Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival 2026 – Match Day 3 reports

DAY 3: FIRST GAME
HOERSKOOL TRANSVALIA 7-10 HOERSKOOL FRAMESBY

Grey skies, cool conditions and a pristine Stott Field pitch greeted Hoërskool Transvalia and Hoërskool Framesby on Easter Monday at the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival (KERF), thanks to work done deep into the night by the grounds crew after a major overnight storm.

Framesby, rejuvenated after a win over Glenwood High on Saturday, took it to Transvalia early, keeping the Vanderbijlpark side pinned deep inside their half for the first eight minutes of the clash.

After a bit of back and forth in the middle of the park, they eventually reaped a reward midway through the opening stanza. From a lineout, they were repelled through eight phases, but they were over at the first attempt from the next lineout, through flank Josh Potgieter.

Miles Feltham turned it into a seven-point play with a neat conversion from wide on the left.

Having fallen behind, Transvalia upped their game, forcing play down into Framesby’s 22. A 20-metre rolling maul got them close, but the ball was lost forward as the red-jerseyed side attempted to dot down.

They spurned another opportunity a minute from the break, outflanking Framesby wide on the right, but the final pass was spilt.

Right on cue at halftime, the Botha’s Hill mist rolled in, and light rain began to fall. Players on the opposite side of the field vanished in the soupy mix.

Picking up from where they had left off, Transvalia surged onto the attack. They were almost over from a lineout but were held up over the try line.

Five minutes in, they finally broke through when their burly centre Lorenzo Flynn forced his way over. Chester MacCammel slotted the conversion, and the sides were level at 7-7.

Framesby was almost over shortly after that, but a grubber over the try line was knocked on by 8th-man David Matyani in a furious race with a covering defender to the ball.

In the difficult conditions, points were hard to come by. Framesby, arguably, made the wrong call when they won a penalty and kicked to touch instead of taking a shot at goal from 36 metres out.

They went with the same option five minutes from time, but that, too, went to waste.

In the last minute, with the conditions clear once more, when Framesby won another penalty inside the 22, flyhalf Miles Feltham pointed towards the uprights.

With a win on the line, he nailed the kick, and the Gqeberha boys, thumped 83-0 by Westville Boys’ High on the opening day, finished KERF with back-to-back wins.

Scores
Transvalia 7 (0) Tries: Lorenzo Flynn. Conversion: Chester MacCammel
Framesby 10 (7) Tries: Josh Potgieter. Conversion: Miles Feltham. Penalty: Miles Feltham

DAY 3: SECOND GAME
GLENWOOD HIGH 14-12 HOERSKOOL DR EG JANSEN

The early morning mist had vanished when Glenwood High and Dr EG Jansen took to Stott Field in Monday’s second game at KERF. Slippery conditions made ball handling difficult, but the cool weather aided the players’ energy levels.

In only the second minute, Jansies were struck a hard blow when they lost their fullback Renaldo October for the game, after he made a dangerous tip tackle.

Glenwood fullback Rosco Williams, meanwhile, drew oohs and aahs by sidestepping a player in a telephone box, but unforced errors hampered the flow of the game in the early going.

The cleanest points’ scoring opportunity in the first quarter of the contest was engineered by the Green Machine’s flyhalf Jonah Chaita, who made a tidy break down the left flank, chipped over the fullback and won the race to the ball but knocked on as it sat up invitingly for him, with the try line beckoning 22 metres away.

Soon, though, Glenwood was over for the first points of the contest, with a gap opening up for no. 8 Makhaya Mbaile after he sold a dummy, and he was in for a try. Vincenzo Loutz converted to make it 7-0.

The Durban side’s attack sharpened as they settled into the contest, but they kept missing their final passes. In the last minute of the first half, though, a bruising break by hooker Tyler Leon and a sniping effort from scrumhalf Vincenzo Loutz created space, and 8th-man Makhaya Mbaile provided the finish again. Loutz popped over the conversion kick to give his side a 14-0 lead at the break.

Leon had the crowd on its feet with a thundering run from the second half kick-off, but EG Jansen struck first, driving Christopher van Rooyen over after four minutes.

Eight minutes in, behind controlled driving from his fellow forwards, EG Jansen tighthead prop Elshaan Duminy powered his way over, with AJ Oeschiger nailing the easy conversion kick. Only two points separated the sides.

Stung by those blows, Glenwood worked their way into the EG Jansen half where Vincenzo Loutz had a chance to put the Durban boys five points clear, but his kick at goal missed the mark.

Good cohesive work by Jansies’ pack took them back into the Green Machine’s territory as the combatants wrestled for control. Glenwood’s leaky defence from earlier in the half had, however, been repaired, and they held on for a tight 14-12 victory.

Scores:
Glenwood 14 – Tries: Makhaya Mbaile (2). Conversions: Vincenzo Loutz (2)
EG Jansen 12 – Tries: Christopher van Rooyen, Elshaan Duminy. Conversions: AJ Oeschiger

DAY 3: THIRD GAME
PETERHOUSE BOYS’ 17-26 HOERSKOOL RUSTENBURG

Hoërskool Rustenburg, after running the gauntlet of high-flying Kearsney College and Durban High School (DHS) in their first two matches of KERF, took on Peterhouse on Monday in Botha’s Hill.

They found there was no let-up. Their Zimbabwean opposition began with impressive tempo, resisting Rusties’ early territorial advantage before powering their way into the opposition’s half.

Bongani Dube, then, gave the boys in white the lead in the fifth minute. His excellent hands wrong-footed the opposition, who thought a pass had missed the hooker. He snatched it out of the air, spun around and found open ground in front of him …