Hockey Rankings

As the race to get invited to Paarl Gym’s U16 Top Schools Tournament heats up we have a very congested top half of the table with most of the strong schools in contention.

St Annes power their way up the rankings with a dominant display at the ISSF Festival and now find themselves knocking down the door to get in amongst the top 10 leading teams.

Jeppe did what they needed to do to ensure that they are at the top of this week’s Boy’s First Team Rankings and that was to win their matches against KES and Waterkloof.

St Stithians and Menlopark enjoyed a highly successful Easter Weekend as they kept their unbeaten run unharmed and in so doing closed the gap on Oranje Meisies who still hold onto the top spot on this week’s Rankings.

Bloemhof put in one of their finest results of the season when they took on and beat the high-flying Herschel team which has resulted in a minor reshuffling of teams on this week’s Girls Hockey Belgotex Sports Top 70 Rankings.

Pretoria Boys High makes their first appearance on the Belgotex Sports Top 70 rankings this week as they slot into positon No.3 on the table after returning from their successful tour to Malaysia.

Pretoria Boys High, who had been inching up the rankings in an attempt to force a coup at the top of the table, suffered a narrow loss to St Johns College over the weekend that has seen them lose a bit of footing on this week’s Belgotex Sports Boy’s Top 70 Rankings.

Herschel remains the leading Girls U16 Hockey team in the country following their brace of victories over the last week and they certainly seem to be a team who is difficult to beat.

A new look to this week’s Boy’s Hockey Top 70 Rankings with Jeppe finally clinching the top spot from Maritzburg College by the narrowest of margins.

We have a very stable top ten at this stage of the season with St. Mary’s Kloof still narrowly ahead of Herschel and Oranje Meisies on this week’s Girls Top 60 Hockey Rankings.