Hockey, South Africa

Men
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 0 (0) vs University of Stellenbosch 1 (0) {Warren Grobler}

University of Pretoria 3 (1) {Matthew Rose, Brendan van Zyl, Chris Cloete} vs University of KZN 0 (0)

University of Free State 2 (1) {Jaco Fourie, Renaldo Ogle} vs University of Cape Town 1 (1) {Brendon Solik }

North West University 0 (0) vs University of Johannesburg 3 (2) {Tebogo Lerole, Brandon Panther (2)}

PRESS RELEASE

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SA MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM

The South Africa Men’s Hockey team to participate in the Africa Cup of Nations Hockey tournament from the 11th to 18th July 2009 in Accra, Ghana was announced today.

After a most successful tour to Elektrostal, Moscow, Russia were the team won the Gold medal at the 4 Nations Invitational tournament, the team are going into the Africa Cup of Nations with a lot more confidence than in previous tournaments. This tournament is also a World Cup Qualifying tournament for the 2010 Hockey World Cup which will take place in

S.A. u18 I.P.T
Wednesday 1 July 2009

A Section
KZN (Inland) 3-4 Border

Southern Gauteng 3-3 Western Province

Southern Free State 3-1 Northern Gauteng

KZN (Coastal) 4-1 Eastern Gauteng

Eastern Province 8-0 Mpumalanga

Boland 5-2 North West

Northern Gauteng 1-2 Southern Gauteng

KZN (Coastal) 2-4 Border

North West 1-7 Southern Free State

Eastern Gauteng 7-0 Mpumalanga

B Section
Southern Gauteng B 4-1 Northern Free State

Border B 2-2 South Western District

Western Province B 2-1 Northern Cape

Southern Free State 0-0 Limpopo

By PETER MARTIN

THE Border hockey team fought back courageously in both their matches yesterday to win both and force their way into the last four of the A section of the U18 interprovincial played at East London.

Two of the other top teams, Western Province and Southern Gauteng, played to a 3-3 draw and as a result, both remain unbeaten in Pool A this far.

Against KwaZulu-Natal Inland in an early morning match, Border found themselves on the back foot and a goal behind with time running out. Andrew Buckley had found the back of the net twice and Lee Prinsloo had contributed a goal.

A calm demeanour certainly helped and Jason Maclachlan was able to score to give the hosts a 4-3 win.

S.A u18 I.P.T
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Section A

Border 2 - 2 Eastern Province
Eastern Gauteng 1-5 KZN (Inland)
North West 0-5 Western Province
Mpumalanga 1-12 KZN (Coastal) 
Boland 2-3 Northern Gauteng 
Southern Gauteng 1-1 Southern Free State
Mpumalanga 0-12 Border 
Eastern Province 1-3 Eastern Gauteng
Western Province 5-0 Boland 
KZN (Inland) 3-1 KZN (Coastal)

Section B

USSA HOCKEY A Section
RESULTS: 30 June 2009

Men

University of Cape Town 0 (0) vs University of Pretoria 5 (1) {Mark Holliday (2), Nicholas Gonsalves, Kyle Rhodes, Michael Sykes}

University of Stellenbosch 0 (0) vs University of Johannesburg 2 (1) {Dean Symons, Miguel da Graca}

University of KZN 3 (2) {Ndudozo Khanyile, Karl Oftebro, Sihle Ntuli} vs University of Free State 1 (1) {Paul Jordaan}

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 2 (0) {Nathan Kops, Wesley Wittstock} vs North West University 1 (1) {Matthew Fairweather}

Women

A SECTION

USSA Week hockey turns up the heat

There was much to admire on day one of the University Sport South Africa (USSA) Hockey Week at University of The Free State (Kovsies) in Bloemfontein Monday.

In the Men's A Section, University of Pretoria (Tuks) beat hosts Free State Varsity (Kovsies) 4-0. The Tuks scorers were Jonty Robinson, Brendan van Zyl, Simon O'Callaghan and Malcolm Ratz.

The University of Johannesburg clash with Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) saw UJ eventually prevailing 2-1.

UJ's Tebogo Lerole and Joezay Kops equalised. The winner came after the final hooter, a UJ penalty corner seeing Brandon Panther net a deflection goal.

By PETER MARTIN

The Border A hockey team were fortunate to come away from their opening match of the 2009 U18 tournament with a 5-5 draw against a tenacious Eastern Gauteng side at Kat Leisure Park in East London yesterday.

The exciting game was played at a furious pace with action moving from one side to the other throughout.

Border were 4-5 down when the hooter went for the end of the game, having secured a short corner only seconds before, and with Gauteng East failing to clear their line, some clever stickwork from Daniel Schroeder beat the East Gauteng goalkeeper to force the draw amid much relief from the players and spectators.

A Section

Pool A:

South Free State 3 (Hettie Oosthuizen Snip van Zyl, Jenette Swanepoel) KZN Inland 1 (Julia Hudson);
South Gauteng 3 (Stacey Morley-Jepson 2, Demi du Toit) Limpopo 1 (Vone de Lange);
WP 3 (Elzette Louw, Mia Neser, Tracy Green) Mpumalanga 2 (Emmie Dannhauser, Lynette Slazwedell).

Pool B: