14 000 Maties fans braved the wind to watch their team maintain a winning streak. For the third week in a row, Maties have beaten their opposition and are clearly a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n
Maties of Stellenbosch University, entertained NMMU Madibaz of Port Elizabeth at Coetzenburg.<\/p>\n
It was a slow start to the game as both teams struggled to score. Thomas Kean put NMMU in front with\u00a0a try in\u00a0the 20th minute. Soon after, Maties replied with a try and missed the conversion, leaving the score 5-3. A few minutes before half time, Madibaz scored a try and missed the conversion. This was soon followed by another Madibaz penalty. Madibaz left the field in the lead \u00a0at 5-11.
\nThe men of Stellenbosch were determined as ever to win the game. This was evident as in the space of just ten minutes, two tries ( one being a seven- point try), as well as a conversion followed, allowing Maties to get\u00a0ahead of Madibaz 21-11.<\/p>\n
Rouch Nel of Madibaz went on to score a try, as\u00a0NMMU Madibaz trailed, 21-16. The last few minutes of the game were tense, as spectators were glued to the game. Maties secured the win with\u00a0two consecutive tries and a conversion just three minutes before\u00a0time. Maties are now the log leaders.
\nFinal score: 35-16<\/p>\n
FNB Player That Rocks<\/strong>: Brendon Nell (FNB Maties)<\/p>\n Scorers: Written by:\u00a0Tess Vengadajellum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 14 000 Maties fans braved the wind to watch their team maintain a winning streak. For the third week in a row, Maties have beaten their opposition and are clearly a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":2870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[229,64,38,8,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFNB Maties: 35
\nFive-point tries: Niel Oelofse, Ian Groenewald, Craig Barry, Michal Haznar
\nSeven-point tries: Brendon Nell
\nPenalties: Chris Smith (4)<\/p>\n