{"id":90419,"date":"2019-02-26T09:31:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T07:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=90419"},"modified":"2019-02-27T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:45:44","slug":"cambridge-beat-hoerskool-bergvlam-win-coca-cola-t20-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/sports-news\/local-sports\/2019\/02\/26\/cambridge-beat-hoerskool-bergvlam-win-coca-cola-t20-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge beat Ho\u00ebrskool Bergvlam to win Coca-Cola\u00ae T20 Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

To represent the Titans, Cambridge Academy still have to play against the winners of the Northerns, Limpopo and Easterns provincial finals in a franchise final on the 2nd and 3rd of March at Willowmore Park.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s provincial finals were played over two days with eight teams playing in quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals. The schools were Cambridge Academy, Lydenburg Hoerskool, Hoerskool Secunda, Ho\u00ebrskool Bergvlam, Embalenhle Hub, Ho\u00ebrskool Generaal Hertzog and Ho\u00ebr Tegniese Skool Middelburg (HTS Middleburg).<\/p>\n

Cambridge Academy beat Ho\u00ebrskool Generaal Hertzog by 8 wickets in the quarter-final, Ho\u00ebrskool Lydenburg by 9 wickets in the semi-final, and Ho\u00ebrskool Bergvlam by 16 runs in the final.<\/p>\n

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Zuan Swarts was the top run scorer for Cambridge Academy in the provincial finals scoring 85 runs and only going out once in the whole tournament. He also contributed with the ball taking 5 wickets in the tournament including 3 wickets for 5 runs against Ho\u00ebrskool Generaal Hertzog.<\/p>\n

Nathan du Toit took 7 wickets with his best figures being 4 wickets for 6 runs against Ho\u00ebrskool Lydenburg and Dumi Dumisani contributed with 3 wickets for hardly any runs including 2 wickets for 9 runs in 4 overs against Ho\u00ebrskool Generaal Hertzog.<\/p>\n

The winner of the Franchise Finals will join the other five franchises winners and the two schools that qualified though the CSA Focus School programme at the competition\u2019s National Finals at the University of Pretoria from the 15th to 17th March 2019. The Coca-Cola T20 School Challenge winner stands to walk away with R110 000.00 for their school.<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022Quarter-Final:<\/strong>
\nHertzog 55 all out (Zuan Swarts 3\/5, Dumi Dumisani 2\/9) vs Cambridge Academy 56\/2 (Zuan Swarts 28*)
\nCambridge won by 8 wickets<\/p>\n

Ho\u00ebrskool Lydenburg 119\/8 (Reece Heydenrych 22, Weandre Williamse 22, Sibusiso Nkosi 3\/12) v Embalenhle Hub 52 all out (Brandon Bothma 3\/13)
\nLydenburg won by 67 runs<\/p>\n

Ho\u00ebrskool Secunda 94\/6 (Johan van Antwerpen 33, Sufian Patel 3\/13) vs Ho\u00ebrskool Bergvlam 98\/9 (Regardt du Preez 32, Lerato Mokoena 2\/3)
\nBergvalm won by 1 wicket<\/p>\n

Ligbron Akademie vs HTS Middleburg
\nLigbron won<\/p>\n

\u2022Semi-Final:<\/strong>
\nHo\u00ebrskool Lydenburg 110\/7 (Nathan du Toit 4\/6) vs Cambridge Academy 111\/1 (Zuan Swarts 40*)
\nCambridge Academy won by 9 wickets<\/p>\n

Ligbron Akademie 91 all out (Gomo Moletsi 3\/8, Tabang Mawela 2\/8) vs Ho\u00ebrskool Bergvlam
\nBergvlam won<\/p>\n

\u2022Final:<\/strong>
\nCambridge Academy 112\/7 (Stef Leemanss 29, Adnan Laria 2\/17) vs Ho\u00ebrskool Bergvlam 96\/3 (Uwaiz Patel 42*)<\/p>\n

Cambridge won by 16 runs.<\/p>\n

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Cambridge Academy won the Mpumalanga Coca-Cola\u00ae T20 Schools Challenge Provincial Finals and now stand the chance of representing the Titans at the Coca-Cola Schools T20 Challenge National Finals that will be played between the 15th and 17th March 2019 in Pretoria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":90420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Press Release","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2886],"tags":[16697,16695,16398,15812,16694,16693,12898,12964,16696,16692],"class_list":["post-90419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-cambridge-wins-mpumalanga-coca-cola-t20-finals","tag-coca-cola-t20-final","tag-fishingmiddelburg-sport","tag-hts-middelburg-scholar-killed-in-bus-tragedy","tag-local-cricket","tag-middelburg-cricket","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-sport","tag-school-cricket","tag-truster-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Cambridge wins Mpumalanga Coca Cola T20 finals","Coca Cola T20 Final","fishing'middelburg sport","HTS Middelburg scholar killed in bus tragedy","local cricket","middelburg cricket","middelburg news","Middelburg sport","school cricket","truster news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}