St John's Day 2 Results
In the first game of Day 2, of the 2016 St John’s College Rugby festival, Parktown Boys’ High faced a menacing looking Italian side, Viandana 1970. However, the local lads turned on the heat and dotted down seven tries with the star of the show, Madosha Tambwe, who ran in four from fullback. Quite clearly this muscular 18-year-old has a massive future.
In a second match up of the day Hoërskool Nelspruit ran into an inspired Afrikaanse Hoër Seanskool side who dominated from the word go. They kept the lads from Mpumalanga scoreless, while they conversely ran in six tries to record a comprehensive 38 points to nil victory.
Hilton College, just outside Maritzburg has a proud rugby history and that pride came through against the Lions Presidential XV, a team made up of the smaller rugby playing schools in the Golden Lions Rugby Union. Both teams produced 15 points in a very tight first half and after 25 scoreless minutes in the second half Hilton’s inspirational captain, Angus Curtis, slotted the penalty that gave the lads from KZN a narrow victory.
Hosts St John’s College and St John’s College, Harare, produced exactly the same score line at half time (15-all) as the previous game, but this time Lex Slabbert went over for the five-pointer that broke the deadlock and won the game for the home side bringing the supporters to the stand into delirium about the win!
In one of the tightest games in the history of the St John’s College festival, Paul Roos Gynamsium and Hoërskool Monument, produced a thriller. Monument took drinks with a score of 6-3, and flyhalf Damian Willemse converted two penalties while scrumhalf, Tiaan Coetzee, dotted down in the far right hand corner to take the score to 14. And even though PJ Jakobs scored for Monnas it wasn’t enough as Stellenbosch’s pride ran out 14-11 winners.
Paarl Boys’ High and Helpmakaar produced and equally scintillating match, with the Braamfontein school, Helpies, going ahead at the stroke of half-time through a Ruhan Viviers try. The boys from the Western Cape, kept up the pressure and a try from Urgene Johannes in the 13th minute of the second half edged them ahead yet again. As he did on Friday, fullback Gianni Lombard had his kicking boots on and compiled 11 points with some sensational play from the fullback position. That performance and some very stout defence gave the Paarl Boys’ and well deserved 24-17 win.
Results at a Glance
Day 2
Parktown vs Viadana, 39-12
Affi es vs Nelspruit, 38-0
Hilton vs Golden Lions XV, 18-15
St John’s College vs St John’s Harare, 20-15
Paul Roos vs Monument, 14-11
Paarl Boys' High vs Helpmekaar, 24-17
Day 1
Paarl Boys' High vs Golden Lions Invitation XV, 54-0
Monument vs Viadana (Ita), 47-0
Helpmekaar vs St John’s (Harare), 36-30
Paul Roos vs Hilton, 69-6
Affies vs Parktown, 49-7
Nelspruit vs St John’s, 21-5
Fixtures
Day 3, Easter Monday, 28 March 2016
09.00: St John’s Harare vs Golden Lions XV
10.15: Parktown vs Hilton
11.30: St John’s College vs Viadana
12.45: Prep
13.30: Monument vs Helpmekaar
14.45: Paarl Boys' High vs Nelspruit
16.00: Paul Roos vs Affi es
