Nearly 600 young soccer players from around the country declared the weekend’s three-day soccer tournament held at Kearsney College a resounding success.
Following last year’s inaugural Kearsney Soccer Tournament, this year 34 teams participated, demonstrating their skills in a competition played in a wonderful spirit of good sportsmanship and competitive fun.
Final winners in the three divisions were Pinetown Boys’ High (senior boys), St Mary’s DSG (senior girls) and Merchiston Prep (junior boys).
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Individual best players of the tournament were Khulekani Nxumalo (Pinetown Boys’ High) in the senior boys, Anna Birt (St Mary’s)in the senior girls, with James Magor (Highbury) and Lindokuhle Langa (Merchiston) from the junior boys’ teams.
In addition, this year the best players from each division were named in a Best 11 Team of the Tournament.
The senior boys’ teams that participated were Durban High School, Northwood and Clifton College (Durban); Maqhutshane Secondary and Siyajabula High (both KwaNyuswa); Curro Grantleigh (Richards Bay); Ashton Ballito; Paul Roos (Stellenbosch); Urban Academy (Gqeberha); Tuks Sport High School, Sutherland High and Curro Hazeldean (Gauteng); Lebone ll College (Rustenburg) with hosts Kearsney College, Thomas More and Pinetown Boys’ High from the Highway area.
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Participating girls’ high schools included Durban Girls High, Danville Park and Maris Stella (all Durban); St Mary’s and Thomas More (Kloof); Ashton Ballito; Curro Hazeldean (Pretoria) and Lebone ll College (Rustenburg).
They were joined by 10 local primary school teams — Hillcrest Primary, Kloof Senior Primary, Winston Park, Thomas More, Atholl Heights Primary, Ashton Ballito, Reddam Ballito, Merchiston from Pietermaritzburg, and two teams from Highbury Prep.
Kearsney headmaster Patrick Lees said, following the tremendous success of last year’s inaugural tournament, the College was proud to continue to be a catalyst in ensuring the development and growth of soccer among girls and boys at school level in South Africa.
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