The men’s first hockey side started the outdoor hockey season in the best possible way last night by winning the President’s Cup, which was a pre-season tournament lasting a few weekends. They played Tuks, 4 – 2, in the final, which was played at the Potch Uni. astro. Berne Burger opened the scoring, with a […]
The first four matches of the Old Eds tennis championships were held last Saturday. A big crowd arrived to watched some exciting finals finals from the terraces. The main event was the Men’s Singles which was eventually won by Lloyd Segal, the club’s no 1 ranked player, who beat Chad Brown, the defending champ and top ranked vets 40’s […]
We decided to bat first against The wanderers on a wicket that looked a bit on the green side. We lost Xolani Ngumbela well caught behind but Josh Lang was joined by Matt Thornhill (24) and they put on 49 but the with the score under100 after 30 overs we needed to push on for […]
The Premier team were keen to redress the unfortunate loss to Jeppe of the previous week when they visited Glenvista. Rain was threatening at times so we invited Glenvista to bat first with David Sator making an early break through with some good movement off the pitch. Glenvista then went to 120/1 before the tide […]
After a good run of wins the Presidents team suffered a bad loss to KHOSA by 4 wickets. Batting first we lost Xolani Ngumbela (11) to a good catch and then Hayden Sweet and Keegan van Rensburg followed quickly thereafter and we were 38/3. Josh Paul and Josh Lang pulled the team back with a […]
Our Premier league team hosted Jeppe on Sunday in a match that we hoped would see us close the gap on them at the top of the table. We asked Jeppe to bat first and with opening bowlers Damian Hutchinson (1/37) and Ross van Buuren (2/32) keeping their batsmen very modest. All the bowlers stuck […]
Having lost the toss we were put into bat but lost wickets regularly to their spinners who controlled the game. They slowed the pace on the ball causing our batsmen to try and hit over the top without success and we found ourselves on 90/7 with opener Jared Noah (34) standing firm. Parvesh Chauhan managed […]
Our Premier league team were looking to redress the loss to Kagiso in the first round of fixtures when they chased down 270. They started well this time dismissing both our openers inside the first 10 overs. Mike Newland-Nell (85) and David Sartor (61) steadied the ship with a 144 partnership and then Luke Woolway […]
The Presidents team wanted to follow up last weeks good win with another victory which they did over Lenasia by 90 runs. We won the toss and batted but we did not get the start we wanted losing a wicket straight away. In fact we lost three wickets before the 5th over. Keegan van Rensberg […]
Keen to follow their win over Wanderers the Presidents team faced Randburg in a positive mood and Romeo Kasawayo and Evan Lynch put on 40 for the first wicket and then Kasawayo (28) followed next over. Conor MacFarlane joined Hayden Sweet but both fell cheaply and we were 65/4. Keegan van Rensberg (43) and Xolani […]