DHL Western Province last week stamped their authority as one of the top teams in the 2014 SARU Girls Under-16 Interprovincial Series in Durban as they advanced through the competition unbeaten.
The tournament, which featured 16 teams participating in three rounds of matches last Monday, Wednesday and Friday respectively, was hosted at Glenwood High in Durban.
Eastern Province started their campaign with an encouraging 15-0 victory against the Blue Bulls and built on this form as the series progressed to secure a 29-0 victory against the Leopards and a 20-0 victory against SWD respectively. While their attack was impressive, their defence was particularly outstanding as they did not concede a single point during the tournament.
DHL Western Province – who have enjoyed success in all the boys youth weeks so far in 2014 – had an equally satisfying tournament as they cruised to a 29-5 victory against Border Country Districts in their opening match and supported this with a 31-5 win against SWD and a 26-19 victory against Border.
With the objective of the tournament being to grow women’s rugby and to develop players for senior provincial and national rugby, the tournament is similar to the Coca-Cola Youth Weeks as no official winner is named at the end of the competition.
Hosts Kwazulu-Natal, the Limpopo Blue Bulls, Boland and Border also delivered promising performances in the tournament as they each won two of their three matches, some of which were by convincing margins.
2014 SARU Girls Under-16 Interprovincial Series results:
Day One:
Border 27 Limpopo Blue Bulls 5
DHL Western Province 29 Border CD 5
Free State 7 Leopards 12
Eastern Province 15 Blue Bulls 0
Boland 10 Golden Lions 5
SWD 76 KwaZulu-Natal XV 0
Pumas 12 Griffons 7
KZN 12 Griquas 5
Day Two:
Eastern Province 29 Leopards 0
Blue Bulls 49 KZN XV 0
Boland 12 Pumas 10
Griffons 51 Free State 5
Border 45 KZN 0
Border CD 20 Golden Lions 7
DHL Western Province 31 SWD 5
Griquas 12 Limpopo Blue Bulls 14
Day Three:
Griffons 7 Border CD 7
KZN XV 5 Free State 12
Pumas 5 Leopards 22
Griquas 17 Blue Bulls 3
KZN 20 Boland 0
Limpopo Blue Bulls 31 Golden Lions 0
SWD 0 Eastern Province 20
DHL Western Province 26 Border 19
