{"id":5978,"date":"2018-05-16T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=5978"},"modified":"2018-05-16T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T09:00:27","slug":"varsity-hockey-2018-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2018\/05\/16\/varsity-hockey-2018-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity Hockey 2018 Semi-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s in the final? Check results from the semi final games played in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuks 6-6 Wits (5-3)<\/strong><br \/>\nUP did what needed to be done beating Wits 5-3 in a penalty shootout after the match ended 6-6 on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nTuks: 6 Goals: Mitchell Currie, Bradley Sherwood (3), Peobo Lembethe<\/p>\n<p>Wits: 6 Goals: Kingsley Botes, Brandon James (3)<\/p>\n<p>FNB Player of the Match: Brandon James (Wits)<br \/>\nMugg &amp; Bean Star Saver: Duncan Fischer (Wits)<br \/>\nSamsung Super Striker: Bradley Sherwood (Tuks)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maties 2-2 NWU (2-0)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe final day was marred by the cold and wet which had an effect on players and supporters alike. Maties continued their impressive form to beat the NWU 2-0 in a penalty shootout after the first semi-final ended in a 2-2 draw.\u00a0After an appeal of NWU\u2019s goal against Maties a panel of hockey umpires concluded that the original decision not to award the goal, would stand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nMaties: 2 Goals: Dayne Samboer (2)<\/p>\n<p>NWU: 2 Goals: Killian Ludick<\/p>\n<p>FNB Player of the Match: Rob McKinley (Maties)<br \/>\nMugg &amp; Bean Star Saver: Nicholas Giger (Maties)<br \/>\nSamsung Super Striker: Dayne Samboer (Maties)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UCT 6-5 UJ<\/strong><br \/>\nUCT had the final say despite trailing for most of the match, beating UJ to claim fifth place for Varsity Hockey\u00a02018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nUCT: 6 Goals: Daiyaan Solomons, Dan Cole (2)<\/p>\n<p>UJ: 5 Goals: Manessah Dube, James Gilbert, Tristan Blackie-Roden, Ernest Joubert,<\/p>\n<p>FNB Player of the Match: Jack Forest (UCT)<br \/>\nMugg &amp; Bean Star Saver: Anton van Loggerenberg (UCT)<br \/>\nSamsung Super Striker: Dan Cole (UCT)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kovsies 0-6 Madibaz<\/strong><br \/>\nMadibaz left their best efforts for last as they beat the University of the Free State 6-0 in the Varsity Hockey 7th\/8th playoff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><br \/>\nKovsies: 0<\/p>\n<p>Madibaz: 6 Goals: Brodie Fanoe, Laython Coombs (2)<\/p>\n<p>FNB Player of the Match: Laython Coombs (Madibaz)<br \/>\nMugg &amp; Bean Star Saver: Nathan Waters (Madibaz)<br \/>\nSamsung Super Striker: Brodie Fanoe (Madibaz)<\/p>\n<p>The Varsity Hockey final between <strong>Maties and UP Tuks<\/strong> will take place at the Maties Hockey Astro on Monday, <strong>21 May 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s in the final? Check results from the semi final games played in Pretoria. Tuks 6-6 Wits (5-3) UP did what needed to be done beating Wits 5-3 in a penalty shootout after the match ended 6-6 on Monday evening. Scorers: Tuks: 6 Goals: Mitchell Currie, Bradley Sherwood (3), Peobo Lembethe Wits: 6 Goals: Kingsley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":5987,"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":[7,21,8,277,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978"}],"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=5978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/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=5978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}