Good results for Kingswood

KINGSWOOD and Woodridge drew their first-team cricket match in Grahamstown on Saturday.

Sent in to bat in overcast conditions, the home side recovered after the early loss of Cameron Lombaard through Justin Potgieter (49) and Liam O Sullivan (29).

Nic Wilmot (41) joined Potgieter and the pair added 60 for the third wicket.

An important 40-run eighth-wicket partnership between Ant Sandys Thomas (28no) and William Pieterse (12) in seven overs enabled Kingswood to declare their innings on 197/8 after 56 overs.

This left them 43 overs to try to bowl out Woodridge, while the visitors needed to score at 4½ runs to the over to reach their target.

Going into the final 20 overs of the match, Woodridge had their backs to the wall at 60/6.

Kingswood went on an all-out attack but were unable to dismiss Kayle Russell (33no) and Cody Schoeman (16no), who fought hard while taking their team to 113/6 at the close.

WATER POLO

PLAYING in the Alexander Road Festival at the weekend, the Kingswood U16 girls’ team went through their programme unbeaten.

The best performances were against York and the Dolphins where they won 4-0 and 11-0 respectively.

Three Kingswood pupils have been selected for national teams. They are Amy Mills (SA U17B), Taya Trivella (Zimbabwe U18A) and Tilabo Williamson (SA U18A non-travelling reserve).

BASKETBALL

THE Kingswood basketball teams enjoyed considerable success this weekend.

The boys’ teams played against Grey High, with the first team winning 24-21 in a nail-biting finish.

The best performance came from the girls’ first team, who beat Western Suburban Support Forum Basketball 49-20.