Van Briesies high school player of the season

GARDEN ROUTE CRICKET NEWS - Outeniqua High School in George confirmed their dominance at school's cricket in the province when they won the u.19 and u.15 Super League titles.

They won the u.15 title for the second consecutive year. Langenhoven Gymnasium from Oudtshoorn won the u.19 Coca-Cola Twenty 20 title but they failed to qualify for the national competition.

In the u.19 Super League, Van Briesies from Langenhoven Gymnasium, was again the outstanding batsman and scored a total of 323 runs with the highest score of 143.

His teammate and also from Langenhoven Gymnasium, Eaj Carew, claimed the accolade as bowler of the season when he took 21 wickets with the best figures of 5/9. Van Briesies was the SWD high schools player of the season, Zander Nel (Outeniqua Primary) who excelled with outstanding versatile performances at the CSA u.13 National Week, the primary school cricketer of the year and Annerie Dercksen (Sentraal High School) who was selected for the SA Girl's u.19 was the girls school cricketer of the season after she received the same award since 2015.

Eighty-eight (88) primary schools and 51 high schools actively participate in the province's most popular summer sport code.

Annerie Dercksen was named as the girls cricketer of the season. Photo's supplied

At the national cricket tournaments of CSA the SWD representative schools teams produced satisfactory performances thanks to an inspiring performance by the u.17 provincial team.

A good individual performance by Van Briesies in the Coca-Cola T20 franchise qualifiers was rewarded with inclusion in the Coca-Cola All Stars team. It was, however, the SWD u.16 Regional Performance team that excelled when they recorded three out of four victories at the Standard Bank u.16 CSA National Cricket Week that took place in Potchefstroom during April 2018. The only defeat was against Western Province (in the final). Geon Burns (as captain) and Chumani Mangqwengqwe were selected for SA u.16 RPC team.

Zander Nel was named as the primary schools cricketer of the season.