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Easter Rugby Festival 2026. Day two, match one.
The early morning mist lifted over Botha’s Hill as Peterhouse Boys of Zimbabwe and Milnerton High from Cape Town opened Day Two of the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival (KERF) on Stott Field. Both sides promised running rugby, and they delivered a lung-busting thriller.
Milnerton struck first: captain Chadlin Sellidon coolly slotted a 40-meter penalty after five minutes. Peterhouse replied immediately, stringing together phases from the restart before flyhalf Victor Watama stepped sharply off his right foot to score. His conversion drifted wide, but moments later, he added a penalty to put the Zimbabweans 8–3 ahead.
Peterhouse’s forwards, led by powerhouse no. 8 Prosper Zimbango, kept Milnerton under pressure. Yet Sellidon engineered a breakout from deep, earning another penalty which he converted to narrow the gap. Again, Peterhouse roared back: scrumhalf Tasso Dombropoulos finished off sustained pressure to make it 13–6.
Milnerton responded in kind. From a five-meter scrum, no. 9 Charl Michaux dived over, leaving the score delicately poised at 13–11 at halftime.
Early in the second half, Watama added three more points, but Milnerton’s right wing Akho Mkaya powered into the corner to level matters. Sellidon’s conversion attempt struck the upright and bounced over, giving Millies a slender lead. Watama quickly restored Peterhouse’s advantage with another penalty, 19–18.
With 15 minutes left, a clever cross-kick found wing Bradley Marange, who offloaded brilliantly to Zviko Matipano for a try that stretched the lead. Soon after, Watama’s vision produced a deft grubber behind the defence, perfectly gathered by Matipano for his second score.
Milnerton refused to fold, and Troy Ferreira crossed late to keep the contest alive, but Peterhouse held firm to claim a 29–23 victory—sweet revenge for their 18–34 defeat to the same opponents at KERF 2025.
Final Score
Peterhouse Boys 29 (13)
- Tries: Zviko Matipano (2), Victor Watama, Tasso Dombropoulos
- Penalties: Victor Watama (3)
Milnerton High 23 (11)
- Tries: Charl Michaux, Akho Mkaya, Troy Ferreira
- Conversions: Chadlin Sellidon
- Penalties: Chadlin Sellidon (2)
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