South African Sports News – 4 November

Bulls tame Cheetahs to take Currie Cup
It was all smiles for the Loftus Versfeld faith­ful in Pretoria on Saturday night when their darlings, the mighty Blue Bulls, defeated a stub­born Cheetahs out­fit 36–24 to become 2009 Absa Currie Cup Premier Division cham­pi­ons. The Bulls stormed to a 24–0 lead after just 25 minutes cour­tesy of a try from right wing Francois Hougaard (pic­tured with ball in hand) and a brace from left wing Bryan Habana, but the Cheetahs, as always, staged a spir­ited fight back to close the gap to just six points after 48 minutes.

Tries by Frans Viljoen, Corné Uys and Nico Breedt got the Free Staters back into the match as the Bulls were forced to make a large num­ber of tackles against a team that were run­ning the ball with con­fid­ence. However, ill dis­cip­line by the vis­it­ors let them down at cru­cial times and this, com­bined with the superi­or­ity of fly­half Morné Steyn over his oppos­ite num­ber Jacques-Louis Potgieter, proved to be the dif­fer­ence between the sides.

Steyn slot­ted eight of his nine kicks at goal to record a per­sonal tally of 21 points via three con­ver­sions, a drop goal and four pen­al­ties while Potgieter could only con­trib­ute nine points via three con­ver­sions and a drop goal. With 30 minutes left on the clock it looked like the determ­ined Free Staters might pull off a huge upset against their more illus­tri­ous rivals, but the con­ces­sion of two pen­al­ties squashed their chances of vic­tory — the first when Potgieter was forced to hold the ball on the ground at a 22m kick-off and the second when Richardt Strauss lost his cool and interfered with Deon Stegmann, man-handling the Bulls flanker even though he was already in touch.

Steyn added the extra points and sud­denly, with the final 10 minutes approach­ing, the home side were back into a 12-point lead and the Cheetahs were facing the vir­tu­ally impossible task of hav­ing to score two tries against one of the best defens­ive sides in world rugby.

Any chance of that hap­pen­ing was dealt a death blow by ref­eree Jonathan Kaplan who yel­low carded the impetu­ous Strauss after the burly Free Stater objec­ted to the match offi­cials not allow­ing a short throw to the front of the lin­eout. And that as they say was that as the Bulls closed out the match to claim their fifth Currie Cup title in the first dec­ade of the 21^st cen­tury. The men in blue also had the hon­our of becom­ing the first side ever to win both the Super 14 and the Currie Cup in the same year.

Scorers
Bulls 36 – Tries: Francois Hougaard, Bryan Habana (2). Conversions: Morné Steyn (3). Penalties: Steyn (4). Dropped goal: Steyn.
Cheetahs 24 – Tries: Frans Viljoen, Corne Uys, Nico Breedt. Conversions: Jacques-Louis Potgieter (3). Dropped goal: Potgieter.

Pumas go through while Eagles lose out
While the chief focus in local rugby action this week­end was the Absa Currie Cup Premier Division final, there were still other mat­ters to be decided on the domestic front – namely who was going to remain in the Premier Division next year and who was not.

Those mat­ters were resolved on Friday even­ing when the Pumas eas­ily defeated the Boland Cavaliers 40–3 (aggreg­ate 75–39) in Witbank while the Leopards went down 18–17 to the SWD Eagles in George in their respect­ive Promotion/Relegation matches.

The Pumas were utterly ruth­less against their Premier Division oppos­i­tion, run­ning in six tries without reply as they com­pletely dom­in­ated all facets of the game. The Cavaliers’ defeat means that they will com­pete with the likes of the Eagles, Might Elephants, Griffons, Bulldogs and Valke in the less glam­or­ous First Division next season.

Despite their loss to the Eagles, the Leopards will remain in the top-flight com­pet­i­tion next sea­son after man­aging to secure a bonus point in the match. The Leopards won the first Promotion/Regulation fix­ture 47–42 in Potchefstroom the pre­vi­ous Friday.

Scorers
Pumas vs Cavaliers: Pumas 40 – Tries: Jaco Bouwer, Marius Coetzer, Pieter Meyer, MJ Mentz, Shaun Venter, Tiaan Marx. Conversions: Braam Pretorius (5). Cavaliers 3 – Penalty: Justin Peach.
SWD vs Leopards: SWD 18 – Tries: Bevin Fortuin, Norman Nelson. Conversion: Ricardo Croy. Penalty: Croy. Drop Goal: Croy. Leopards 17 – Tries: Basil de Doncker, Deon van Rensburg. Conversions: Cecil Dumond (pic­tured in green jer­sey), Clayton Durand. Penalty: Durand.

United too clever for Students
SuperSport United defeated Bidvest Wits 2–1 in an Absa Premiership match played at Bidvest Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday and in so doing main­tained their top spot on the stand­ings. Goals from Brian Umony and Glen Salmon were enough to give United the vic­tory as the Students could only muster a loan score from Mark Haskins in reply.

However, Wits did have their chances in this game but couldn’t con­vert them into goals. Rene Richards could have opened the scor­ing for the Students in the 11^th minute but was denied by some top-notch work from Emille Baron (pic­tured) in United’s goal when the ‘keeper par­ried his well-taken free kick for a corner.

After 15 minutes had elapsed, United were start­ing to come back into the game and it was Umony who put them on the board with a well-taken strike.  Going a goal behind so early in the match seemed to gal­van­ise Wits into action and they quickly respon­ded with some attack­ing moves only to be let down by poor finishing.

However, with just a minute gone in the second half, Haskins headed home a Sifiso Myeni cross to level mat­ters for Wits. He was then denied a second goal two minutes later when he con­nec­ted well with another cross from Myeni only to see his shot whistle over the cross­bar. Sniping runs by the fleet-footed Myeni on the right flank kept United’s defend­ers very busy, but his team-mates failed to make con­tact with his well-placed crosses let­ting SuperSport off the hook once again.

The Students suffered a sig­ni­fic­ant blow after 70 minutes when their cap­tain, Tefu Mashamaite, was sent off for dis­sent and United wasted little time in cap­it­al­ising on their numer­ical advant­age. Dane Klate unleashed a power­ful 78^th minute strike which, although blocked by Wits ‘keeper Darren Keet, reboun­ded into the path of Salmon who was on hand to score the vis­it­ors’ second goal.

United were now 2–1 up with 12 minutes left to play and that’s the way things stayed giv­ing SuperSport an excel­lent win. United are now three points clear of nearest rivals Santos who com­fort­ably des­patched lowly AmaZulu 2–0 at the Ulundi Stadium on Sunday.

Full res­ults
Last Wednesday
Mamelodi Sundowns     0         Platinum Stars     2
Maritzburg Utd         1        Black Aces         0
Moroka Swallows         0        Ajax Cape Town     2
Kaizer Chiefs         2        Golden Arrows     0
Bloem Celtic         3        Jomo Cosmos     3
Orlando Pirates         1         AmaZulu         2
Bidvest Wits         1         Free State Stars     1
Over the week­end
Moroka Swallows         1        Platinum Stars         0
Kaizer Chiefs         0        Orlando Pirates         0
SuperSport United     2        Bidvest Wits         1
Maritzburg Utd         1        Free State Stars         1
Ajax Cape Town         0        Golden Arrows         0
Jomo Cosmos         1        Mamelodi Sundowns     3
AmaZulu             0        Santos             2
Bloem Celtic         2        Black Aces 0

Another very busy week lies ahead for all the PSL teams with 16 fix­tures tak­ing place over the next couple of days. The pick of today’s games is likely to be the clash between second placed Santos and sev­enth placed Wits at the Coetzenberg Stadium at 7.30pm with the encounter between Orlando Pirates and Bloem Celtic at the Orlando Stadium on Sunday, prom­ising to be the match to watch as far as week­end action is concerned.

Fixtures
Today
Free State Stars         vs     AmaZulu
Golden Arrows         vs    Bloem Celtic
Jomo Cosmos         vs    Ajax Cape Town
Santos             vs    Bidvest Wits
Black Aces            vs    Kaizer Chiefs
Moroka Swallows        vs    Mamelodi Sundowns
SuperSport United    vs    Platinum Stars
Orlando Pirates         vs    Maritzburg Utd
Saturday
Golden Arrows        vs    Mamelodi Sundowns
Platinum Stars        vs    Bidvest Wits
SuperSport United    vs    AmaZulu
Santos            vs    Maritzburg Utd
Jomo Cosmos         vs    Moroka Swallows
Free State Stars        vs    Kaizer Chiefs
Sunday
Orlando Pirates        vs    Bloem Celtic
Black Aces            vs    Ajax Cape Town

Tsotsobe and Boje defang Cobras
Some top qual­ity bowl­ing from Lonwabo Tsotsobe (pic­tured) and Nicky Boje helped the Chevrolet Warriors defeat the Nashua Cape Cobras by 59 runs in their MTN40 match at Buffalo Park in East London on Sunday.

The Warriors bat­ted first and scored 214 all out while the Cobras could only muster 155 all out in reply. Man of the match Tsotsobe returned fig­ures of 3/36 and was well sup­por­ted by left-arm spin­ner Boje who claimed 2/36. The Cobras were on course for vic­tory at 118/5 after 25.1 overs but when Herschelle Gibbs was dis­missed for 60 runs off 54 balls, their chal­lenge came to an end. Gibbs, who recor­ded ten fours and a six dur­ing his innings, was bat­ting superbly until he sliced an attemp­ted drive off Boje and was caught by Justin Kreusch at a wide long off.

The Cape fran­chise had got off to a shock­ing start as they crumbled to 51/5 after 13.2 overs. Left-arm swing bowler Tsotsobe was the des­troyer in chief as his first spell, with the new ball, pro­duced fig­ures of 3/16 off six overs. Gibbs and Justin Kemp then restored some respect­ab­il­ity to the Cobras’ innings with a sixth-wicket stand of 67 runs, but when Gibbs lost his wicket the Cobras lost their way once again. The remain­ing four wick­ets yiel­ded just 37 runs with Kemp the last man out for a run of the mill 29 off 63 deliveries.

The Warriors’ innings was built on the efforts of Colin Ingram (53 runs off 53 balls), Arno Jacobs (42 off 57) and Johan Botha (42 off 52) as the hosts were dis­missed with five balls of their innings remain­ing. Speedsters Monde Zondeki, with 3/37, and Francois Plaatjies, with 2/26, caused the most prob­lems for the home batsmen.

The Warriors’ next MTN40 out­ing is against the bizhub Highveld Lions at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth on December 26, while the Cobras will face the Dolphins at Newlands in Cape Town on Friday. The Warriors are cur­rently in first pos­i­tion in the cham­pi­on­ship stand­ings with nine points, while the Cobras find them­selves in third place on six points.

Although the cham­pi­on­ship has hardly got under way, the Warriors will stand an excel­lent chance of lift­ing the trophy this sea­son if they can main­tain their recent good form, while the Cobras remain a class act and can never be discounted.

Steyn sends Eagles pack­ing
Paceman Dale Steyn (pic­tured) grabbed four wick­ets to lead the Nashua Titans to a 14-run vic­tory over the Diamond Eagles in their MTN40 match at SuperSport Park on Sunday. Steyn recor­ded fig­ures of 4/36 in eight overs to restrict the Eagles to 240/7, twice claim­ing a cru­cial wicket in the open­ing over of a return spell. The Titans had earlier notched up 254/8 in their allot­ted 40 overs.

The Eagles were well on course for vic­tory on 130/1, but Steyn, who had earlier dis­pensed with Morne van Wyk for 12, put a span­ner in the works when he removed opener Reeza Hendricks for a well-played 73 off 72 balls, which included 12 bound­ar­ies. Next man in Dean Elgar didn’t last long when he edged a nasty lifter from Steyn to a wide slip and the Eagles had sud­denly slipped to 136/3.

The rot con­tin­ued as Boeta Dippenaar (five), Johan van der Wath (12) and Alan Kruger (11) all fell try­ing over ambi­tious strokes, while Rilee Rossouw (52 off 70), hav­ing laid the found­a­tion to bat through the innings, then hit Steyn straight to long-off to give Faf du Plessis the third of his set of four catches, a record for the Titans in limited-overs cricket.

