St Mary’s Waverley Hockey Festival: Menlopark moves to top of Pool A
The second day of the St Mary’s Waverley Hockey Festival proved to be challenging for some of day one’s front runners, with Hoërskool Waterkloof and St Anne’s Diocesan College falling down the standings.
Waterkloof didn’t fall too far, though, finishing in second spot in Pool A after losing one match, drawing two, and winning two, but St Anne’s dramatically tumbled to third in Pool D. The KwaZulu-Natal side mustered only one victory on Friday, along with two draws, and a loss.
Meanwhile, Die Hoërskool Menlopark stormed to the top of Pool A after a dominating run on Friday.
With strong performances both in attack and defence, they brushed aside Penryn College 4-0 and edged out Gqeberha’s Pearson High School 2-1.
In a big Pretoria derby, they claimed a 1-0 win over Omari Pienaar Geyer’s Waterkloof, while they also shared a goalless draw with the St Mary’s Festival XI.
The victories solidified Menlopark’s status as a serious contender for the title. With momentum on their side, they’ll be in the spotlight in the next round of the festival.
In Pool D, Oranje took over at the summit of the group from St Anne’s, who had scored three wins from three outings on Friday.
Oranje, the seven-time champions, were boosted by a surprisingly comfortable 5-1 victory over Herschel and a 1-0 win over Kingsmead College.
They bagged another point in a 1-1 draw with St Anne’s and one more from a goalless stalemate against Paarl Gimnasium.
Gim finished in second position, followed by St Anne’s and Durban’s Our Lady of Fatima. Both Gim and Our Lady of Fatima bagged two wins and two draws on Friday.
RESULTS
POOL A
DGC 1-0- Menlopark
St Mary’s Festival XI 0-1 TWC
Penryn 0-2 Waterkloof
Somerset College 0-1 Pearson
Waterkloof 0-0 DGC
St Mary’s Festival XI 0-1 Pearson
TWC 1-1 Somerset College
Penryn 0-4 Menlopark
Somerset College 0-0 St Mary’s Festival XI
Menlopark 1-0 Waterkloof
Pearson 0-0 DGC
Penryn 0-0 TWC
Waterkloof 3-0 St Mary’s Festival XI
Menlopark 2-1 Pearson
DGC 1-0 TWC
Somerset College 1-0 Penryn
POOL D
Paarl Girls’ High 0-2 Our Lady of Fatima
St Anne’s 2-0 Kingsmead
Herschel 1-1 Collegiate
Oranje 0-0 Paarl Gim
Our Lady of Fatima 0-0 Herschel
Paarl Gim 0-0 St Anne’s
Paarl Girls’ High 0-2 Collegiate
Oranje 1-0 Kingsmead
Paarl Gim 2-1 Herschel
Kingsmead 0-1 Paarl Girls’ High
Collegiate 1-1 Our Lady of Fatima
Oranje 1-1 St Anne’s
Paarl Girls’ High 0-1 Paarl Gim
Kingsmead 0-2 Collegiate
Our Lady of Fatima 1-0 St Anne’s
Herschel 1-5 Oranje
