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With three wins from four matches and 24 goals scored the Steinhoff Maties Hockey men are in the third spot of the the Varsity Sports Hockey tournament’s log.
The tournament started last Friday with the first round matches all played at the University of Johannesburg. Maties got off to a bad start with a 3-5 loss to the defending champions, UJ. On Saturday they started to play like a team that can challenge for the title with a 4-0 win over Kovsies. But on Sunday and Monday they walloped their opponents with 17 goals and conceding only one in victories over the Madibaz (8-0) and Pukke (9-1). These send out clear warnings that Maties are finally warmed up and ready go one better than in 2014 when they lost in the final after a penalty shootout.
Top scorers thus for Maties are Shannon Boucher (4), Keenan Horne (4), James Drummond (3), Charlie Bowren (3) and Dylan Swanepoel (3).
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Maties are in third place with 9 points. Wits’ team is fourth also with 9 points, but Maties have a healthy goal difference. UJ and Tukkies are both still undefeated and respectively first and second on the log.
This coming weekend the action is in Stellenbosch at the Coetzenburg astro with games on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Entrance is R20 and if you book online R10. Maties will play Tukkies, Ikeys and Wits. The semi-final round is on Monday. The final is on 23 May. The match against Ikeys will also be an Intervarsity clash.
All Maties’ matches are at 18:45 and action starts daily at 13:30.
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