Ryan McLaren bat­ted well to fin­ish with an unbeaten 39 off 33 balls, but in the end it was not enough to get the Eagles home as they fin­ished just short of their tar­get. Spin bowl­ers Roelof van der Merwe (2/47) and Paul Harris (1/31) snared the other wick­ets to fall in a well co-ordinated effort by the Titans’ bowlers.

The Titans’ innings was built around the efforts of Jacques Rudolph (76 off 83) and AB de Villiers (65 off 67) with sup­port from Du Plessis (34 off 20) and Albie Morkel (22 off 17). The Eagles’ bowl­ing was dom­in­ated by their speed­sters, with McLaren stand­ing out with 2/32 in eight overs.

The Eagles’ next out­ing in the com­pet­i­tion is against the Nashua Dolphins on Sunday at Kingsmead in Durban, while the Titans face the bizhub Highveld Lions on Friday. The Eagles are cur­rently in fourth place in the stand­ings with five points while the Titans are in second pos­i­tion with six points.

Other res­ults
Friday
Chevrolet Warriors beat Nashua Dolphins by 13 runs
Diamond Eagles beat bizhub Highveld Lions by 104 runs
Nashua Titans vs Nashua Cape Cobras (Match washed out)
Last Wednesday
Nashua Cape Cobras beat bizhub Highveld Lions by seven wickets

Plenty of action in Kempton Park KO feast
Mlungisi ‘The Killer Shark’ Dlamini (21–0-1, 13 KO’s) became a duel world box­ing cham­pion at Emperor’s Palace in Kempton Park on Saturday night when he sen­sa­tion­ally knocked out former International Boxing Organisation (IBO) junior light­weight cham­pion Zolani ‘Untouchable’ Marali (20–4, 13 KO’s) to cap­ture the vacant IBO light­weight title.

The 27-year-old Dlamini, who hails from Esakawini in KwaZulu-Natal, looked strangely leth­ar­gic as he fol­lowed his 32-year-old foe around the ring rather than jab his way in to land effect­ive body punches as he nor­mally does. The KwaZulu-Natalian clearly lost the open­ing three rounds and was los­ing the fourth when he all of a sud­den unleashed a hellish right cross which exploded off Marali’s jaw to send the vet­eran crash­ing head first to the canvas.

Marali, to his credit, tried to rise from the knock­down, but his legs weren’t up to the job and he sank back to the can­vass. Scottish ref­eree Victor Loughlin reached the count of ten at 2 min, 59 secs of the round and Dlamini found him­self the proud owner of an IBO belt to go with his World Boxing Foundation (WBF) light­weight strap.

The win has poten­tially put Dlamini in line for some big money fights against the hold­ers of some of the more recog­nised world titles. However, for Marali, the loss has pos­sibly spelt the end of his career as a top-level fighter, as he has now lost three of his last four fights, two of them by knockout.

On the under­card, Thomas ‘Tommy Gun’ Oosthuizen (10–0, 8 KO’s) unleashed a smash­ing left cross in the fourth round of his sched­uled 12 round con­test with Tshepang Mohale (7–3, 6 KO’s) to record a knock­out vic­tory over the reign­ing South African super-middleweight champion.

However, the 6’2’ Oosthuizen didn’t have it all his own way against the equally tall Mohale, who landed some heavy jabs and pun­ish­ing right crosses, which reddened his the face of his oppon­ent. Indeed, Mohale actu­ally exposed Oosthuizen’s some­what leaky defence as he con­nec­ted with hurt­ful punches through­out the open­ing three rounds. However, it was Oosthuizen, fight­ing from his tricky south­paw stance, who had the last laugh.

After a furi­ous exchange of blows in the open­ing seconds of the fourth round, Mohale pulled away from his foe but for­got to keep his hands up allow­ing Oosthuizen to land a pul­ver­ising left cross on his unguarded chin. The 30-year-old Mohale crashed to the can­vas as if he’d been shot and, although he made a determ­ined effort to rise, it was ulti­mately to no avail as the ref­eree coun­ted him out at 0:48 of the round.

