The Western Cape and Eastern Cape had a slow start to their season with not many games played while Gauteng schools closed a lot fewer games were played than a week ago. Most of the schools had started their travels to the various rugby festivals to take place during the next two weeks. Next week will be an action-packed week that starts Monday already.
Central Region
Fichardtpark season from hell continued as they suffered their 3rd loss in 4 games.
Results:
Fichardtpark 14-36 Aliwal North
Eastern Cape
Dale College became Marlow's 3rd victim as Marlow is becoming an early favourite in the region. Dale unfortunately does not have a macro pack of forwards that could provide their backline quality ball to run the defence of their opponents to pieces.
Brandwag (Uitenhage) used their massive pack of forwards to dominate Grey High School and pushed the "favourites" until the last minutes of the game. Unfortunately, a loose pass here and there cost Brandwag the game.
In an extremely physical battle, the host Graeme College and Selborne College played to an exciting draw with both teams making early-season mistakes which could have changed the results.
A wonderful rugby day at Graeme College just confirmed that some exciting but brutal games will be played in the Eastern Cape in 2022.
Results:
Cambridge 07-24 Muir
Dale 12-31 Marlow
Graeme 07-07 Selbourne
Grey HS 31-27 Brandwag (Uitenhage)
Hudson Park 21-14 Nico Malan
Kingswood 14-03 Queen's
Pearson 64-05 Mary Waters
St Andrew's 22-24 Framesby
KwaZulu-Natal
Not any surprises here with most of the results as expected. DHS is seemingly finding their feet and just lost to Kearsney College in an exciting match.
Hilton College's big win against Northwood may be it bit of a surprise, suggesting they could be having their best season in a while.
Results:
Clifton 17-43 Westville
Glenwood 17-10 Michaelhouse
Hilton 54-05 Northwood
Kearsney 24-20 DHS
Maritzburg College 45-07 St Charles
NoordVaal
The Affies vs Helpmekaar demanded a lot of attention and apart from early-season excitement, it was clear that a lot of work is still to be done before the start of the Noord/Suid Festival hosted at Affies.
Marais Viljoen's season out of hell continued against Oos Moot after losing to Potch Volkies a week earlier with 14-21. Marais Viljoen will play in the "NoordVaal Cup" competition for the first time in 2022.
Pretoria Boys High suffered a close 10-16 loss to Jeppe, which may be put the score of Garsies against Pretoria Boys High in perspective.
Results:
NWU Prestige
Die Anker 31-07 Jeugland
Heidelberg Volkies 26-22 Zwartkop
Oos Moot 34-20 Marais Viljoen
Oosterlig 26-28 Potch Gimnasium
Potch Volkies 24-24 Lichtenburg
Other
Centurion 47-12 Hans Moore
Delmas 22-40 Oosterland
Delmas 61-00 Bergvlam
Driehoek 19-12 Uplands College
Edenglen 05-00 Akasia
Frans du Toit 19-23 Midstream College
Hans Moore 19-08 Benoni High
Helpmekaar 14-21 Affies
Heronbridge 10-14 Kagiso
Heronbridge 00-12 Lowveld High
Jeugland 07-31 Die Anker
King Davids Linksfield 08-07 Wilgers
Krugerdorp High 12-39 Penrynn College
Krugersdorp High 00-24 Sutherland
Krugersdorp High 00-24 Edenvale
Leeuwenhof 36-06 Sutherland
Noordheuwel 57-13 Hugenote
Pta Boys High 10-16 Jeppe
Rob Ferreira 14-11 Wonderboom
Sasolburg HTS 38-24 CBC Boksburg
St John's 21-07 St Albans
Wilgers 31-03 Lowveld High
Witbank HTS 22-20 John Vorster HTS
Western Cape
Paarl Gimnasium were made to work hard against Stellenberg, while the carefully planned opening games at the Wynberg Festival ensured good wins for the favourites.
Bishops win against Duineveld was expected and put the 00-86 loss against Grey College two weeks ago into perspective.
The family fight went the way of Hans Coetzee as his Drostdy HTS got a good win against Durbanville that replaced Coetzee as the head coach with his son in law Peter Schutte.
Rondebosch's win over St Benedict's was impressive while Wynberg also impressed with their hard running against the Johannesburg visitors, St Stithians.
Fixtures:
Bellville HTS 45-00 Langa RC
Bishops 50-05 Duineveld
Curro Roodeplaat 05-00 Tygervalley
DF Malan 15-25 Charlie Hofmeyer
Drostdy HTS 26-00 Durbanville
Langa 00-45 Bellville High
Robertson 20-15 Langenhoven Gim
Rondebosch 52-00 St Benedict's
SACS 35-00 Soweto
Stellenberg 06-12 Paarl Gim
Trinityhouse 31-10 Kagiso
Vishoek 26-17 Jan van rRebeeck
Wynberg 45-07 St Stithians