All to play for at u-18 Youth Weeks
Coca-Cola Craven week will be played this week.
The u-18 Coca-Cola Craven Week and Coca-Cola Academy Week players will have more than ‘playing to their potential’ and ‘earning top honours in the tournaments’ on their mind when they take to the field at St Stithians College in Johannesburg during this week, with selection to the South African Schools’ teams to spur them on.
The SA Schools’ team for the u-19 International series in August will be selected from these competitions, which will serve as extra motivation for the players to deliver their best performances.
The annual competition will be hosted in Cape Town and features three rounds of matches on August 11, 14 and 19 respectively, with the SA Schools’ team facing Wales, France and England.
The two u-18 Coca-Cola Youth weeks were a follow-on to two weeks of tournaments in the SA Rugby Youth Weeks Series, which included the u-16 Coca-Cola Grant Khomo Week and u-13 Coca-Cola Craven Week in Bloemfontein, the Learners with Special Education Needs (LSEN) Week in Durban and the National Girls u-18 Week in Welkom.
The thrilling action kicked off early on Monday, with the Tshepa Trading Griffons meeting GWK Griquas CD in the opening match of the u-18 Coca-Cola Craven week, while the Valke took on the Limpopo Blue Bulls in the first match.
The main matches of the day in the u-18 Coca-Cola Craven week will see DHL Western Province, who finished the competition as the top team last season, take on the Pumas, and the hosts – the Bidvest Waltons Lions – go up against Border.
The big match-ups in the Coca-Cola Academy Week will feature DHL Western Province, who also took top honours last season, and Boland, while the Sharks will meet SWD.
The ten remaining teams in the u-18 Coca-Cola Craven Week and 14 teams in the Coca-Cola Academy will battle it out in their opening round on Tuesday.
The matches will continue on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, with all the teams having Friday off to recover.
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