Westville celebrates triumphant win against Michaelhouse

WESTVILLE Boys’ High School could not have asked for a better start to their winter sport season, winning every rugby match against the Midland’s Michaelhouse boys and losing only one hockey match.

Westville’s 1st XV got off to the best possible start after scoring from a beautiful phase attack. They went through a few neat phases and stretched Michaelhouse to leave Nqubeko Mkwanazi with a clear run in to the try line for a five point start with no conversion.

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One could be forgiven for assuming that it would be a dominant performance from Westville after such a start, but Michaelhouse regrouped and fought back valiantly to take the lead with two tries of their own. Their forwards were proving to be quite a handful for the Westville defense and they were getting good momentum around the fringes of the ruck. Of their two tries, only one was converted. Westville replied with two tries before half time. The first was a penalty try after Michaelhouse illegally stopped a powerful Westville mall on route to the try line. The other was an incredible bit of handling and interlinking. The ball ended up in Josh Forsyth’s hands who passed a long pass inside to twin brother Kyle Forsyth to score. Dylan Labuschagne converted to take Westville into the lead at half time 19-12.

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The second half was full of more drama with Westville scoring a try through Deon Slabbert. Michaelhouse then took advantage of some careless defense on the blindside with an unconverted try on their own. They followed this up with a penalty to take the score to 26-20. Westville showed true resilience when Michaelhouse came with a wave after wave attack. The team held on and twice held up the Michaelhouse attack when they had crossed the try line. You could sense that Westville had won a big psychological battle and with Michaelhouse still wondering how they had not scored again, Westville somewhat against the run of play went on to score a try through Teague Loelly at the death of the game. No conversion took the end score to 31-20.

Rugby results:
1st won 31-20
2nd won 26-10
3rd won 17-7
4th won 34-26
5th won 17-12
6th won 26-8
16a won 53-7
16b won 31-0
16c won 44-21
16d won 22-19
15a won 17-8
15b won 53-12
15d vs MH 15c won 63-0
15e vs MH 15d won 48-0
14a won 55-7
14c vs MH 14b won 55-0
14d vs MH 14c won 50-0
14e vs Clifton 14b won 24-7

Hockey results:
1st loss 1-2
2nd drew 2-2
3rd won 1-0
4th won 3-0
5th won 2-1
16a won 2-0
16b won 3-0
16c won 3-1
16d won 5-1
16e won 2-1
14a won 3-0
14b won 4-1
14c won 2-0
14d won 1-0

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