Rondebosch Boys’ High School’s winning form continues in tightly fought battle with Bishops Diocesan College.
beat rivals Bishops Diocesan College 20-15, after trailing 15-0 at halftime.The windy weather played a big role in the result and the way the game was played at Bishops.
This led to two tries finished excellently by Bishops’ right wing, Jack Ryan, as flyhalf Shaywan Blankenberg converted one and missed the other to take an early 12-0 lead. “It’s just 35 minutes that you can’t get back, so I told them to leave that in the past and look at the next 35 minutes. I told them, first score after half-time with the massive wind behind you. 15 points, I thought wasn’t good enough, they obviously proved that right for me,” said Rondebosch head coach Joel Carew about what he said to his team at half-time.
With the wind and momentum on their side, Rondebosch snapped up their second try through Birhange who showed incredible strength close to the try line. Jooste slotted a relatively easy conversion to make the match 15-12. “Some stuff didn’t go to plan, I thought Bishops did well to stop the maul. But I told them to get nice and direct, I think in the first half we were trying to play a bit too much rugby and move the ball around too much. A massive performance from all of the forwards, especially Jono Birhange,” said Carew.