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Day 1 Match 1
Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival. In the opening game of the 2025 Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival, Milnerton’s power play boosted them to a 34-18 win over the touring Zimbabwean team from Peterhouse Boys’ School.
The Western Cape side dominated the opening exchanges thanks largely to some abrasive attacking play and scored the first points of the festival via a Morgan Lodewyk penalty.
Milnerton were also relentless on both sides of the ball and extended their lead when their big midfielder barged over for the opening try, which he duly converted.
Those early setbacks seemed to jolt Peterhouse to life and they responded with a prolonged period of possession in the Milnerton half, finally being rewarded with three points, courtesy of the boot of Andrew Maringa.
House were still struggling to deal with Milnerton’s physicality at the contact point though, and Prosper Zimbango ultimately saw yellow after a series of repeated team infringements from the under-pressure Zimbabweans.
Mufaro Mawoyo
However, with time up at the end of the half, and completely against the run of play, Peterhouse second rower Mufaro Mawoyo broke through the Milnerton defensive line to reduce the deficit to 10-8 at the break.
The boys in white started the second half brightly, with another Maringa penalty edging them ahead, but lapses in concentration on defence allowed Lodewyk to score his second, before substitute Nicholas Young crucially added a third try soon thereafter.
It was a long way back from there for the tourists, and further tries through Kgaugelo Mokgobu and a brilliant individual effort from Akho Mkaya effectively ended the match as a contest.
Peterhouse hit back through a converted Michael Marimo try, but by then it was too little too late.
Scores
Milnerton High School
- Tries: Lodewyk (2), Young, Mokgobu, Mkaya
- Cons: Lodewyk, Mkaya (2)
- Pens: Lodewyk
Peterhouse Boys’ School
- Tries: Mawoyo, Marimo
- Cons: Watt
- Pens: Maringa (2)
- Yellow card: Zimbango
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