Selborne and Grey College continue to impress at Tony Godding Festival
Grey College and Selborne College put on clinical performances on the third day of the Belgotex Tony Godding Festival on Saturday to remain unbeaten at the four-day event.
The two sides’ showings the festival – jointly hosted by Clarendon, Selborne, Cambridge, Stirling, and Merrifield –should send out a warning to their future opposition, with the pair combining for 27 goals with only one conceded on day three.
Selborne College’s captain and SA u17 hockey star, Tre’ Gilbert, missed out on the goals on Friday when he and his team defeated St Andrew’s School 4-0. On Saturday morning, Gilbert wiped away the dirt from his stick and nailed a hat-trick.
Up against Woodridge College, Selborne powered their way to a 6-0 victory, with Gibert responsible for half of their big goal haul. The other half belonged to Cade Kock.
The Amathole provincial player also scored against St Andrew’s in Selborne’s previous outing, so he leads the East London school with four in two matches at the Tony Godding Festival.
Pearson headed into day two on the back of a loss to the on-fire Grey College on the opening day. They were down, but not out, and Queen’s College, beaten 3-1 by Woodridge the previous day, presented an opportunity for Ignatius Malgraff’s boys to get back on track.
Sensing an opportunity, the Gqeberha-based outfit grabbed hold of it and subjected Queen’s to a 4-0 loss to add to their misery. Later in the day, St Andrew’s School, who have played one of the tougher schedules at the festival, delivered a good performance to hold Pearson to a 1-1 draw.
The schedule, though, was not kind to Queen’s College. They had to contend with Grey College after Pearson, and it didn’t go well, with the Bloemfontein boys racing away to an 8-0 victory. Grey continued on their merry way later in the day against Hudson Park, romping to a 6-0 win.
Coach Wayne Coetzee and his charges have been very impressive thus far in 2024, and they’re unbeaten and untied, but tougher challenges lie ahead of them.
Coming up from 20-23 March, Grey will join some of South Africa’s traditional hockey powerhouses as the Nomads u18 Tournament, which will be hosted at Maritzburg College, on Pape’s Astro, which hosted its first-ever floodlit game on Friday night.
They will, most certainly, not be underprepared and they will be full of confidence that they can continue their winning form in Pietermaritzburg.
Grey College completes their Tony Godding schedule with a showdown against St Andrew’s College. The school from Makhanda has quietly gone about defeating their opposition throughout the event – recording a 3-0 win over Voortrekker and a 5-0 defeat of Merrifield on Saturday – but their toughest test lies ahead of them.
Dale College finishes with a game against Linden High. Their resurgence continued on Saturday with a 4-3 win over Voortrekker.
Results
Hudson 0-3 Grey College, Merrifield 4-0 Duineveld, Grey High 4-1 St Andrew’s School, Witteberg 0-3 Stirling, Selborne 6-0 Woodridge, Queen’s 0-4 Pearson, St Andrew’s College 3-0 Voortrekker, Curro Waterstone 1-0 Westering, Framesby 2-3 Duineveld, Kingswood 1-0 Linden, Stirling 3-0 Witteberg, Queen’s College 0-8 Grey College, Dale 4-3 Voortrekker, Kingswood 1-0 Witteberg, Framesby 0-0 Krugersdorp, Cambridge 0-0 Alex Rd, Alex Rd 2-0 Montana, Cambridge 0-4 Woodridge, Stirling 0-0 Krugersdorp, Pearson 1-1 St Andrew’s School, Hudson 0-6 Grey College, Westering 1 – 0 Curro Waterstone, Selborne 4-1 Linden, St Andrew’s College 5-0 Merrifield.
Fixtures
Sunday
08:15 – Framesby vs Montana; 08:15 – Alex Rd vs Krugersdorp; 08:15 – Westering vs Duineveld; 08:15 – Queen’s College vs Kingswood College; 09:30 – Grey College vs St Andrew’s College; 09:30 – St Andrew’s School vs Curro Waterstone; 09:30 – Stirling vs Grey High; 10:45 – Selborne College vs Voortrekker; 10:45 – Merrifield vs Witteberg; 12:00 – Dale College vs Linden High; 12:00 – Cambridge vs Pearson; 13:15 – Hudson Park vs Woodridge.