The vic­tory earned Oosthuizen the World Boxing Association (WBA) Pan African super mid­dle­weight title to go with his IBO Youth super-middleweight and light-heavyweight titles. The lanky 22-year-old from Gauteng is now undoubtedly one of South Africa’s best young pro­spects and it will surely not be long before he brings home a legit­im­ate world title belt to these sunny shores.

For Mohale, who incid­ent­ally remains the South African super-middleweight cham­pion as his title was not at stake in this fight, the future also looks pretty prom­ising. Although he lost by knock­out, he was by no means dis­graced as he landed some hurt­ful punches on Oosthuizen and kept him guess­ing at all times. It was pos­sibly the south­paw prospect’s toughest pro­fes­sional out­ing to date and Mohale can take com­fort in the know­ledge that he was hold­ing his own until a split second lapse in con­cen­tra­tion gave Oosthuizen the oppor­tun­ity to end matters.

The World Boxing Council (WBC) International light-heavyweight title fight between chal­lenger Isaac Chilemba (14–1, 8 KO’s) and cham­pion Doudou Ngumbu (20–1, 9 KO’s) resembled more of a chess match than a box­ing match as both fight­ers probed for open­ings and found very few dur­ing the course of the 12 round bout.

Chilemba, a Malawian who is based in South Africa and trained by Colin Nathan, def­in­itely deserved the decision against Ngumbu, who is based in France but hails from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He landed the more effect­ive blows against his shorter oppon­ent and used his super­ior strength and size to back Ngumbu up on the ropes.

However, it was not all plain sail­ing for Chilemba who occa­sion­ally got tagged by some hard right crosses from Ngumbu and seemed a little con­fused at times by his awk­ward and slip­pery oppon­ent. In the end though Chilemba’s higher work rate paid dividends, as the judges awar­ded him the decision by scores of 117–112, 115–113 and 118–113. Besides win­ning the WBC International belt, Chilemba also cap­tured the less pres­ti­gi­ous African Boxing Union (ABU) light heavy­weight strap and can now look for­ward to big­ger and bet­ter things on the inter­na­tional scene.

Gauteng based fighter Hekkie Budler (13–0, 5 KO’s) went into his fight with Motswaki Moselesele (5–2, 2 KO’s) hav­ing only scored four stop­pages in 12 fights, but that didn’t stop him from mak­ing short work of Moselesele, whom he des­patched in the open­ing round to retain his IBO All-Africa junior fly­weight title.

Two power­ful right crosses had the Free Stater on the can­vas halfway through the open­ing round and when Budler landed a hard left hook a few seconds later, ref­eree Lulama Mtya decided he had seen enough and waved pro­ceed­ings off at 2:23 of the round. Although Budler’s vic­tory looked impress­ive, it must be said that Moselesele did not have much to offer and the time has now surely come for ‘The Hexecutioner’ to face sterner com­pet­i­tion if he hopes to make an impact on the world scene.

In the open­ing bout of the Golden Gloves pro­moted tour­na­ment, 20-year-old Flo Simba made short work of an inept Bernard Vance in a sched­uled four round cruis­er­weight con­test. Vance, who entered the ring with a black eye and prob­ably left with even an big­ger one, was quickly over­whelmed by the power­fully built Simba, prompt­ing ref­eree Alfred Buqwane to wisely call a halt to pro­ceed­ings at 2:26 of the open­ing round. Both fight­ers were mak­ing their pro­fes­sional debuts.

At the Wembley Arena in Johannesburg the pre­vi­ous night, former International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior light­weight cham­pion Cassius Baloyi (pic­tured) com­pre­hens­ively out poin­ted Argentinian Roberto Arrieta (34–15-4, 16 KO’s) over 12 rounds in their IBF junior light­weight title eliminator.

All three judges scored the fight 120–107 in the South African’s favour. The 35-year-old Baloyi (37–4-1, 19 KO’s) is now in line to take on the win­ner of a fight between another South African, Mzonke Fana, and the cham­pion, Robert Guerrero of the United States. Baloyi lost the IBF belt when fel­low South African Malcolm Klassen stopped him in the sev­enth round of a bout that took place in April. Klassen then sur­ren­ded the belt to Guerrero who out poin­ted him over 12 rounds in August. The 33-year-old Arrieta lost on points to Fana in 2006.

