{"id":3503,"date":"2017-04-18T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2017-04-18T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T08:19:14","slug":"tuks-reign-supreme-tenth-varsity-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2017\/04\/18\/tuks-reign-supreme-tenth-varsity-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuks reign supreme in 10th Varsity Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuks showed immense character to hold off the juggernaut that is Maties to win the tenth instalment of the FNB Varsity Cup presented by Steinhoff International with the scoreboard glowing <strong>28-21<\/strong> after 80 minutes in an exhilarating final at the Tuks Rugby Stadium on Monday, April\u00a017.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>FNB Player that Rocks<\/strong>: Clyde Davids (FNB UP-Tuks)<\/p>\n<p>Scorers:<\/p>\n<p>FNB UP-Tuks: 28<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tries: Chris Massyn, Divan Rossouw (7 pt try)<\/li>\n<li>Cons: Tinus de Beer (2)<\/li>\n<li>Pens: De Beer (4)<br \/>\nYellow card: Jaco Holtzhausen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FNB Maties: 21<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tries: Janco Venter (7 pt try)<\/li>\n<li>Cons: Chris Smith<\/li>\n<li>Pens: Smith (3), Tiaan Swanepoel<br \/>\nYellow card: Janco Venter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Teams<\/strong><br \/>\nFNB UP-Tuks: 15. Manie Libbok, 14. Dewald Naude, 13. Divan Rossouw, 12. Joshua Stander, 11. Sibahle Maxwane, 10. Tinus de Beer, 9. Andre Warner, 8. Clyde Davids, 7. Chris Massyn (c), 6. Marco van Staden, 5. Aston Fortuin, 4. Brian Leitch, 3. Neethling Fouche, 2. Corniel Els, 1. Andrew Beerwinkel.<br \/>\nReplacements: 16. Jan-Henning Campher, 17. Jaco Holtzhausen, 18. Marius Verwey, 19. Eduan Lubbe, 20. Theo Maree, 21. Toko Maebane, 22. Keanan van Wyk, 23. Franco van den Berg.<\/p>\n<p>FNB Maties: 15. Tiaan Swanepoel, 14. Kyle Steyn, 13. Michal Haznar, 12. Chris Smit, 11. Craig Barry (c), 10. Chris Smith, 9. Brendon Nell, 8. Devon Nash, 7. Kobus van Dyk, 6. Mitchell Carstens, 5. Janco Venter, 4. Ian Groenewald, 3. Niel Oelofse, 2. Craig Corbett, 1. Wesley Adonis<br \/>\nReplacements: 16. HJ Luus, 17. Ricky Ngwabara, 18. Wikus Groenewald, 19. Johan Momsen, 20. Stephan Streicher, 21. Remu Malan, 22. Ernst Stapelberg, 23. Duncan Saal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Varsity Cup Dream Team to face the Junior Boks\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the final of the Varsity Cup on Monday night, Varsity Cup founding member Fran\u00e7ois Pienaar announced the 23-man squad to face the Junior Springboks on 25 April at Danie Craven Stadium. Kick-off will be at 19h00.<\/p>\n<p>The team was selected by a panel of independent selectors, who decided which players have been stand-out performers in their respective positions throughout the competition. The team will be coached by the winning Varsity Cup coach.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the team:<\/p>\n<p>15 Full back Craig Barry (captain) FNB Maties<br \/>\n14 Right wing Sibahle Maxwane FNB UP-Tuks<br \/>\n13 Right centre Aphiwe Dyantyi FNB UJ<br \/>\n12 Left centre Impi Visser FNB UP-Tuks<br \/>\n11 Left wing Duncan Saal FNB Maties<br \/>\n10 Fly half Tinus De Beer FNB UP-Tuks<br \/>\n9 Scrum half Andrew Warner FNB UP-Tuks<br \/>\n8 Number eight Kevin Kaba FNB Madibaz<br \/>\n7 Right flanker Kobus van Dyk FNB Maties<br \/>\n6 Left flanker Dani\u00ebl Maartens FNB Shimlas<br \/>\n5 Right lock Loftus Morrison FNB NWU-Pukke<br \/>\n4 Left lock Aston Fortuin FNB UP-Tuks<br \/>\n3 Tight head prop Neethling Fouche FNB UP-Tuks<br \/>\n2 Hooker Wilmar Arnoldi FNB NWU-Pukke<br \/>\n1 Loose head prop Andrew Beerwinkel FNB UP-Tuks<\/p>\n<p>Replacements:<\/p>\n<p>16 Hooker Johannes Snyman FNB UJ<br \/>\n17 Prop Luvuyo Pupuma FNB Wits<br \/>\n18 Prop Nico Du Plessis FNB UJ<br \/>\n19 Utility Forward Johan Momsen FNB Maties<br \/>\n20 Utility Forward Phumzile Maqondwana FNB Shimlas<br \/>\n21 Scrumhalf Herchele Jantjes FNB UWC<br \/>\n22 Utility Back Ernst Stapelberg FNB Maties<br \/>\n23 Utility Back Michal Hazner FNB Maties<\/p>\n<p>COACHING STAFF (dependent on who wins the Varsity Cup 2017 title)<br \/>\nHEAD COACH<br \/>\nHawies Fourie (FNB Maties) \/ Pote Human (FNB UP-Tuks)<br \/>\nASSISTANT COACH<br \/>\nForwards coach: Drickus Hancke (FNB Maties) \/ Denzil Frans (FNB UP-Tuks)<br \/>\nASSISTANT COACH<br \/>\nBackline coach: Norman Jordaan (FNB Maties) \/ Bevan Fortuin (FNB UP-Tuks)<br \/>\nTEAM MANAGER<br \/>\nQuintin van Rooyen (FNB Maties )<br \/>\nPHYSIOTHERAPIST<br \/>\nRobyn Phillips (FNB Wits)<br \/>\nSPORTS SCIENTIST<br \/>\nJacques Durand ( FNB UJ)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuks showed immense character to hold off the juggernaut that is Maties to win the tenth instalment of the FNB Varsity Cup presented by Steinhoff International with the scoreboard glowing 28-21 after 80 minutes in an exhilarating final at the Tuks Rugby Stadium on Monday, April\u00a017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":3508,"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":[26,9],"tags":[266,38,8,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503"}],"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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/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=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}