Wins for Grey and Selborne College in the Eastern Cape
Grey High School and Selborne College asserted their supremacy in the Eastern Cape, picking up victories over St Andrew’s College, and Cambridge High School respectively over the weekend.
Grey travelled to Makhanda for the clash and won 2-1, while Selborne thumped Cambridge 6-0 away from home.
Those results were expected, as they have been the standout teams in the province this year, although St Andrew’s has not been far behind them. In fact, all three posted perfect records at the Tony Godding Festival at the start of the season.
Grey and Selborne are unbeaten this season in their respective regions and, despite both tasting defeat at the Hibbert Shield earlier this month, they have continued to make good progress.
Heading into the clash in Makhanda, coach Andrew Beynon’s Grey side had racked up three impressive performances in succession, beating Queen’s College 6-0, Woodridge College 6-1, and Pearson High School 7-1.
St Andrew’s, who have enjoyed a strong season, were always going to ask questions of the Gqeberha side, and they made it tough on the visitors.
Grey, however, is a side that’s managed to find answers throughout their campaign, and they, once more, produced the goods when it counted, scoring through Logan Goddard-Ford and the lively Luke Tait.
Tait has been on a rich goal scoring run in recent matches, including scoring a hattrick against Queen’s on Grey’s reunion weekend. He’ll take that confidence into the Eastern Province A side, which is set to do battle at this year’s SASHOC National Week in Bloemfontein next month.
The clash was also Grey’s last of the term. Their next action is on 12 July, when they host York High School.
East London’s Selborne College comprehensively outplayed Cambridge High away from home.
Last week, coach KJ Friend’s side dominated Dale College, thumping the side from Qonce 10-1.
Against Cambridge, they picked up from where they left off. This time around, Waeden Plaatjes scored a hattrick, skipper Tre’ Gilbert contributed a double, and Kungothando Macanda added another to complete the 6-0 drubbing.
Selborne face a much tougher challenge next weekend when they take on St Andrew’s College.
Other matches
On Friday afternoon, Woodridge College scored a 2-1 win over Victoria Park in the first match of the weekend.
Hudson Park, after a lengthy break, was back in action, and travelled to Komani to face Queen’s College.
That clash ended in a 2-2 draw, with Ayola Rubushe and the multitalented Dante May scoring for the East London side. Bevaneo Maytham and Brett Hoffmann struck for the home side.
Kingswood College also picked up an impressive win away from home, scoring five unanswered goals against Westering High.
RESULTS
Queen’s College 2-2 Hudson Park
St Andrew’s College 1-2 Grey High
Cambridge High 0-6 Selborne College
Westering High School 0-5 Kingswood College
