Maties implode in Varsity Cup
18 Feb 2008
Tukkies staged a miraculous second-half comeback to draw 31-31 with Maties in Stellenbosch.
Maties appeared to have the game wrapped up when they led 19-0 at half-time and 31-5 soon after. But Tukkies stormed back, scoring 26 unanswered points.
To add to the drama, replacement Tukkies flyhalf Chandre Boshoff missed with his first attempt of his conversion to draw the game level after replacement fullback Shaun Davids scored the final try, but he got another shot at poles after two Maties players started their run to block the kick too early.
Davids had a great afternoon and it was fitting that he played a part in the final act. He had his opponents clutching air for most of the night with his swerving runs.
But the night belonged to the 19-year old Tukkie winger Gerhard ”Shadow” van den Heever who scored the best try and perhaps most important try of the night to bring his team within seven points of the Maties with only a few minutes to play.
Maties – Tries: Lucien Cloete (2), Pieter Stoffberg, Cameron Peverett. Conversions: Henoe Stoffberg. Penalties: Stoffberg (3).
Tukkies – Tries: Henk de Ridder, Eben Joubert, Torsten van Jaarsveld, Shadow van den Heever, Shaun Davids. Conversions: Chandra Boshoff (3).
12 Comments
19 Feb 2008, 08:16 am
dammit! couldn’t go watch the game, bloody work. saw the students heading there in droves, musta been packed.
19 Feb 2008, 09:03 am
Had hoped that SABC would show the game…..raced home to watch it… but
……where can i get hold of the schedules for the rest of the tournament?
19 Feb 2008, 09:09 am
agreed the winger was briliant
unfortunately the ref blew the game to death
19 Feb 2008, 09:13 am
Supersport showed the game, the maties should never have drawn that game, they should have won by far. I think the new laws are ****, free kick after free kick, no man this isn’t rugby anymore.
19 Feb 2008, 09:48 am
Maties would have won by far if they had continued to play but no they were too clever for thier own good and got a ten minute lesson in GUTS.
19 Feb 2008, 10:41 am
Shadow van den Heever…what a name!
19 Feb 2008, 10:45 am
Well done Tukkies.
Maties have so much depth – and so many other factors in their favour when it comes to rugby – that I’m surprised that ANY other varsity can stand up to them.
Well done Tukkies, indeed.
19 Feb 2008, 11:09 am
maties can only blame themselves.
they sent in a decidedly second string looking side that failed to hold out for the whole game. chaen will be kicking himself today!
by the way? why the hell is the sevens not held in stellenbosch anymore… compare last nights crowd to the dissapointing show that we see at george every year…
anyone that can remember the Winfield 7′s will remember that it was awesome!
19 Feb 2008, 11:53 am
was at the game last nite, awesome idea, official attendance 8514, not bad, agree the continous awarding of free kicks damaged the game in its whole. Tukkies in the initial period of second half seemed a much better team and carried it through to the end, Maties downfall must have been their subs, did not manage to maintain the intensity of their first half effort.
19 Feb 2008, 12:29 pm
Maties should give all the other varsities a klap.They just have so many players and that draw should wake them up.it will go down as a loss in stellenbosch for Maties
19 Feb 2008, 14:20 pm
Shadow van den Heever
19 Feb 2008, 14:25 pm
looked like an awesome atmosphere unlike the icy reception the wife gave the idea of having to sit through rugga on a monday night aswell as all weekend….
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