{"id":5583,"date":"2018-03-13T14:11:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2018-03-13T14:11:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:11:57","slug":"varsity-cup-round-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2018\/03\/13\/varsity-cup-round-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity Cup Round 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wins for UJ, Maties and NWU with UP Tuks registering their first win in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UJ 29 v Wits 17<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Johannesburg Varsity Cup derby was bound to be an exciting one, with Wits sitting in second spot on the log\u00a0and UJ not too far behind in fourth position. It was the University of Johannesburg who claimed top honours on the\u00a0night.<br \/>\n<strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nFNB Wits: 17<\/p>\n<p>Tries: CJ Conradie, Conor Brockschmidt.\u00a0Cons: Chris Humphries<\/p>\n<p>FNB UJ: 29<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Odwa Nkunjana (2), James Venter, Jan-Louis La Grange<br \/>\nCons: Kobus Engelbrecht (3). Pens: Kobus Engelbrecht<\/p>\n<p><strong>FNB Player That Rocks:<\/strong> Odwa Nkunjana (UJ)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maties 19 v Madibaz 0<\/strong><br \/>\nMaties continued their unbeaten run and secured a home semi-final after defeating FNB Madibaz in Port Elizabeth. Eight\u00a0minutes into the second half, the game was stopped due to a pitch invasion.<br \/>\n<strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nFNB Madibaz: 0<\/p>\n<p>FNB Maties: 19<br \/>\nTries: Johan Momsen, Logan Boonzaaier and Munier Hartzenberg.\u00a0Cons: Chris Smith (2)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuks 54 v CUT 26<\/strong><br \/>\nUP-Tuks won their first game of FNB Varsity Cup after scoring eight tries to win in Bloemfontein. The loss\u00a0means that CUT are eighth on the table and could possibly be fighting relegation to the FNB Varsity Shield.<br \/>\n<strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nFNB CUT: 26<br \/>\nTries: Joseph Karabo, Ruan Smit, Ruan Wasserman, Ruben De Haas<\/p>\n<p>Conversions: Denver Kleu (2)<\/p>\n<p>FNB UP-Tuks: 54<br \/>\nTries: Tyler Fisher 2, Eduan Lubbe 2, Ruan Nortje 2, Cameron Hufke, Marnus Potgieter<br \/>\nConversions: Christo Hammen 6<\/p>\n<p><strong>FNB Player That Rocks:<\/strong> Eduan Lubbe (Tuks)<\/p>\n<p><strong>NWU 58 v Shimlas 21<\/strong><br \/>\nShimlas proved to be no competition for NWU, who sealed their fifth victory of the season after winning at the Fanie\u00a0du Toit Sports Grounds.<br \/>\n<strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nFNB NWU: 58<br \/>\nTries: Dean Gordon (1), Evardi Boshoff (1). Tiaan Bezuidenhout (1), Chriswill September (1), AK Nela (1), Louis van\u00a0der Westhuizen (1), Tapiwe Mafura (1), Jimmy Mpailane (1).<br \/>\nCons: Schalk Hugo (6)<\/p>\n<p>FNB Shimlas: 21<br \/>\nTries: Albertus de Bod (1), Athi Halom (1), Francois Agenbug (1).\u00a0Cons: Lubabalo Dobela (2). Yellow: Albertus de Bod<\/p>\n<p><strong>FNB Player That Rocks:<\/strong> Schalk Hugo (NWU).<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy Varsity Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wins for UJ, Maties and NWU with UP Tuks registering their first win in the tournament. UJ 29 v Wits 17 The Johannesburg Varsity Cup derby was bound to be an exciting one, with Wits sitting in second spot on the log\u00a0and UJ not too far behind in fourth position. It was the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":5587,"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":[38,21,8,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583"}],"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=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/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=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}