HITTING THE TOP SPOT

PILING ON PARKRUNS

Teenager Simamnkele Tyuthu was the first of 97 finishers at last Saturday’s parkrun in Makana botanical gardens, completing the 5km in a personal best time of 19 minutes 57 seconds.

While Markus Mostert completed his 100th parkrun, Nomfundo Siqwede has just one to go to her 100th.

Those with between 200 and 300 parkruns to their credit and who took part on Saturday were Mark Hazell (234), CeeJay Porthen (231) and Harry Porthen (219).

Then there were the two runners who are fast approaching the 400-mark, and they were at it again on Saturday Stavie van Aardt (398) and Peter Stockwell (396).

Parkruns are held at 8am each Saturday from the entrance to the botanical gardens in Lucas Avenue.

ST ANDREW’S UNBEATEN

Just three teams St Andrew’s College, Grey High School and Selborne College

remained unbeaten after four days of hockey at the annual Belgotex Tony Godding Hockey Festival hosted by Selborne in East London at the weekend.

As the tournament wound down, St Andrew’s came up against Grey College from Bloemfontein. Leading up to this match, the Makhandan side had registered wins over Hudson Park High (3-0), Voortrekker High (3-0) and Merrifield College (5-0).

While they conceded their first goal of the festival, St Andrew’s rallied to overcome the Bloemfontein side by two goals to one.

Other schools competing in the event were Dale College, Curro Waterstone, Woodridge College, Framesby High, Krugersdorp High and Linden High.

Ashton Burger of Graeme College put in a really great showing at the Alan Stapleton Open squash tournament in Gqeberha last week by winning the U14 division.

CBD RENAMING

Cuyler Street is a one-way street and lane running from New Street to High Street in the CBD that’s quite a well-known fact locally. But a little known fact is that, according to the listing of local streets compiled in the 1960s, Cuyler Street was once known as South Street. Cuyler Street was named after Colonel Cuyler, landdrost at Uitenhage (Kariega) at the time of the arrival of the 1820 Settlers.

TROPHIES FROM THE PAST

A former Grahamstown Football Association (GFA) committee member, GFA representative player and club player has, in safekeeping, two trophies of the now-defunct GFA, and occasionally gives them a ‘spit-and-polish’.

The silver trophies are the GFA League Cup first presented in 1902, and the Webb Cup, first presented in 1911 to the Fort England Football Club.

Back in the day, GFA matches were played in the main on the Fiddlers Green football ground near Church Square, while Fort England, the military base and Rhodes University had their own soccer grounds.