Western Province rules u14 IPT
Western Province claimed top honours in both the boys’ and girls’ u14 events at the Schools Water Polo South Africa Inter-Provincial Tournament in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
Western Province A beat Central Gauteng A 7-5 in the boys’ final, and Western Province A shut down a high-powered KwaZulu-Natal in the girls’ final, winning 5-3.
Boys
The Capetonians carried some confidence into the final after a hard-fought 6-5 win over the side they were up against, Central Gauteng A, in a key Group B game. Until the title decider, that was the home team’s only loss, although they had needed a penalty shootout to get by KwaZulu-Natal A in the semi-finals.
With the win in the final in St David’s Marist Inanda‘s Fourvière Pool, WP A completed an unbeaten run to the title.
KwaZulu-Natal was surely pleased to have both of their teams reach the semi-finals. It must have stung a little, though, to have them play one another for third place on Wednesday after both lost in the final four. Victory went the way of KZN A by an 11-5 margin.
Nelson Mandela Bay signed off in style, keeping their neighbours, Buffalo City, scoreless in the fifth-place playoff, which ended 5-0.
Western Province B ended seventh after a 10-6 defeat of Zimbabwe, while Central Gauteng B placed ninth following a 6-4 win over Northerns A, for whom Matthew King scored twice. He finished with 12 goals, the joint-fourth highest scorer in the tournament.
William King, though, topped the goal-scoring charts, finishing with 11 more goals than KZN’s Cooper Morrison, who filled second place. King had 28 and Morrison 17.
Northerns B dealt Eastern Gauteng a 6-3 loss to finish eleventh.
Girls
In a tight arm wrestle in which KwaZulu-Natal A‘s Ella Macqueen was the only player to score more than one goal – she scored two – Western Province A held off KZN A to claim the girls’ gold, also in St David’s Fourvière Pool.
With that win, they ended KZN’s clean record and kept theirs intact.
Central Gauteng A, beaten 10-5 by KZN A in the group stage, before losing out in a penalty shootout to WP A in the semi-finals, cruised to a 10-3 win over KZN B to finish third.
Zimbabwe powered their way to a 10-7 victory over Western Province B in the fifth-place playoff, while Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) ended seventh after a 7-4 win over Eastern Gauteng. Grace Thomas scored a hat-trick for NMB and Erin Caminsky achieved the same feat for Easterns.
Ninth went to Buffalo City after an 8-2 success against Eden Districts, and Central Gauteng B overran Northerns 13-1 to end eleventh.
Despite being kept off the scoresheet in the final, KZN A’s Ella Chalupsky was comfortably the tournament’s top goal scorer, striking 22 times. Zimbabwe’s Danni McCoun and Emma Loubser, of Eden Districts, tied for second with 15 goals each.
RESULTS
Boys
11th: Northerns B 6: Ryan Diack (2), Harrison Nass (2), Rikus Jankowitz (1), Daniel Botha (1). Eastern Gauteng 3: Nicholas de Beer (2), Wian Booysen (1).
9th: Central Gauteng B 6: Blake Jacobs (2), Prince Shiwundlana (1), Joshua Bennett (1), Ross Anderson (1), Luke Taylor (1). Northerns A 4: William King (2), Hermanus Rossouw (1), Jurgen Crevits (1).
7th: Western Province B 10: Dieter von Finckenstein (3), Ari Bulmer (1), Luke Lawlor (1), Robert Katz (1), John Tosi (1), Mikaeel Jacobs (1), Casey Muller (1), Josh Morris (1). Zimbabwe 6: Alexander Tivadar (2), Watipa Zvenyika (1), Grayson Smith (1), Daryl Chiyangwa (1), Shane Winterboer (1).
5th: Nelson Mandela Bay 5: Bjorn Maree (2), Harrison Rosser (1), William Newborn (1), Michael de Beer (1), Buffalo City 0.
3rd: KwaZulu-Natal A 11: Cooper Morrison (2), Isaac Mvulana (2), Cruz Marks (1), Jonty Mun-Gavin (1), Mason Allan (1), Noah Brown (1), Luke Barendse (1), Matthew Warner (1), Thomas Ludwig (1). KwaZulu-Natal B 5: Jack Hill (1), Rupert Keeton (1), Matt Swan (1), Callan Botha (1), Zachariah Hopf (1).
Final: Western Province A 7: Finlay Hannigan (2), Mohamed Meyers (2), Matthew Roach (1), Oliver Muller (1), Brett van Schoor (1), Central Gauteng A 5: Sven Stander (1), Daniel Scott (1), Noah van den Berg (1), Ashton Eblen (1), Liam McJannet (1).
Girls
11th: Central Gauteng B 13: Rachel Walsh (3), Jemma Cederwall (2), Ashleigh Lang (2), Abigail Pacheco (2), Ella-Rose Fuller (1), Ella Savage (1), Ivana Meyer (1), Sanyu Mahologu (1). Northerns 1: Niah Durand (1).
9th: Buffalo City 8: Thandi Bosman (2), Dakota Cumming (2), Mackenzie Abrams (1), Tanita Pickering (1), Hannah Schenk (1), Khwezi Magobongo (1). Eden Districts 2: Klara Loubser (1), Oreneile Masike (1).
7th: Nelson Mandela Bay 7: Grace Thomas (3), Arabella Duggan (1), Kara-Linn van Niekerk (1), Georgie Dalling (1). Eastern Gauteng 4: Erin Caminsky (3), Amber Visser (1).
5th: Zimbabwe 10: Gabriella Borcherds (2), Emily Nisbett (2), Danni McCoun (2), Tassia Kaschula (1), Ella Passaportis (1), Catia Maio (1), Mwakawashe Mafunga (1). Western Province B 7: Elizabeth Whitfield (2) Isabella Kemp-White (2), Claudi Böttger (1), Jessica Durrant (1), Olivia Mundy (1).
3rd: Central Gauteng A 10: Taylor-Shay Williams (3), Zoe Zondi (2), Isabella West (1), Kwenza Vilakazi (1), Cassiah-Jade Cabral (1), Lucy Berry (1), Alyssa Pasqualie (1). KwaZulu-Natal B 3: Eva Berichon (1), Alexia Germanus (1), Sage Moodie (1).
Final: Western Province A 5: Ella Steenkamp (1), Sasha O’Neill (1), Sienah Styles (1), Jaime Smith (1), Lily Latimer (1). KwaZulu-Natal A 3: Lara Macqueen (2), Cristina van der Walt (1).
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