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The 2018 school rugby season is still very much in its embryonic stage and the form and fortunes of many teams are bound to fluctuate during the course of a very busy season.

It was billed as the ‘season final’ as two of the country’s most successful teams in 2018 locked horns in what turned out to be a bitterly close affair.

This Week’s U14 Top 100 Rankings is virtually unchanged from last week although Grey High School has managed to gain a place in the top 10.

The powerful hockey culture that emanates from Jeppe was well seen this year as their U16 team set the pace for the better part of the season to end deservedly as the leading team in the country.

Bishops managed to take a step up on this week’s U15 Top 100 Rugby rankings thanks in part to a storming win over St Andrews College last weekend.

It was a motivated Menlo Park who took on the best in South Africa at the FNB Top 12 Schools Tournament hosted by Oranje Meisies and ended up champions when the dust had settled.

Bishops manage to time their run to the top of the U16 Top 100 Rankings well with a good victory over St.Andrews College and in so doing force their way into the top 5 zone on this week’s rankings.

Selborne College determined to finish the season on a high extracted all they had to blunt the challenge of Grey High School last week and is so doing consolidate their position in the top five of this week’s First XV Top 100 Rankings.

There was some steady progress up the Girl’s Hockey Top 70 Rankings this week by St. Mary’s Waverley who recorded some valuable wins at this stage of the season.