In a week of busy sporting fixtures, Pearson High School\u2019s girls showed their fortitude as they took on DSG in tennis, and Collegiate in cricket, at Pearson.<\/p>\n
The home side delivered a memorable performance at the Theron tennis courts, edging past DSG in a closely contested and exciting encounter.<\/p>\n
The team got off to a strong start in the doubles, with excellent wins from Milla Biggs and Bhakti Govindjee, and Amy Stuart and Erin Dold-Chapman giving them an early advantage and setting the tone for the match.<\/p>\n
In the singles, Stuart, playing at number one, produced a commanding display to secure an impressive 8-1 victory. <\/p>\n
She was joined by Biggs, the talented Grade 8 newcomer, who once again proved her class with an equally convincing 8-1 win in her singles match.<\/p>\n
With the overall result hanging in the balance, Milani Somyalo rose to the occasion.<\/p>\n
Showing great resilience and composure after a slow start, she fought back strongly to claim an 8-5 victory, sealing the match for Pearson in dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n
The final score of 5-4 to Pearson reflected a true team effort, highlighted by determination, quality tennis and excellent sportsmanship throughout.<\/p>\n
As part of a midweek fixture, Collegiate took on Pearson\u2019s first team in a Twenty20 cricket match.<\/p>\n
Collegiate batted first and made 51 all out. Pearson\u2019s Cayleigh Wanckel dominated the bowling attack, claiming 5\/11 in her allotted overs. <\/p>\n
She was ably assisted by Peyton Scheepers (2\/8) and Kayla McLagan (1\/5).<\/p>\n
Pearson responded with 55\/2 in 11.4 overs. Wanckel proved why she has been selected for the SA U19 girls\u2019 cricket team, showing her strength with both bat and ball, scoring 29 runs.<\/p>\n
Pearson also hosted arguably the largest boys\u2019 second team water polo tournament in the country at the weekend, involving 20 teams and more than 300 players.<\/p>\n
Following the cross-pool matches on Saturday it came down to Paul Roos Gym and Selborne to battle it out for third place, with Bishops and Rondebosch competing for the top spot.<\/p>\n
The final match of the day, between Bishops and Rondebosch, was one worth watching, with Bishops winning the tournament for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n
Bishops took control of the game with some quick goals, but Rondebosch fought back and levelled matters by the end of the second chukka.<\/p>\n
The holders, however, showed their determination to keep the trophy, scoring twice more in the final chukka to win 7-5.<\/p>\n
Awards went to: James Ciolli (Bishops, best defender), Gabriel Pierce (Selborne, best goalkeeper), Ben van de Hoek (Rondebosch, best defender)<\/p>\n
The final placings were: 1 Bishops, 2 Rondebosch, 3 Selborne, 4 Paul Roos, 5 St David\u2019s, 6 Bishops 3rd, 7 St Stithians, 8 Michaelhouse, 9 Merrifield, 10 St Andrew\u2019s, 11 Wynberg, 12 Clifton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a week of busy sporting fixtures, Pearson High School\u2019s girls showed their fortitude as they took on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[161606,49,48,185508,35757,185507,118216,185509,82,593,95936],"class_list":["post-450845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-bishops","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-collegiate","tag-cricket","tag-dsg","tag-pearson","tag-second-teams","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-water-polo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}