KERF Match report: Kearsney vs Grey College

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KEARSNEY COLLEGE – GREY COLLEGE

Kearsney must have been apprehensive ahead of this match against Grey College – the third match of the morning of the second day at the festival – after their drubbing by Selborne on Thursday. However, in an entertaining contest they held them until the last quarter when Grey scored two good tries to win 28-10.

The home side raised their game and put early pressure camping on the Grey try-line but they couldn’t get through. Characteristically, Grey will make opposition pay for mistakes made and so they did when Kearsney dropped the ball on attack and then had to defend as Grey attacked their line. Their defence held, stopping numerous attempts by Grey to score.

After 16 minutes centre PR Serfontein sniped through for the first points of the match. Mario Vieira converted for Grey to lead 7-0. Kearsney tackled out of their skins to prevent any further points by Grey. On the stroke of half-time it was a little chip through by full-back Cullen Waberski that led to wing Sebastian Pau scoring and Waberski levelled the score with his conversion.

It took Grey another 30 minutes before they scored again as Serfontein made the break and off-loaded to Gerrie Koegelenberg who rounded the defence to dot down. Vieira was successful with the conversion for the Bloemfontein side to lead 14-7. Waberski then added a penalty for Kearsney to narrow the gap to 10-14.

The tackle toll started affecting the Kearsney lads and Grey capitalised with first lock Marius Kruger scoring from a maul and then Koegelenberg going over for his second try when Grey stretched the defence across the field. Vieira converted both for a 28-10 win.

It was an exciting, fast-moving game that was played in front of capacity crowds.

Points scorers:
Kearsney: S Pau 5 (1 try); C Waberski 5 (1 conversion, 1 penalty)
Grey: PR Serfontein 5 (1 try); M Kruger 5 (1 try); G Koegelenberg 10 (2 tries); M Vieira 8 (4 conversions)