Tigers secure home semi
16 Mar 2009
UCT went down 17-13 to Pukke in Potchefstroom but did enough to ensure home ground advantage for their semi-final tie next week.
Pukke needed to win with a bonus point and keep UCT from registering any points to leapfrog their Cape opponents into second place on the log, but the North West students could only muster two tries and will now face the Tigers down in Cape Town in a week’s time.
Pukke started the better of the two sides and took the lead in the sixth minute through a Cecil Dumond penalty and just four minutes later captain Willem Van der Wal burst through the UCT defence to score under the posts and Dumond added the conversion to put his side out to a 10- lead with just 10 minutes gone.
The Tigers, though, slowly started to come back into the encounter and having missed an earlier shot at goal, flyhalf Matthew Rosslee finally got his team on the scoreboard in the 35th minute with a well struck penalty from the left hand side of the field.
Pukke were then caught napping by a short lineout move and winger Marvin Christians sprinted down the sideline and saw off the challenge of Andrew van Wyk to score in the corner. Rosslee added the conversion and just like that the scores were level.
The hosts started the second-half well and after a good period of sustained pressure Pukke put together a good rolling maul and big prop Bennie Uys got the ball over the line to put his side back in front.
Pukke enjoyed the bulk of the possession and were dominant at scrum time, but despite winning a couple of scrums against the feed, their backs were unable to take advantage of the good first phase ball and in the end John Dobson’s men were content to settle for the losing bonus point.
By Andrew Worling
9 Comments
16 Mar 2009, 20:13 pm
Varsity dragons…
16 Mar 2009, 20:34 pm
Hey Tuks, Hey Tuks, Hey Tuks !!!!
Final Score Tukkies 25 / Maties 23
Lekka, lekka, lekka !
17 Mar 2009, 04:21 am
They’re the Ikeys, not the “Tigers”. (There aren’t any tigers in Africa, anyway.)
17 Mar 2009, 05:27 am
#3 TheTackler:
No tigers in CT especially!
Must say, I only recently heard of this ‘tiger’ nick, and I have attended many intervarsities with the Ikeys playing, as well as GCC matches in the Cape, never heard anyone shouting ‘tigers’…
17 Mar 2009, 13:11 pm
Nou die PUKKE!!!!!
17 Mar 2009, 13:21 pm
#4 Pietman: Die enigste tiere wat ek ken is die Komatipoort laerskool rugbyspan. Hulle het gedink hulle is nat k$k
17 Mar 2009, 15:24 pm
Piketberg are “Tiere” too.
17 Mar 2009, 15:26 pm
#7 TheTackler:
‘Moorreesburg Tigers’, you mean? Close enough.
They used to be one of the top teams in Boland, don’t know if they even still excist.
20 Mar 2009, 11:44 am
Plenty of Tigers in the Western Cape – The Paarl ‘Young Peoples’ are Tigers. Tygerberg and UCT (both tigers) even used to play for the Tiger Cup in their league fixture.
UCT have been tigers for a long time. “Once an Ikey – always a Tiger” has been around for years and their have striped jerseys gave them the name. (I guess Zebras wouldnt have impressed anyone)
I do concede though, that just “Tigers” isn’t quite right. They have started re-branding themselves quite nicely – check their website.
Call them Ikey Tigers and everyone knows.
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