Landbou pay the Pryce
13 Apr 2009
St Andrew’s edged Boland Landbou 9-7 at the St Stithians Easter Festival on Monday.
Flyhalf James Pryce was the hero for the Grahamstown school, kicking three penalties.
St Andrew’s started the game well, taking on their opponents’ much bigger forward pack and keeping things tight, with Pryce slotting his first penalty midway through the first half after Landbou had infringed at ruck time.
At times the game became tedious with both sides looking clumsy with ball in hand. While Landbou did have several chances to score, their inaccuracy let them down at crucial stages.
After trailing 3-0 at the break, Landbou were penalised twice within the first 10 minutes of the second half and Pryce sent the ball through the uprights on both occasions.
However, Landbou struck back when flanker Christo Scharwtz scored a try after rounding off a move that he had initiated inside his own half. Flyhalf Werner Joubert added the conversion to set up a tense final 15 minutes.
St Andrew’s spent most of that time defending their tryline but held on for a famous victory.
‘This was a colossal win and our team’s tigerish defence won us the game,’ Saints coach Stefan Louwrens told keo.co.za.
St Andrew’s flank Justus Luttig and No 8 James Gotz were the unsung heroes of the match. They were outstanding at the breakdown, stealing plenty of ball, while Gotz was superb on defence.
Pryce is also a player to keep an eye on having already kicked 86 points this season. He is a competent footballer with electric pace.
Easter festival results (Day 3):
St John’s:
Maritzburg College 53 FNB Invitation 3
Golden Lions Invitational 21 Jeppe 16
Glenwood 52 Helpmekaar 0
Outeniqua 55 St John’s 9
Affies 30 Paarl Boys’ High 15
Paul Roos 8 Monument 6
St Stithians:
FNB Invitation 30 St Alban’s 14
Parktown 22 St Charles 14
Wynberg 40 St David’s 3
Bishops 26 St Stithians 3
St Andrew’s 9 Boland Landbou 7
KES:
Florida 25 Eldoraigne 22
FNB Invitation XV 35 Muir 22
KES 36 Hudson Park 6
Marlow 36 Westville 12
Rondebosch 22 Pretoria Boys’ 18
St Benedict’s 20 Rob Ferreira 12
Trinityhouse 26 Union High 0
Kearsney:
HTS Middelburg 27 Dale 21
Kearsney 3 Marais Viljoen 0
Queen’s 17 DHS 7
Selborne 20 EG Jansen 20
Upington 31 KZN Development XV 0
By Gareth Wright
9 Comments
14 Apr 2009, 07:47 am
Geez, how good was Outeniqua?? What a talented side. They were superb.
Also gives one hope for the future of SA rugby – with the most amazing talent on show from their side being black. Their center – Fransman i think – was a revelation.
Afterwards i saw a Sharks scout take this number. Dammit….
14 Apr 2009, 08:44 am
Couldnt agree more. They were superb esp. 1 and 8
14 Apr 2009, 08:48 am
Kearsney 3 Marais Viljoen 0
This must have been an excrutiatingly exciting game to watch.
14 Apr 2009, 09:38 am
#1 Cheetha Champs: I’m sure the Union’s scouts had a festive weekend with all the talent on show. Hopefully the WP scouts used a bit of logic to look for a front ranker or two…
14 Apr 2009, 10:11 am
I hear Bishops were up 26 – 3 vs St Stithians at half time and ended up winning 26 – 3! No points in 2nd half. However, I hear that Bishops had so many injuries before the game that they only had 7 backs available. So, when, just after half time, Bishops’ no 10 and 13 clashed heads and were both stretchered off, they had a hooker playing crumhalf and a flank playing centre and the scrumhalf playing flyhalf! Then, add to this, they were given a yellow card and suffered a further injury but had run out of substitutes. So, the ended up the game with 13 players on the field. Hats off for not allowing Saints to cross the try line at this stage. Just pity about the injuries and the yellow card because, by all accounts, they had being playing sublime running rugby in the 1st half and had entertained the crowed with some great rugby up to that stage.
14 Apr 2009, 10:34 am
After watching all the schools action over the weekend I think its safe to say that SA Rugby can and should remain on top of the world for the next 10 to 15 years or so! The talent, skills, size and enthusiasm of all the schools and players was amazing! And it just seems to get better each year!
And if the talent scouts and offers going around are anything to go by the talent should be well look after as well. Now if we can just keep the politics out…
A cause for concern though was the quality of the refereeing, some of it was diabolical to say the least! Well at least at the KES Fest
14 Apr 2009, 10:58 am
Pretoria Boys vs RBHS was a tale of 2 halves. Bosch won on the hooter-incredible 19 point turnaround having been down 18-3 at ht. The 8 for Bosch-Chad Mathews is a great player along with KES 12 Jaryd Meyer. Would like to see both in the SA Schools set-up in 2009
14 Apr 2009, 11:07 am
Cape Town boys giving it hard to the Highvelders. Oh well.
14 Apr 2009, 11:25 am
You gotto love the Easter festivals! Cheetah, where were your Grey boys?
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