The four pre-tournament favourites at the
Sanlam Kay Motsepe national Finals tournament duly advanced to the semifinal
stage by winning their quarterfinal clashes at the Clive Solomon sports complex
in Bloemfontein’s Manguang earlier today.
Defending champions, the Harmony Sports
Academy of Virginia, representing the home province, beat KwaZulu-Natal’s
Ezibukweni High 1-0 to set upa semifinal meeting with Gauteng’s School of
Excellence, who were 2-1 winners over Lingelihle Secondary from the Eastern
Cape.
The other semi will be between ther two
sides who were probably the most impressive during the round-robin stage of the
tournament – Gauteng’s Rosina Sedibane, who beat Limpopo’s Mammoka High 1-0 in
their quarterfinal, and East High from Mpumalanga, who edged out Steenberg from
the Western Cape in a penalty shootout after the sides were locked on 0-all at
the end of normal time.
The semifinals will be at 3pm this
afternoon, while the final and third-place playoff game will take place at The
Central University of Technology grounds on Saturday.
The overall winners will walk off with
R1million in funding for projects are their school, with the runners up getting
R600 000, the 3rd placed school R500 000 and the 4th
placed R400 000.
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