2011 champions, Hoërskool Waterkloof won the
Northerns Coca-Cola® T20 Schools Challenge Provincial Finals and now stand the
chance of representing the Titans at the Coca-Cola T20 Schools Challenge
national finals that will be played between the 15th and 17th
March 2019 in Pretoria.
This year’s provincial finals were played over two
days with eight schools divided into two pools of play to represent their
province in the Titans franchise final. The schools that made it were Hoërskool
Garsfontein, Hoërskool Waterkloof, Prestige College and Cornwall Hill College
who were in group A, while group B was made up by Pretoria Boys High, St Albans
College, Midstream College and Hoërskool Centurion.
Hoërskool Waterkloof and Hoërskool Centurion won
their respective groups and met each other in the final. Hoërskool Waterkloof
beat Prestige College by 39 runs, Hoërskool Garsfontein by 22 runs and Cornwall
Hill College by 8 wickets respectively to get to the final.
In the final, Hoërskool Centurion got off to a great
start and had Hoërskool Waterkloof in trouble at 32/3 and 64/4 before Hoërskool
Waterkloof fought back to post a very good total of 177 thanks to the 97 runs
from Jordan Hermann who got his century
after batting nearly the entire innings.
Hoërskool Centurion came in to bat with Richardt
Ackerman posting 26/3 and Simeon de Bruyn posting 4/15 making sure that
Centurion were never in the match and bowled them out for 136. Hoërskool
Waterkloof won by 41 runs.
The winner of the Franchise finals will join other
five franchises winners and the two schools that qualified though the CSA Focus School programme at the
competition’s National Finals at the University of Pretoria from the 15th to
17th March 2019. The Coca-Cola T20 School Challenge winner stands to walk away with
R110 000.00 for their school.
Results
Group
Stage:
Hoërskool Garsfontein 198/4
(C Meiring 95*, B van der Walt 50, K Ngwenya 2/37) vs Prestige College 85 all
out (S Mothise 39, L Stigling 4/26, R van Niekerk 2/17)
Garsfontein won by 113 runs
Cornwall Hill College 141/4
(K de la Mare 67, K Rust 35, S de Bruyn 3/21) vs Hoërskool
Waterkloof 144/2 (H Coetzer 48*, J Hermann 44*, T Khabele 2/20)
Waterkloof won by 8 wickets
Pretoria Boys 209/2 (W Truter 105, H Viljoen 62) vs Midstream
College 109/7 (W Mushwana 2/13)
Pretoria Boys High won by 100 runs
Hoërskool Centurion 115/8
(H Jeeva 3/20) vs St Albans College 93/9 (J Eybers 2/9)
Centurion won by 22 runs
Hoërskool Waterkloof 144/9
(H Coetzer 35, D Koorts 2/18) vs Hoërskool
Garsfontein 122 all out (E de Waal 49, A Maseshla 3/20)
Waterkloof won by 22 runs
Cornwall Hill College 208/1
(K Rust 95*, J Neil 91*) vs Prestige College 150/6 (T Baloyi 72, B Jansen 2/9)
Cornwall Hill won by 58 runs
Pretoria Boys 169/4 (A Schutte 61, T Ferguson 56*) vs Hoërskool Centurion 172/6 (C van den Heever 80, D
van der Merwe 3/23)
Centurion won by 4 wickets
Cornwall Hill College 114/6
(J Neil 39, D Koorts 2/6) vs Hoërskool Garsfontein
115/6 (R van Niekerk 47*, P Trotter 2/21)
Garsfontein won by 4 wickets
Hoërskool Waterkloof 196/6
(S de Bruyn 54*, S Kemp 48, K Mphahlele 2/12) vs Prestige College 147/9 (S
Mothise 36, K Verhoef 3/31, R Ackerman 3/31)
Waterkloof won by 49 runs
Pretoria Boys 193/6 (T Ferguson 69, N Meyer 58, B Leonard 3/13) vs
St Albans College 58 all out (L Treadwell 3/1, R van Rooyen 3/3)
Pretoria Boys won by 135 runs
Midstream College 119/6 (D Esterhuizen 35, J Vorster 2/15) vs Hoërskool Centurion 120/3 (N Fox 50)
Centurion won by 7 wickets
Midstream College 121/8 (D Esterhuizen 43, A du Plessis 5/28) vs
St Albans College 80 all out (D Esterhuizen 4/13)
Midstream won by 41 runs
Final
Hoërskool Waterkloof 177/8 (J Hermann 97, C Mouton
3/23, N Fox 3/37) vs Hoërskool Centurion 136 all out (N Fox 38, S de Bruyn
4/15, R Ackerman 3/26)
Waterkloof won by 41 runs.
