Results – Standard Bank St Stithians College Easter Festival – Day 1

Kingswood College was playing chess and Clifton was playing checkers in today’s match up as Kingswood pulled off a well-coordinated 45-12 victory.

You can tell when a team is just having fun and that is when things usually go their way.

This was clearly the case for Kingswood today, as they had already put in the work and today was simply time to get creative with it and play around with strategy.

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The way the boys played in unison was like poetry, the ball wouldn’t leave someone’s hands without someone else there to catch it.

Their left wing, Vizi Labase, scored a hat trick. Flyhalf, Praise Matsila, got five conversions through and made it look easier than saying Happy Easter. Their right wing, Sine Brawen, had the most entertaining play of the day when he scored them a try with a chip and chase off the boot.

Sometimes things just come together perfectly, and that’s exactly what happened for Kingswood College today.

Clifton did have some decent defence, with their left wing, Mackenzie Haygarth, notably holding the line shortly before and after the half-time mark.

Josh Kennedy, their inside centre, did also succeed in both conversions. Perhaps his kicking would have stayed at one hundred percent if more chances were provided. Clifton’s gameplay seemed to come together for brief moments of brilliance, however, it was just not enough to contend with a spectacular, polished performance from Kingswood.

Diocesan College turned in a polished ten-try performance against hosts, St Stithians College, to kick-start their Saints Sports Festival with a convincing victory of 66-3.

All areas of play were dominated by the visitors in the opening game of this long-standing annual Festival, with the first try through Western Province XV Craven Week scrumhalf, Hashim Pead,  coming after only thirty seconds on the clock.

As in the first two games of the winter, the coaches introduced a raft of substitutions in the second half of proceedings, thus ensuring that all on the bench had a run at altitude.

Winger Lucca Mynhardt scored a hat-trick of tries. With this resounding win behind them, the players now look ahead to Saturday afternoon’s exciting fixture against Helpmekaar.

Mention must be made of the local ground-staff who ensured that the Baytopp Field was in immaculate condition after all of the recent rain up on the Highveld.

Article written by Zane Louw and Alex Ralston

Scorers: 

Wynberg Boys’ High School 20 (10) – Tries: Amier Adams, Xola Nyali. Conversions: Yaqeen Amed (2)  Penalties: Amed (2). Helpmekaar Kollege 12 (2) – Tries: Junayden Seffeir, Jandre Labuschagne. Conversions: Michael Benzien.

Michaelhouse 29 (7) – Tries: Murray Baker, Luthando Buthelezi, Campbell Ridl, Penalty Try. Conversions: Luke Davidson (2) Penalty: Davidson. St Andrew’s College 22 (8) – Tries: Oliver Myatt-Taylor (2), Joe Wostenholm. Conversions: Jacques Cloete (2). Penalty: Cloete. 

St John’s College (Harare) 29 (21) – Tries: Stefan Kruger, PK Manyakara, Joshua Galant, Thomas Judson, Penalty Try. Conversions: Rory Honey (2) Penalties: Honey. St Alban’s College 26 (15) – Tries: John-Joshua Steenkamp, Alex Yeatman, Ross Van Noordwyk, Luke Sass, Patrick Weir. Conversions: John Verster (3).

Kingswood College 45 (28) – Tries: Vizi Lebase (3), Shingi Manyara, Amazing Verhiwa, Sine Brawn, Appiah Nedzengu. Conversions: Praise Matsila (5). Clifton 12 (7) – Tries: Nathan Shotland, Levi Anastia. Conversion: Jonathan Kennedy.

Diocesan College 66 (38) – Tries: Lucca Mynhardt (3), Merlin Fransman, Hashim Pead, Aidan Norris, Olo Sopotela, Nic Allison, Christian Steward, Kashief Joseph. Conversions: Gilermo Mentoe (5), Shaywan Blankenberg (2), Mynhardt. St Stithians College 3 (3) – Penalty: Chris Anderson.