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Senior hockey girls conquer hosts on own turf
Not even the novelty of playing on astro turf could deter Stanford Lake College’s (SLC) first and second girls’ hockey teams from victory during a recent day of friendly matches hosted by Hoërskool Ben Vorster (Vossies). The first girls’ team narrowly beat their hosts 4-3 while the second team could celebrate a 4-2 win. Vossies …
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Not even the novelty of playing on astro turf could deter Stanford Lake College’s (SLC) first and second girls’ hockey teams from victory during a recent day of friendly matches hosted by Hoërskool Ben Vorster (Vossies).
The first girls’ team narrowly beat their hosts 4-3 while the second team could celebrate a 4-2 win. Vossies had the upper hand in the u.14 (4-1) and u.16 (1-0) girls’ matches while SLC’s 1st, second and u.15 boys lost 0-1, 0-5 and 1-2 respectively.
Rona McGaffin, marketer at the school commented that they were looking forward to inviting the Vossies for a similar day of sport at their own astro turf hockey field next year.
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