A frenetic 4 days throughout two Western Cape venues have reached their conclusion and our champions have been topped. In the end it was the defending champions in each tournaments who adopted comparable scripts to reverse their pool stage defeat and emerge victorious.
Within the girls’s A Part ultimate Western Province took on KZN Raiders trying to finish a three-year maintain on the trophy. The hosts had produced a superb efficiency to finish an extended undefeated run for the KZN Raiders within the pool stage, their first defeat since 2019 and have been hopeful of including to that within the ultimate.
Isabella Booyens opened the scoring for Western Province early on and it was a lead they held till half time. They might give up the lead when a mis-trap noticed the ball come throughout to Tatum Kroutz who made no mistake to stage the rating.
With seconds left within the third quarter KZN Raiders took the lead for the primary time. Western Province was unable to clear their strains and Malikah Hamza popped up and completed to punish the chance.
A superb run from Kelsey Swanepoel noticed her convert to stretch the result in 3-1 earlier than Western Province arrange a grand stand end when captain Jamie Southgate pulled a purpose again. The hosts poured all the things in, together with pulling their keeper from the sport as they looked for an equalizer. However Malikah Hamza took benefit of the open purpose and slammed it residence to seal a fourth consecutive title and eighth in 9 years.
Within the males’s event Southern Gauteng had secured a spot within the ultimate with a 100% document within the pool stage together with a superb 7-6 win in an ill-tempered group stage recreation.
It was an enthralling battle between the 2 giants of indoor hockey which was finally determined by a 3rd quarter blitz. Liam Hermanus gave Southerns the lead from a penalty nook, but it surely was a lead that lasted solely 4 minutes when Ryan Julius scored on the counter.
Province netted not one however two strikes within the ultimate minutes of the opening quarter via Mustapha Cassiem and Hans Neethling. Travis Krumples and Neethling exchanged targets earlier than JP Britz made it 4-3 on the half time break.
Then got here the Western Province storm to maneuver it to 9-3 and 10-4. Neethling scored a hat-trick and Litha Kraai produced his personal magic to set the group into the frenzy.
Southern Gauteng made the sport attention-grabbing with an excellent ultimate quarter to drag it again to 10-8 however the recreation ended with Western Province victorious and securing a fifth consecutive title.
Earlier within the day the WP Peninsula males secured promotion to the A piece with a 6-4 win in opposition to the WP Disa males with Luthando Jonas getting a double. Within the girls’s B part event, the KZN Mynahs secured promotion with a superb battering of the Northern Daisies.
SPAR & Tops at SPAR Indoor Hockey IPT 2024 – Particular person Awards
Males’s Participant of the Event – Dalpiarro Langford (Southern Gauteng)Males’s Younger Participant of the Event – Travis Krumples (Southern Gauteng)Males’s Prime Objective scorer – Mustapha Cassiem (Western Province)Males’s Goalkeeper of the Event – Bongumusa Mngoma (KZN Raiders)
Womens Participant of the Event – Daniella de Oliveira (Western Province)Womens Younger Participant of the Event – Laiken Brisset (Northern Blues)Womens Prime Objective scorer – Cerian Fourie (Northern Blues)Womens Goalkeeper of the Event – Sarah Paget (Southern Gauteng)
SPAR & Tops at SPAR Indoor Hockey IPT 2024 – Closing Standings
Males’s – A Part
Western Province Southern Gauteng KZN Raiders Northern Blues SG Witsies Mpumalanga KZN Mynahs
Males’s – B Part
WP Peninsula WP Disa Japanese Province Northern Daisies
Womens – A Part
KZN Raiders Western Province Northern Blues North West Southern Gauteng Mpumalanga WP Peninsula SG Witsies
Womens – B Part
KZN Mynahs Northern Daises WP Disa Japanese Gauteng A Japanese Province Japanese Gauteng B
SPAR & Tops at SPAR Indoor Hockey IPT 2024 – Day 4 Outcomes
Males’s A SectionWestern Province 6-2 SG WitsiesSouthern Gauteng 4-3 KZN RaidersKZN Mynahs 3-4 Northern BluesFinal – Western Province 10-8 Southern Gauteng
Males’s B SectionBronze Medal – Northern Blues 0-12 Japanese ProvinceFinal – WP Disa 4-6 WP Peninsula
Ladies’s A Section5th Playoff – Mpumalanga 1-2 Southern Gauteng7th Playoff – SG Witsies 0-2 WP PeninsulaBronze Medal – Northern Blues 4-0 North WestFinal – KZN Raiders 4-2 Western Province
Ladies’s B SectionBronze – Japanese Gauteng A 0-4 WP Disa5th Playoff – Japanese Province 2-0 Japanese Gauteng BFinal – KZN Mynahs 7-0 Northern Daisies
