The u/17 Sevens rugby side of Grey High will get another chance this coming Saturday.
Grey just failed to win the first tournament in the Frogfoot series this past Saturday at home in Gqeberha. They were the defending champions.
This means Grey didn’t secure a place in the finals of the series which will take place on October 14 at Loftus in Pretoria.
The next tournament will be hosted by Outeniqua on Saturday in George. The winner will qualify for the finals and Grey will give it another shot.
Outeniqua, known as the Kwaggas, won the first tournament this time and could very well meet Grey in a final on Saturday again.
Grey will know precisely what they will have to do to beat the Kwaggas after they fought back bravely in the final this past Saturday.
The Kwaggas played a fantastic first half in which everything just went terribly wrong for Grey.
The visitors were leading 28–0 at halftime but Grey was the better team on the pitch in the second stint, scoring 12 points without reply.
Although it wasn’t enough to win, the comeback will give Grey a lot of confidence going for their next assignment.
The Grey tournament was a huge success and produced some spectacular Sevens rugby despite the cold, windy and wet conditions.
Framesby was another Gqeberha team which did well and won the Bowl final by beating Andrew Rabie 38–14.
Daniel Pienaar (Kariega) were the Shield winners, and St Andrew’s College (Makhanda) beat Queen’s College (Komani) 17–12 in a thrilling Plate final. Grey won the u/15 section.
Nelson Mandela Bay sides will not only be in action in George on Saturday but some are part of the 15 teams playing in the First Choice tournament hosted by Nico Malan High in Humansdorp.
While the focus is on the Sevens now, Otto du Plessis hosted a day of exciting 15-man matches against Cillié High in Gqeberha this past weekend.
The rain didn’t keep the spectators away and it certainly didn’t stop the boys from scoring some wonderful tries.
The highlight was the clash between the u/19 sides and Cillié had a good start, leading 10–5 till late in the first half.
Otto came back strongly just before the break and started the second half with the wind behind their backs, leading 19–10.
Early in this half things went terribly wrong for Cillié. A red card was followed by a yellow and from then on it was one-way traffic.
In the end Otto scored nine tries to two and won 59–10. One of the tries was a penalty try and Monray Geyser added six conversions. This was tremendous placekicking by Geyser in the challenging conditions.
Dylan Brent, playing at lock, was one of the stars for the winning team. He put the Cillié defence under enormous pressure with his powerful runs and it was no surprise that he scored three tries.
Results (Otto won all matches):
u/19 A: 59–10
u/19 B: 22–0
u/16 A: 17–0
u/15 A: 22–14
u/14 A: 27–0
