THE 101st overall tournament of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge heads to 031 for the Durban Central Regional, hosted by Durban Girls’ College on Saturday, 7 March.
Eight teams will take to College’s astro. Split into two pools, Durban Girls’ College will face Durban Girls’ High School, Inanda Seminary and Ridge Park in Pool A. While Pool B sees St Henry’s Marist College, Maris Stella, the INK team and Port Natal School battle it out.
The duration of the matches will be 20 minutes, with no half time. A win in the pool games will see a team awarded four points, a draw with goals two points, a goalless draw only one point and a loss equating to no points.
A total of 12 pool games will be played, followed by the two semi-finals. Teams who finished fourth in the pool games will then face each other to reveal seventh and eighth places. Third place in the pool games will challenge each other for the positions of fifth and sixth places.
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In the penultimate game, the losers of both semi-finals will then take to the turf, with the winner earning third spot. Finishing the day off will be the main regional title game featuring the two winners from the semi-finals.
Only one school has been crowned the regional champion in all nine of this area’s tournaments and is the only team in the history of this tournament to have a 100 per cent record at the Grand Finals. Nine times winners, Durban Girls’ College will be keen to continue their outright dominance in this region in the hopes of notching up their 10th overall title.
This will be the second regional this year, with the tournament having travelled to Vryheid on 29 February. The first team to earn a spot at the Grand Finals is Hoërskool Pionier.
The next regional, the Durban North Regional, takes place at the recently launched astro at Ashton International in Ballito the day after the Durban Central Regional on Sunday, 8 March.
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