After seven years and three consecutive finals, the Maroon Machine finally clinched their fourth Varsity Cup trophy winning 40 – 7 against NWU.<\/p>\n
A boisterous sell-out crowd at the Danie Craven stadium saw the home side keep their shape on attack and do equally well in defence as they went into the half time break leading 10-7. Maties caught NWU out wide on numerous occasions but were let down by their composure in crucial areas inside the opposition’s territory. Despite this, the home team didn\u2019t stop probing and got their just reward : Maties \u2013 Varsity Cup Champions, 2018.<\/p>\n
Scorers:<\/strong> FNB NWU: 7 FNB Player That Rocks:<\/strong> Johan van Niekerk (Maties)<\/p>\n Tournament awards:<\/strong> Teams:<\/strong> NWU:<\/strong> 15 Tapiwa Mafura, 14 Jimmy Mpailane, 13 Evardi Boshoff, 12 Akhona Nela, 11 Dean Stokes, 10 Schalk Hugo, 9 Chriswill September, 8 Tiaan Bezuidenhout, 7 Estehan Visagie, 6 Gideon van der Merwe, 5 Walt Steenkamp, 4 Johan Retief, 3 Robert Hunt, 2 Louis van der Westhuizen, 1 Matimu Manganyi Courtesy Varsity Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After seven years and three consecutive finals, the Maroon Machine finally clinched their fourth Varsity Cup trophy winning 40 – 7 against NWU. A boisterous sell-out crowd at the Danie Craven stadium saw the home side keep their shape on attack and do equally well in defence as they went into the half time break […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":5749,"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":[229,147,38,21,8,277,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746"}],"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=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/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=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFNB Maties: 40
\nTries: Edwill van der Merwe; Johan Momsen; Munier Hartzenberg; Ricky Nwagbara
\nCons: Chris Smith (4).\u00a0Drop goals: Chris Smith<\/p>\n
\nTries: Tiaan Bezuidenhout.\u00a0Cons: Schalk Hugo<\/p>\n
\nFNB Player That Rocks: Walt Steenkamp (NWU)
\nFNB Back That Rocks: Duncan Saal (Maties)
\nFNB Forward That Rocks: Marno Redelinghuys (Maties)<\/p>\n
\nMaties:<\/strong> 15 Carlisle Nel, 14 Duncan Saal, 13 Michal Haznar, 12 Chris Smit, 11 Edwill van der Merwe, 10 Christopher Smith, 9 Remu Malan, 8 Marno Redelinghuys, 7 Chris Massyn, 6 Johan van Niekerk, 5 Johan Momsen, 4 Ernst van Rhyn, 3 Neethling Fouche, 2 Wilmar Arnoldi, 1 Chippie Oelofse (C)
\nReplacements: 16 HJ Luus, 17 Ricky Nwagbara, 18 Piet-Louw Strauss, 19 Brandon Valentyn, 20 Stefan Streicher, 21 Brandon Nel, 22 Munier Hartzenberg, 23 Jordan Chait<\/p>\n
\nSubs: 16 Percy Mngadi, 17 Nelius Theron, 18 Theodore Ferreira, 19 Jaco Swanepoel, 20 Wandile Mazibuko, 21 Nkosana Mbatha, 22 Henko Marais, 23 Justin Newman<\/p>\n