Westville Girls’ to host hockey challenge
Nearing the halfway mark, Westville Girls’ High School hosts the Highway Regional, the fifth regional out of 10 in the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge on their astro turf this Saturday.
WESTVILLE Girls’ High School will host the Highway Regional, the fifth regional out of 10 in the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge, on their astro turf on Saturday, March 21.
Eight hopeful teams will walk onto the pitch in the hopes of claiming the Highway trophy.
One-time winners, Westville Girls’ High School, will lead the charge with home ground advantage, taking on Curro Hillcrest, Gelofte Skool, Hillcrest High School, Kloof High School, Pinetown High School, defending champs, St Mary’s DSG, and Thomas More College.
The teams will be split into two pools for this tournament, with St Mary’s DSG, Hillcrest, Westville Girls’ and Gelofte being drawn in Pool A and Thomas More, Curro, Kloof and Pinetown filling out Pool B. All games will be a quickfire 20 minutes long. Once the pool games are wrapped up, the teams will meet in a cross-pool playoff, with the semi-finalists playing an extra game.
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Games tip off at 07:30 with the defending champions, St Mary’s DSG, taking on Gelofte Skool in the opening fixture. St Mary’s have lifted the Highway Regional trophy 14 times and have won the overall title on seven occasions since the tournament began in 2011.
Four teams have secured their berth at the Grand Finals that will take place at St Mary’s DSG in July. They are Our Lady of Fatima (DBN North Regional), followed by Amanzimtoti High School (DBN South Regional), St John’s DSG (PMB Central Regional) and St Anne’s Diocesan College (PMB North Regional).
At each of the regionals, matrics participating in the challenge can enter a lucky draw with the possibility of winning a year’s bursary at eta College, a leading Sport Science, Coaching and Management tertiary institution in Durban. The bursary will be awarded at the Grand Finals.
If you are unable to watch the action live, you can catch the action on the SuperSport Schools app.
For more information, follow the tournament on Facebook: SparSchoolGirlsHockeyTournament and Instagram sparkznhockey or TikTok spar.kzn.hockey or use the hashtags: #ChixWithStix; #HeartoftheCommunity; #SuperLocal; #MyKZNSPAR #MySPAR.
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