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South side strikes again on the second day of SASHOC Tournament

By Bronwyn Naidoo , in Hockey | News , at 2023-06-26 Tags:

Continuing yesterday’s southern power streak at the u18 SASHOC national tournament from the Southern Gauteng A team, the under 18 A Southern Free State girls team, coached by Gyster van Schalkwyk, secured their place on top of the pool A standings today with a win in their game against the Northern Free State team. 

The North and South teams went head-to-head at 14:40 where Southern Free State player Khanya Mtimkulu scored the opening field goal two minutes into the game.

Thereafter followed another two goals in the first chukka by the number one individual goal scorer after day two of the tournament, Taheera Augousti, with a field goal in the eighth minute and another goal scored from a penalty corner in the 13th minute of the game, putting Augousti as an individual in the lead with four goals in the three matches already played and the Southern Free State A team with a stable three-nil lead before half time.

Goal number four was scored by the team in the third chukka with a field goal from Reatile Pitso, in the 35th minute. An impressive penalty stroke scored by Nadine Claassens, in the 49th minute and the last goal was scored by Jordan Fisher, where the team secured a clean sweep against the Northerns Free State team with a six- nil victory.

In other matches Amathole A put up a competitive game against Northern Gauteng A, beating the Northern Gauteng team with only one goal difference (3-2) and stole two goals in the very last chukka against Mpumalanga A winning by 2-0 in the last game of the day.

An exciting fixture to look out for in tomorrows program will be where the Southern Free State A team takes on Boland A, a team that has beaten both Southern Gauteng and Northern Free State A, the teams will kick of at 10:25 at UFS Field two. 

Results | Day 2

KZN Coastal A 3 (Thando Makhanya(2), Tara Pakendorf); Mpumalanga A 1 (Tlangelani Ndlovu).

Western Province A 1 (Mia Poole); KZN Inland A 0.

Amathole A 3 (Kaylin Hendriks, Braunwyn Martin, Michelle Barnes); Northern Gauteng 2 (Mmamorena Manthata, Danielle McCann)

Eastern Province A 1 (Tiara Finnis); Southern Gauteng A 0.

Southern Free State A 6 (Taheera Augousti (2), Khanya Mtimkulu, Reatile Pitso, Nadine Claassens, Jordan Fisher); Northern Free State 0.

Boland A 1 (Arisha van Niekerk); Southern Gauteng A 0.

KZN Coastal A 1 (Elizabeth Anderson); Western Province A 0.

Amathole A 2 (Kate van Heerden, Michelle Barnes); Mpumalanga A 0.

Fixtures | Day 3

09:00 – Southern Gauteng A vs Southern Gauteng B
10:25 – Southern Free State A vs Boland A
11:50 – Eastern Province A vs Northern Free State
13:15 – KZN Coastal A vs KZN Inland A
14:40 – Western Province A vs KZN Inland A
16:05 – Northern Gauteng A vs Mpumalanga
17:30 – Southern Gauteng B vs Boland A

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