KINGSWAY High School took top honours in the KZN South Coast Regional of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Fast 5s Netball Challenge held at Southcity Christian School recently.
They met Port Shepstone High School in an exciting conclusion to the regional that had eight teams participate. In their earlier meeting, Kingsway won 7-3 in both teams’ second game of the day.
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At the end of the round robin, Port Shepstone High was level on points with KwaMakhutha High School, but qualified for the podium game having netted 48 goals in their seven games compared to KwaMakhutha’s 41.
“In the final, Port Shepstone came out firing with their first attempt just 18 seconds into the game, their opening shot sadly missing the net. Kingsway snaffled the ball, quickly pushing play down to the other end and 30 seconds later landed their first goal with Elrika Laubscher opening her impressive account. 40 seconds later, Port Shepstone leveled the scoreline with their only goal in the first half,” said communications officer, Sharlene Versfeld.
She said heading to half time, a tiring Port Shepstone team, who had just played the last round-robin game of the day, revealed a few cracks in their armour with a couple of simple mistakes.
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Pouncing on these opportunities, Kingsway quietly built on their lead giving them a comfortable 6-1 score at half time. Kingsway’s Laubscher added another three goals to her tally, and team-mate Dedré Gravett netted two.
“15 seconds into the second half, Laubscher moved the score up to 7-1 with her fifth goal of the final. The tech table had a quiet patch, with both teams not able to find the middle of the ring for three minutes, with Laubscher breaking the dry spell by earning her sixth goal, and her team’s eighth with 2.42 minutes left on the clock. Port Shepstone also shook off their goal drought, taking the score to 8-3,” said Versfeld.
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On the final whistle, Laubscher launched the game’s last attempt, sending the ball through the hoop and taking the end result to 9-3.
Captain for Kingsway, Aneliswa Maphumulo said, “The tournament was really fun. We came in thinking we weren’t going to make it this far, so we were excited. Heading into the final, we thought we would be facing a different team, so had to change our game plan a bit. It was quite challenging facing the local team as the crowd was vocal in their support, but my team coped well with this and I am so happy that we won.”
The round robin results were as followed: first was Kingsway High School with 21 point, fifth was Kuswag Hoërskool with 12 points and seventh was Amanzimtoti High School with 3 points.
The fourth tournament headed to Ferrum Hoërskool for the KZN Northern Regional on August 27.
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