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Friday, 03 September 2010
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A vibrant start to the second day of play on the Lost City golf course brought great challenges to leader teams.  Conditions were manageable where good consistent golf was rewarded with good scores.

The whistle has finally blown on this years school rugby season which has seen some of the top teams playing in over 20 matches during the year. The last weekend saw the three finals of the rugby competition organised for the four southern unions by Die Burger produce three winners - Paarl Gim of Western Province, Augsburg of Boland and Itembelihle of Eastern Province. It was the perfect way for Paarl Gim to cap off a great season which sees them slotting into second place just behind Grey College.

Westville Boys' High 1st XI put on a very confident and motivated team performance against Maritzburg College in front of a home crowd on Saturday. Star player Mayibuye Mthembu and Captain Chad Petterson were back from injury to bolster the strength of the WBHS side.

The South African Schools side on Saturday ran in 14 tries as they comprehensively outclassed the Namibian Under-19 in their 92-21 victory at the Raiders Rugby Club in Johannesburg. The hosts dominated their opponents in all facets of play. They were superior up front, controlled the breakdown and spread the ball out wide to their speedy wings throughout the game.

Murray McDougall from Kearsney College returns home this weekend after winning a bronze medal at the Youth Olympics in Singapore. He made the finals in all events and clocked some of his fastest times, placing thirdMurray_McDougall_swimming_-_Copy in the 100m relay, to win Kearsney's first ever medal at the Youth Olympics.  He also came 5th in the 50m backstroke, 7th in the 100m fly and 6th in the 100m boys' medley relay.

Chad le Clos scored again on Monday as South Africa took two more medals in the pool at the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore, bringing the medal count to three. The Westville High School product won the 200m 16-08-2010-17-08-06_937264bindividual medley by nearly two full seconds in 2min 00.68sec to add a gold medal to the silver he claims in the 400m freestyle on Sunday.

That's it the school rugby season is has come to an end and if you thought the final games were going to be a bunch of tired players going through the motions of a mammoth season think again. There were several dramatic finishes over the weekend which once again highlighted the wealth of talent in the country.So let's take a look at the Western Cape for a moment and there we saw some epic matches being staged and they could not have been closer. Take a look!

No change at all in the top 10 which is looking very stable as the teams go into the final throws of the season. However there is still some positions that could change as some of the other teams are very close. Glenwood have the final attempt to spoil Grey College's 100% record for the season and they are looking to reverse last years result.

Team South Africa wing their way into history when they head east for Singapore on Monday. The occasion is the inaugural Youth Olympics to be held between 14-26 August and the young South Africans will be part of a ground-breaking experience at this new multi-sport event.

Gimmies have tried gamely in the past few seasons to get back to winning ways but have had to play second fiddle to Boishaai and that trend looked like continuing this year although Gimmies found themselves ranked three places higher than their rivals this time.

Photo: Packpage Pix Team SA sprint sensation Wayde van Niekerk is officially one of the top 8 fastest junior speedsters over 200 metres in the world, following his performance in the semi-finals at the 13th IAAF World Junior Championships in a rainy Moncton, Canada.

THE SA Football Association has suggested that suburban schools that do not offer soccer as an extramural sport be forced to introduce it.

Three of the most promising young players in the country have signed contracts to play the next two years for the Springbok Sevens, the South African Rugby Union announced today.

Any coach will tell you that the hardest part of the job is limiting their squad when there is so little to distinguish one player from another. Much has been said of the depth in South African rugby at the moment and DSC_7179interestingly enough, the current batch of Springboks stood head and shoulders above the rest during their stints at Craven Week.

THE South African Football Association (Safa) is to announce plans to "revolutionise" school-level soccer development before the end of the World Cup, Safa vice-president Mandla "Shoes" Mazibuko said yesterday.
SA became the first host country in the 80-year history of the World Cup to be knocked out in the preliminary stage on Tuesday, when the national team won 2-1 against France, but failed to go through to the next rounds, prompting public debate about the level of development.