Coca-Cola Schools T20 action resumes

WITH the school year back in full swing, the Coca-Cola Schools T20 Challenge continues its fifth season with 650 schools, hubs and composite teams fighting it out for a place in the finals weekend in Potchefstroom from March 18 to 20.

Most regions are finishing off the round-robin phase, while some have reached regional finals, with teams making their final plays for the opportunity to represent their franchise for the ultimate, R120 000 cash prize.

In Gauteng the round-robin matches continue with most of the other regions ending theirs.

In Kimberley, Northern Cape High (NCH) continued their regional domination in this year’s tournament, beating Diamantveld High by 62 runs in the Northern Cape final.

At Kei, the regional final was won by Mthatha International, who beat Dalubuhle Senior Secondary by six wickets. The main regional winner will be determined through a play-off between the Border, Kei and Eastern Province regional teams. In Boland, still in the round-robin stage, Paarl Gimnasium beat Worcester Gimnasium by eight wickets in a low scoring match.

In the other match played, Boland Landbou beat Somerset College by four wickets. The latter posted 110/9, but their bowlers could not bowl out the Landbou batsmen.

In the Free State, St Andrews scored a big win over HTS Louis Botha, beating them by 129 runs. St Andrews posted 150/6 and bowled out HTS for just 21 runs for victory.

In other matches, Voortrekker beat AHS Kroonstad by 10 wickets, Grey College 2 beat Jim Fouche by 107 runs, Welkom Gimnasium beat Goudveld by five runs and Kroonstad High School beat Sasolburg High by five wickets.

In the South Western Districts (SWD), Hoërskool Sentraal beat Union High by 66 runs.

Other results from the SWD include Oakhill High beating Point High by 46 runs and Outeniqua High suffered a double-blow, returning big losses by 131 runs and seven wickets against Oakdale and Oakhill respectively.