{"id":109075,"date":"2015-12-23T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T06:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=109075"},"modified":"2015-12-18T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T11:07:39","slug":"sporting-highlights-for-may-and-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/12\/23\/sporting-highlights-for-may-and-june-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting highlights for May and June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May and June&#8217;s 2015 sports throwback.<\/p>\n<p>May:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Industrial Soccer League (ISL) held its first Top Eight Knock-out Tournament final at Hattingh Park in Primrose.<\/li>\n<li>Assumption Convent School\u2019s first netball team competed in the Saint Stithian\u2019s Netball Festival winning all six of their matches.<\/li>\n<li>Parkhill Gardens\u2019 Samantha Schutte (15) was among the u-18s selected to represent South Africa at the Indoor Cricket World Cup in Australia.<\/li>\n<li>Nadia Calore, from Albemarle, was honoured at the Alberton Swimming Club\u2019s 2014\/15 gala dinner prize-giving. Calore made a clean sweep in all the events for the u-14 girls age group. Calore came first in butterfly, breaststroke, freestyle and backstroke, and also received a gold for the individual medley. She was also named overall winner.<\/li>\n<li>Unique Physique Gym sent two of its athletes, Audrey Jamneck and Charles Wagner, to attend the IFBB Central Gauteng Novice Show. Jamneck placed first in the men\u2019s over 40 years divison whilst Wagner competed in the senior men\u2019s u-80kg division and placed fifth.<\/li>\n<li>Tebbutts Mixed Martial Arts Academy member, Hannah Wedel, received her South African Protea colours at the South African Championships.<\/li>\n<li>Two wrestlers, Jacques Kriel (16) and Cassey Lombaard (12), from the Elsburg Wrestling Club flew to Egypt to compete in the Continental Championships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>June:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunnyridge Primary School\u2019s Jayde Symons (12) was part of the South African cricket team which flew off to Australia, in September.<\/li>\n<li>The Dinwiddie based Nippon Dojo Shotokan Karate Club members walked away with four medals, a trophy and a merit certificate at the Traditional Karate Tournament.<\/li>\n<li>Primrose\u2019s Justin Adendorff was among the 12 Gauteng rugby players selected to compete in Mauritius. Justin and his Western Wolves team mates competed in the Afrasia Bank International Seven\u2019s Tournament.<\/li>\n<li>Germiston Callies Harriers were well represented at the Comrades Marathon. The club had a total of 74 entrants in the marathon\u2019s 90th year, with 53 finishing the race.<\/li>\n<li>The Tebbutts Mixed Martial Arts Academy members took part in the Kickboxing Championship and scooped 52 medals.<\/li>\n<li>Persistence and dedication towards perfecting one\u2019s craft was rewarded at the fourth annual Ekurhuleni Sport Awards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>You might also be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107860\/a-good-year-for-tebbutts-academy\/\">A good year for Tebbutts Academy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107514\/first-class-boxing-action\/\">First class boxing action<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='4e811bc93d56457253bd618cadff4724'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick look at some of 2015\u2019s sporting thrills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":109033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1106,979,969,3364,8057,6247,6603,6040,6604,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-109075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-sport","tag-germiston-sports","tag-local-sport-news","tag-local-sport-stories","tag-local-sports-news","tag-local-sports-stories","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Germiston Sport","Germiston sports","local sport news","Local sport stories","Local Sports News","Local sports stories","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}