Villager Sevens washed out

For the first time in 39 years, the Villager Sevens tournament was stopped on Friday because of heavy rain.

Traditionally the Sevens, held after the end of schools fixtures, is a day for foul weather, but this weather was the foulest of them all after the heavy rains of the winter, especially on Thursday and Friday.

The tournament had been reduced in the number of participants and confined only to the main field which has buildings on three sides. It was on the open side that the water mainly gathered and was calf deep at its worst.

The Sevens had reached the quarter-finals, but the school’s coaches and Sevens Committee had a meeting and decided the conditions had become unsafe to continue.

Instead the quarter-finals will be played on Saturday 8 September at Villager Football Club from 10.00, a curtainraiser to the Villager-Tygerberg matches being played in the afternoon.

The eight teams who made it to the quarter-finals are: Bishops, Fish Hoek, Jan van Riebeeck, Rondebosch, SACS, Table View, Temperance, Wynberg