St Stithians Easter Rugby Festival (17 April)
Bishops 12-38 Helpmekaar
Helpmekaar showed early on that Bishops do not have the forwards to compete come scrum time. However, it was Bishops who scored the first points when Rynard Gordon cut the Helpmekaar's defence in two to run fifty meters for his try. After fifteen minutes of play in the first half, Helpmekaar attacked from a dominant scrum and spread the ball wide to winger Francois Tonkin to level the scores. Following an arm wrestle it was Helpmekaar who combined the power of their big boys with silky handling of their backs to set up camp in Bishop's twenty-two. With four minutes to go, Helpmekaar spread the ball wide from a scrum for winger Xander van Niekerk to score in the corner. Helpmekaar led 12-07 at the halftime break.
Bishops started like a house on fire and capitalised on a mistake by Helpmekaar from the kick-off, and Boytjie Fyfer scored in the corner to level the scores 12-12. Thereafter, Helpmekaar dominated and scored four tries to secure a deserved 38-12 win. Liam Devenier, Xander van Niekerk, Kyle Byleveld and Clinton Cloete were the try scorers.
Hartpury (UK) 10-19 Wynberg
St Charles 38-22 Windhoek High
Michaelhouse 65-14 St Johns (Harare)
St Andrew's College 54-26 Northcliff
St Andrew's replaced Marais Viljoen, who was scheduled to play Northcliff initially and withdrew from the festival.
Northcliff were the first to score when they attacked from a line-break in their own twenty-two to open the scoring after just four minutes. St Andrew's used their forwards to dominate most of the match up front. Their scrummy broke next to a ruck and levelled the score after just eleven minutes of play. St Andrew's added a further three tries to the one of Northcliff to go into the halftime break leading 26-12.
It took St Andrews six minutes in the second half to score their fifth try to extend their lead to 33-12 to which Northcliff replied to six minutes later with their third try. With five minutes to play, Northcliff was still trailing with eleven points, however, thereafter St Andrews added two tries to extend their lead to 54-19. Northcliff scored a late try to cut St Andrew's lead to 54-26, which was the final score.
Hartpury 2ndXV (UK) 31-20 Randpark
St Stithians 32-00 Clifton
St Stithians outplayed Clifton for the first whistle. The Saints already led 25-00 at the halftime break, and due to Clifton upping their defensive effort, they restricted the hosts to only one try in the second half. The try scorers for St Stithians were Oliver Groves (2), Cade Elsey and Louis McAslin.