{"id":243671,"date":"2026-05-26T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243671\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:54:41","slug":"queens-finish-with-strong-surge-to-hold-hudson-at-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243671\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s finish with strong surge to hold Hudson at bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Kingswood proved too strong for Port Rex, in Komani Queen\u2019s College<\/a> overcame some moments of anxiety with 19 minutes remaining to score a solid 40-22 victory in their school\u2019s rugby clash against Hudson Park at the Rec ground on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In Makhanda, home team Kingswood<\/a> went on the rampage against the luckless Port Rex side, giving a polished performance to win 66-7. It was a tough week for Port Rex as they suffered a heavy defeat against Selborne last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Queen\u2019s led 20-14 at the break but then had to watch as Hudson took control of the early part of the second half to give themselves a chance of victory as they scored nine points to lead 22-20 in the 51st minute.<\/p>\n

Suddenly it did not seem all plain sailing for the Queenians, but they regrouped in admirable fashion a few minutes later to score from a rolling maul before hooker Nande Tiwani produced one of the highlights of the match when he found himself in space and sprinted about 30m for another try.<\/p>\n

That took them to 34-22, providing some much-needed daylight for their supporters, and flyhalf Bongo Nyakaza then made it safe by kicking two more penalties to settle the final outcome.<\/p>\n

Nyakaza, in fact, played an important role with his boot, slotting four conversions and four penalties for a personal tally of 20 points.<\/p>\n

Other tries for Queen\u2019s came from Zino Lali, Ncutu Kepe and Zimi Deleki.<\/p>\n

Following an early try by scrumhalf Zizibele Mtongwana, Hudson crossed again in the 11th minute for one of the game\u2019s best tries when big centre Athan Gravett went on a superb break to put Mtongwana in again for a score under the posts.<\/p>\n

In the second half, wing Cwenga Bityo beat the cover defence for another good try, while he also added 10 points with the boot.<\/p>\n

At Ooskus Gimnasium, Stirling came from behind with a late try to edge the home side 19-18, while other matches saw big wins for Selborne and Dale.<\/p>\n

For Stirling, Iyazi Mbhele crossed for a hat-trick of tries.<\/p>\n

In Qonce, Dale proved too strong for Cambridge, setting up their 59-7 win by jumping out to a 33-0 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Kingswood proved too strong for Port Rex, in Komani Queen\u2019s College overcame some moments of anxiety with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[60267,95180,95181,95185,9,24,63,95182,95186,95184,122,124,123,22922,95183],"class_list":["post-243671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-eastern-cape-school-rugby","tag-hudson-park","tag-kingswood","tag-kingswood-rugby","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-port-rex","tag-port-rex-rugby","tag-queens-college-vs-hudson-park","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rugby","tag-schools-rugby-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}