{"id":5359,"date":"2018-02-06T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2018-02-06T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:22:54","slug":"varsity-cup-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2018\/02\/06\/varsity-cup-round-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity Cup Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A round up of the scores from last night&#8217;s action. Congrats to UJ, Wits, Maties and UCT on their victories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UJ 48 v CUT 21<\/strong><br \/>\nFans came out in their numbers to the University of Johannesburg Stadium to hand the home side leverage over a stubborn CUT side as UJ won 48-21.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nFNB UJ: 48<br \/>\nTries: Johannes Snyman, Mpofu Malembe, Ruan Brown, Thian Bradley, Jaco Fourie and Kiewit Cohen<br \/>\nCons: Jean-Luc Cilliers (6)\u00a0Pens: Jean-Luc Cilliers<\/p>\n<p>FNB CUT: 21<br \/>\nTries: Ruan Smit\u00a0Cons: Heinrich Bitzi (3)<\/p>\n<p><strong>FNB Player That Rocks:<\/strong> Jannes Snyman (UJ)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wits 25 v UP-Tuks 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UP-Tuks drew first blood in the contest at Wits Stadium but Wits finally managed to get the win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FNB Wits: 25<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Sicelo Champion, Kwanele Ngema, Kasende Kapepula. Cons: Christian Humphries (3)<\/p>\n<p>FNB UP-Tuks: 19<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Toko Seerane, Xolisa Guma x2 Cons: Tinus De Beer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FNB Player That Rocks:<\/strong> Tyrone Green (Wits)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maties 56 v Shimlas 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An impressive 15 237 supporters turned up at the Danie Craven stadium for FNB Maties\u2019 first home game of the season and the supporters were treated to a stellar performance by the Maroon Machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nFNB Maties: 56<br \/>\nTries: Marno Redelinghuys; Edwill van der Merwe; Duncan Saal (3); Chippie Oelofse; Chris Smith.\u00a0Cons: Chris Smith (5); Reinhardt Fortuin. Pens: Chris Smith<\/p>\n<p>FNB Shimlas: 21<br \/>\nTries: Saida Xamlashe (2); Athi Halom Cons: Lubabalo Dobela; Charl Naude (2)<\/p>\n<p><strong>FNB Player That Rocks:<\/strong> Duncan Saal (Maties).<\/p>\n<p><strong>UCT 27 v Madibaz 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Madibaz&#8217;first game of the season saw them go down in a hard fought battle against UCT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nFNB Madibaz: 17<br \/>\nTries: Simon Bolze, Siphumelele Msutwana<br \/>\nCon: Simon Bolze.\u00a0Pen: Simon Bolze (2)<\/p>\n<p>FNB UCT: 27<br \/>\nTries: Pieter Schoonraad, Nyasha Tarusenga, Cuan Hablutzel<br \/>\nCon: Karl Martin, Lohan Lubbe.\u00a0Pen: Karl Martin<\/p>\n<p><strong>FNB Player That Rocks:<\/strong> Pieter Schoonraad (UCT)<\/p>\n<p>Results courtesy Varsity Sports<\/p>\n<p>Check our <a href=\"https:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/2018\/02\/varsity-cup-2018-fixtures\/\">schedule<\/a> to see the fixtures for Round 3.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A round up of the scores from last night&#8217;s action. Congrats to UJ, Wits, Maties and UCT on their victories. UJ 48 v CUT 21 Fans came out in their numbers to the University of Johannesburg Stadium to hand the home side leverage over a stubborn CUT side as UJ won 48-21. Scorers: FNB UJ: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":5367,"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":[38,8,277,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359"}],"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=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/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=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}