Stellenbosch Maties faced the Ikey tigers of UCT (University of Cape Town) in round five of the Varsity Cup last night.<\/p>\n
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Matie supporters watched the excitement at the Neelsie student centre. The intervarsity rivals proved to play an intense and adrenaline-charged game. Despite the windy weather conditions, the Ikey Tigers started well when Lohan Lubbe scored a penalty. The lead was short-lived as Craig Barry of Maties scored a try, which was then converted. Allowing the visitors\u00a0to lead by 9-3.<\/p>\n
With the\u00a0UCT team playing one man less, Maties’ Chris Smit scored a try and conversion for a 16-3 lead. Ikeys\u00a0were back in the game when they scored two penalties in the space of two minutes. The score was then 16-9.<\/p>\n
Just seconds before half time, Maties scored yet another try allowing them to be at a 23-9 advantage. Nyasha Tarusenga of UCT scored a seven point try shortly after the start of second half. Just before the strategy break, Mates scored a try. Stephan Streicher of Stellenbosch, added more points to the board after scoring a try for the maroon team. Maties now led 36-16.<\/p>\n
In the space of four minutes, Maties proved to be the winning team as two tries and a conversion were added to the scoreboard, allowing Maties a\u00a047-16 win.<\/p>\n
Maties men had a convincing win and played well, especially in the second half. The Stellenbosch team will face Shimlas of Free State next week, which is considered a \u201cmust-see game\u201d.<\/p>\n
Final score : Maties 47-16 Ikeys SCORES Teams Substitutions: 16 Martin Chandler, 17 William Day, 18 Lee-Marvin Mazebuko, 19 Kuyenzeka Xaba, 20 Vernon Peterson, 21 Hilio De Abreu, 22 Tristan Mouton, 23 Gerard Pieterse.<\/p>\n The FNB Maties: 1 Niel Oelofse, 2 Craig Corbett, 3 Jacobus van der Merwe, 4 Ernst van Rhyn, 5 Johan Momsen, 6 Saud Abrahams, 7 Jacobus van Dyk, 8 Devon Nash, 9 Brendon Nell, 10 Christopher Smith, 11 Edwill van der Merwe, 12 Chris Smit, 13 Michal Haznar, 14 Duncan Saal, 15 Craig Barry<\/p>\n Replacements: 16 Johan Kirsten, 17 Wesley Adonis, 18 Wikus Groenewald, 19 Mitchell Carstens, 20 Stephan Streicher, 21 Albertus de Wet, 22 Douglas Steyn, 23 Tiaan Swanepoel.<\/p>\n Written by:\u00a0Tess Vengadajellum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stellenbosch Maties faced the Ikey tigers of UCT (University of Cape Town) in round five of the Varsity Cup last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":2896,"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":[232,229,38,8,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890"}],"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=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/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=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFNB Player That Rocks<\/strong>: Johan Momsen (FNB Maties)<\/p>\n
\nFNB UCT: 16 Tries: Nyasha Tarusenga Cons: Rob Anderson Drop goals: Rob Anderson Pens: Lohan Lubbe, Rob Anderson Cards: Rico Lategan (Yellow)
\nFNB Maties: 47 Tries: Duncan Saal (one seven-pointer, two five-pointers), Christopher Smith, Craig Barry (seven-pointer), Michal Haznar, Stephan Streicher. Cons: Christopher Smith (4).<\/p>\n
\nThe FNB Ikeys: 1 Wayrin Losper, 2 Cuan Hablutzel, 3 Michael Kumbirai, 4 Duncan Saffy, 5 Gary Porter, 6 Sanele Malwane (C), 7 Luke Stringer, 8 Nyasha Tarusenga, 9 Stefano de Gouveia, 10 Rob Anderson, 11 Joel Smith, 12 Rico Lategan, 13 Suwi Chibale, 14 Rayno Mapoe, 15 Lohan Lubbe.<\/p>\n