SACS Euphoria
In the fourth match of the second day, Affies took on SACS and it looked like men against boys, as Affies out-sized and out-weighed the smaller Cape Town team. But in what developed into a fantastic game for the large crowd, one of the festival's most fancied sides were upset by the Western Cape newcomers.
Despite Affies having both territorial and possession advantage, the SACS boys tackled and tackled. They held Affies to 7-3 at half-time and eventually took the game 13-10 in a mammoth defensive match.
Affies opened the scoring with a try by left wing Christian Strydom, converted by flyhalf Ruan de Swardt for a 7-0 lead. SACS closed the gap with a penalty by captain Jordan Chait for a 7-3 half-time score.
In the second half it was Chait who again converted a penalty to close the gap to just one point. Affies came agonisingly close again to crossing the whitewash but brave defence and putting bodies on the line prevented any further tries. Affies did increase their lead to 10-6 with a penalty in the last quarter by De Swardt, but nobody could have guessed the final outcome.
The bounce of the ball favoured SACS as they put in one last effort. Centre Ciaran Dayaram couldn't believe it when the ball bounced into his hands and he saw space in front of him and had the pace to score under the poles, giving an easy conversion attempt for Chait.
The unexpected happened and SACS beat one of the top school sides in the country 13-10, to go unbeaten into the final day of the festival.
Scorers:
For Affies:
Try: C Strydom
Con: R de Swardt
Pen R de Swardt
For SACS:
Try: C Dayaram
Con: J Chait
Pens: J Chiat 2
Teams
Affies: 15 Henco Jordaan, 14 Janco Booysen, 13 Louritz van der Schyff, 12 Eddie Fouché, 11 Christian Strydom, 10 Ruan de Swardt, 9 Jack Hart, 8 Lombard Grobler, 7 Eduan Lubbe, 6 Phillip Krause, 5 Juan Basson, 4 Ruben van Heerden, 3 Niell Bezuidenhout, 2 Schalk Erasmus, 1 Jano Espag.
Replacements: 16 Viaan Mong, 17 Cabous Eloff, 18 Henk Pretorius, 19 Vic Meyer, 20 Divan Henning, 21 Jacobus van Staden, 22 Pieter Coetser, 23 Arno van Wyk.
SACS: 15 Athi Gazi, 14 Reitumetse Mogoje, 13 Ciaran Dayaram, 12 Liam Abrahams, 11 Thomas Waterkeyn, 10 Jordan Chait (captain), 9 Rau-Ees Arendse, 8 Alex Halvorsen, 7 Tommy Posen, 6 Dylan Hadzigrigoriou, 5 Cameron Laurenson, 4 Elliot Avery, 3 Riyaaz Semaar, 2 Lance Steytler, 1 Sihle Lonzi.
Replacements: 16 Liam Larkan, 17 Sebastian Schultz, 18 James Brewer, 19 Dane Brouwer, 20 Michael Haasbroek, 21 Nick Redelinghuys, 22 Matthew de Villiers, 23 Duncan Ferguson.
