Author: Stephen Kisbey-Green

Graeme College Senior Cricket Graeme 2nd XI vs St Andrews SAC 198/7 after 30 overs (reduced) Dylan Riley 3 for 39 Intle Mancoko 4 for 42 Graeme 101 all out. Raven Bush 37 SAC won by 97 runs. Graeme u14B vs St Andrews SAC 188 after 20 overs. Graeme 126 all out. SAC won by 62 runs. Graeme College Junior Cricket Graeme College u9 vs Clarendon Clarendon 100 all out E Oerson 2 for 7 Graeme 55 all out. Clarendon won by 45 runs. Graeme College u11B vs Clarendon Clarendon 142 al out. Greme 117 all out. Clarendon won by…

For the fifth time in its long and prestigious history, the St Andrew’s College first team took home first place in the 2018 edition of the Vides Water Polo Tournament. This achievement is notable considering that the side had  no fewer that seven Grade 10 pupils in the starting lineup. Tracing its inception back to 1982, the Vides tournament is the oldest water polo tournament in South Africa. With teams such as Paul Roos, Grey College Bloemfontein and Grey High School participating, the tournament has never been short of  big names. After winning the tournament, SAC captain Andrew Ramsden said,…

WIN TWO TICKETS TO THE PRO14 ON FRIDAY 2 MARCH 2018 The Southern Kings return home on Friday 2 March after their most recent loss in the Pro14 against Leinster last week. The Irish side took advantage of the home conditions and ran out massive 64-7 victors in that match, as the Kings move onto this week’s fixtures still in search of their first win in the Pro14. The Kings will welcome the Dragons from Wales in their first home match since mid-January in 2018. The Dragons are sitting in second last place of their Pro14 log, just one position…

With a father a former Free State Easterns player and raised with a passion for cricket from an early age, Francois van Rooyen has developed into the top all-rounder in the Grahamstown Cricket Board (GCB) first league. He is the second best batsman in the first league (with 432 runs) and fifth best bowler (with 18 wickets), beating out many specialist players in both categories. The 22-year old started life playing backyard cricket aged just four, and started his first match at six. He idolised Hansie Cronje and Jacques Kallis for their outstanding all-round game. At 14 Van Rooyen played…

After Allister Coetzee’s axing two weeks ago, Rassie Erasmus has taken on the imposition of interim Springbok coach up until the World Cup in 2019. After the World Cup, a new head coach is expected to be appointed, with Erasmus reverting back to the Director of Rugby role. The interesting question at the point of writing is who is the best suited to take on the important role of Springbok coach? Tank Lanning, known as Front Row Grunt on Twitter and a former Western Province Prop, believes that the front-runner to the Springbok job is Deon Davids, the current Southern…

The 24th Pick n Pay Night Bowls tournament is nearing its end with only the final left to be played. With 40 teams participating throughout the tournament today (Friday 2 March) will see the top two teams in the main and plate events respectively facing off in the finals at the Grahamstown Bowls Club. The knockout stages of this year’s competition commenced on 26 February, with 16 teams in each event. In the main event, Buco 46 defeated 3/4 Black 19-8, Videotronic toppled Toppies 23-5, Bad Boys pipped Pheasant Pluckers 22-10, and Albany Vikings saw off East Cape Electrical 15-11. The Operational Rats…

With Valentine’s Day this week, we asked around the sporting community whether or not sport was seen as a good or bad thing in a relationship. Here are the different takes on sports relationships from around the town. Busi Mantawule “Yes it is on my side because in sport you get to learn a lot how to communicate in a good manner. Sport teaches you as a person to able to express yourself plus to be able to deal with so many kinds of attitudes – although I am not sure in what way! Sport is a key to meet new…

On Friday 9 February it was announced that Rosko Specman has been awarded the South African Rugby Sevens Player of the Year award for 2017. This comes after a stellar season during which he helped the Blitzbokke win the HSBC Sevens Series champions, winning the SA rugby team of the year and coach Neil Powell also being named Coach of the Year at the SA Rugby Awards. “Neil and his band of Blitzbok brothers made us all very proud last year,”said Mark Alexander, the SA rugby president, “and these awards are very well deserved.” In addition to the Sevens player…

With the announcement on Friday that Allister Coetzee and the South African Rugby Union (SARU) have parted ways, many will look at the two years that Coetzee was at the helm of the Springboks as a failure. While SARU has many deep rooted issues that need to be addressed before South African rugby can regain its former glory, it cannot be ignored that Coetzee coached the Springboks to a number of record defeats and should be held accountable as head coach. Coetzee came into the position as head coach in rather uncertain circumstances. Heyneke Meyer had recently coached the Springboks…

The South African Sevens side, which includes the Grahamstown local Rosko Specman, moved back to the top of the HSBC Sevens World Series Table on Sunday, after finishing second in the New Zealand leg of the series. The Blitzbokke fell to a dominant performance from the flying Fijians in the final of the Hamilton tournament on 4 February 2018. Specman was ruled out through injury before the final, after putting in a series of excellent performances throughout the tournament. Specman had scored a double against Papua New Guinea in South Africa’s first match of the tournament, before scoring a try…