Pearson High\u2019s top seven tennis boys were invited to the Gerrie Berner tournament, held in Stellenbosch from February 12-15, to play against arguably the best tennis schools in the country.<\/p>\n
The tournament began with Pearson edging Outeniqua 4-3 in a close encounter to secure the perfect start.<\/p>\n
Hosts Paul Roos were Pearson\u2019s next opponents and the Gqeberha team went down 7-0, though there were a number of nailbiting matches going to the final set and into tiebreakers. <\/p>\n
Pearson then bounced back against Kearsney, defeating them 5-2, with standout performances from Alex Hurter, who delivered a top-class singles display, and Tyler Stanham, whose excellent team effort made a big impact throughout the first day.<\/p>\n
On the second day Pearson had a tough match against Westville, going down 6-1, setting up a crucial clash against Waterkloof to decide who would finish third in the pool.<\/p>\n
What followed was one of the biggest wins in Pearson\u2019s history. <\/p>\n
In a high-pressure decider, Hurter stepped up and delivered a top-class performance to seal a massive victory for Pearson.<\/p>\n
With momentum on their side, Pearson moved into the playoffs for positions 5-8, where they defeated Hermanus 4-2.<\/p>\n
They then came up against Grey College to battle it out for fifth place and after a gruelling playoff, they eventually had to settle for sixth spot.<\/p>\n
The team consisted of Evan Swart, Alexander Hurter, Petri Reynolds, Tyler Stanham, Drew Stanham, MG Saayman and Lian Payne, along with coach Janre Viljoen and manager Connan de Wee.<\/p>\n
The final placings were: 1 Paul Roos Gymnasium, 2 Paarl Boys\u2019, 3 Westville, 4 Affies, 5 Grey College, 6 Pearson, 7 Kearsney, 8 Hermanus High, 9 Waterkloof, 10 Outeniqua, 11 St Stithians, 12 Oakdale Landbou.<\/p>\n
Not to be outshone, the Pearson girls\u2019 first cricket team competed in the Reddam House Constantia Girls\u2019 Festival of T20 cricket.<\/p>\n
Opening their programme against Northern Cricket Union from Ireland, Pearson scored 134\/3 and then restricted NCU to 116\/8, with Peyton Scheepers taking 4\/20.<\/p>\n
Against Wellington from England, Pearson scored 154\/5, Cayleigh Wanckel contributing with a magnificent 89 not out. <\/p>\n
Pearson managed to hold Wellington to 134\/6 to win by 20 runs with a solid performance by Zan\u00e9 Swanepoel of 3\/16. <\/p>\n
Their second match of the day was against Reddam Constantia, with Wanckel once again proving her worth with a solid 95 not out. <\/p>\n
She also took two wickets, while Swanepoel and Scheepers also took two apiece in a 78-run win.<\/p>\n
The final match of the tournament saw Pearson score 147\/9 against Stellenberg and then dismissing their opponents for 102.<\/p>\n
Wanckel was named the batter of the tournament for her sterling performances throughout the event.<\/p>\n
The Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pearson High\u2019s top seven tennis boys were invited to the Gerrie Berner tournament, held in Stellenbosch from February…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[245092,64,63,245093,740,245091,69329,85,747],"class_list":["post-483709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alex-hurter","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cayleigh-wanckel","tag-cricket","tag-gerrie-berner","tag-pearson","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}