Overview Sporting Achievements
This weekend saw Maritzburg College host the 2024 Nashua 7s rugby tournament at our Family Day. There was plenty of excellent sporting action with Glenwood winning the U15 section, and St Charles College taking the U18 trophy.
A massive congratulations to the College 1st XI soccer team, who are the 2024 Raw Cup Champions, beating DHS on penalties after a 4-4 draw at fulltime.
There was also plenty of other sporting action with the 1st XI cricket team taking part in the St David’s Fasken Timecricket Festival in Johannesburg, as well as canoe polo and cycling taking place over the weekend.
Soccer
On Friday and Saturday, 16 soccer teams travelled to Durban for a long-contested rivalry between two of KZN’s oldest and proudest boys schools. The 1st team fixture was for the Raw Cup – one of the oldest sporting rivalries in South African school’s sport (since 1889.). With 16 very tightly fought matches taking place at DHS, College won seven, drew 1 and lost eight.
1st team report (Nic Haswell, MIC Soccer)
This year’s battle for the Cup was enthralling, with both teams attacking at will. The boys and parents in the stands at DHS were kept thoroughly entertained and at the full-time whistle, a score of 4 – 4 meant they were in for more with a penalty shootout being needed to decide who would get their hands on the long sought after Cup. The College penalty takers kept their nerve to score from the spot and relied on their outstanding goalkeeper, CJ Sukraj to make crucial saves and emerged victorious by 4 – 2, reclaiming the Raw Cup in the process.
RESULTS vs DHS:
U14A lost 2-1, U14B won 1-0, U14C drew 0-0, U14D won 3-2
U15A lost 4-2, U15B won 1-0, U15C won 2-1, U15D lost 3-1
U16A lost 3-0, U16B won 4-0, U16C lost 2-1, U16D lost 2-1
4ths lost 3-2, 3rds lost 1-0, 2nds won 2-0, 1sts drew 4-4 (won 4-2 on penalties.)
Best wishes to College’s 1st XI, who beat Westville in the Cowie Cup semi-final, and face Port Shepstone in the final later this week. College is currently ranked first in the SA School Sport Football rankings.
Rugby 7s
College’s U15 and U17 rugby 7s teams competed in the Nashua 7s tournament hosted by the school over the weekend.
The U15 team went through to the final and fought hard against a strong Glenwood side, eventually going down 26-31.
Cricket
College’s 1st XI travelled up to St David’s for the Fasken TimeCricket 2024 festival. Both their matches ended in draws after some outstanding individual efforts. Congratulations to Llewellyn Sutherland who was named Batsman of the Festival.
College’s first match was against St John’s, and College opened the batting, scoring 247/6. St John’s replied with 221/9 declared. On day 2 College declared at 243/7 and St John’s replied with 188/9. The match was drawn.
The second match was against Noordheuwel. College won the toss and opted to bat first soring 187 all out. Noordheuwel replied with 225 all out. Day 2 saw College set Noordheuwel a target of 208 in 35 overs. The match also ended in a draw.
Cycling
In the last race of the KZN school’s MTB cycling series, College’s Luke Newlands once again won the Junior Men’s category, retaining the category leader jersey throughout the series. Brent Foster took second position on the Junior Male category podium for the third time in a row. Well done boys!
Overall results:
Junior Men’s category:
1st L. Newlands 2nd B. Foster 4th C. Sellick
5th M. Jewaskiewitz 8th M. Barnardo 10th H. McIntyre 12th G. Jordan
Youth Men’s category:
4th K. Searle 7th D. Janneker 13th B. Fourie 26th K. Leonard 27th C. Wood 47th A. Naidoo
49th H. Dlamuka
Sub-junior High boy’s category:
2nd C. Baxter
Canoeing
College canoeists competed in the annual School Canoe Polo Champs at Lions River over the weekend. Maritzburg College’s A team finished 1st while the College B team took silver.
Maritzburg College A 1st Matthew Van Heerden Jack Odell
James Gotte Scott Venniker Simon Norton
Maritzburg College B 2nd
David Botha Joshua Craig Matthew Rawson Brett Gotte
Fynn Venniker Chris Craig Todd Stone
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