Other res­ults on the Branco Sports Productions bill
Michael Schultz TKO 3 Samuel Mathebula (super mid­dle­weights)
Bongani Mlotshwa TKO 1 Selo Sebothoma (junior mid­dle­weights)
Zola Thunyawa TKO 4 Emmanuel Ndou (light­weights)
Jason Kinnear TKO 4 Albert Mudau (ban­tam­weights)
Michael van Heerden KO 7 Theophilus Mpakane  (junior middleweights)

Meanwhile, it has been announced that the res­ult of the WBF heavy­weight title bout between South African Francois Botha and Cuban Pedro Carrion has been changed to a major­ity draw. Botha was declared the win­ner by major­ity decision after the fight in Dessau, Germany, last Saturday night.

However, WBF offi­cials later veri­fied the score­cards and dis­covered that the res­ult was actu­ally a draw. Judges Matteo Fratini and Tonio Tiberi handed in scores of 114–114 and 115–115 and Jean-Marcel Nartz had Botha ahead by 115–114. The South African still retains his title but may be required to give Carrion a rematch.

Ramaala fin­ishes sixth in New York
South Africa mara­thon run­ner Hendrick Ramaala (pic­tured) recor­ded a respect­able time of two hours, 12 mins and 31 secs to fin­ish sixth in Sunday’s New York City Marathon. The 37-year-old Ramaala ran well, but didn’t have enough left in the tank to close the gap on the top runners.

Meb Keflezighi became the first American to win the event since 1982 when he took the men’s title in 2:09:15. thiopia’s former world and Olympic 10 000m cham­pion Derartu Tulu won the women’s race in 2:28.52 after run­ning away from Russia’s Ludmila Petrova in the last quarter of a mile.

Keflezighi broke away from Kenyan Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot with just a few miles to go to take the win. Cheruiyot fin­ished 41 seconds behind the American, while former world cham­pion Jaouad Gharib of Morocco was third in 2:10:25. Keflezighi is one of 11 chil­dren who moved as a boy from Eritrea to Italy where he went to high school before relo­cat­ing to San Diego to pur­sue his ter­tiary education.

Meanwhile, local run­ners Tshidiso Bosiu and Rene Kalmer ran away with the hon­ours at the 2009 Nedbank Soweto Marathon on Sunday. Kalmer won the women’s event in a quick 2:44:06 while Bosiu clocked 2:18:10 to take vic­tory in the men’s cat­egory. Kalmer’s time also beat the race record of 2:45:37, which was set in 2001. Poppy Mlambo fin­ished second while four-time win­ner Mamoroallo Tjoka was third in 2:53:13.

The 27-year-old Bosiu took the lead just after the half way mark and was closely fol­lowed by two-time win­ner Mabuthile Lebopo with Tsotang Maine third in 2:19:49. A record entry of 4 923 run­ners com­pleted the event with another 6 300 par­ti­cipants com­pet­ing in the 10km walk and run events.

Fichardt pips Moore at the post
Darren Fichardt (pic­tured) pro­duced some solid all round golf to win the Platinum Classic tour­na­ment at the 6 250m par 72 Mooinooi Golf Club course on Saturday. Fichardt bird­ied the 18^th hole and shot a final round 66 for a 15-under 201 to defeat Titch Moore by one shot.

Moore was three strokes ahead going into the 16^th, but was too strong with his nine-iron from 147 yards out and over­shot the green. He took a fur­ther two shots to get onto the green and two putted from there, which allowed Fichardt to draw level after the lat­ter bird­ied the 17^th.

Fichardt then struck a superb approach to the 18^th, land­ing just off the green, and sank his putt to make life dif­fi­cult for Moore unless the lat­ter was able to birdie the 17^th. He wasn’t, and con­sequently needed to sink a 25-footer for a birdie on the 18^th to force a play­off.  Again, he wasn’t suc­cess­ful, giv­ing Fichardt his third title on the 2009 Sunshine Tour. Defending cham­pion Thomas Aiken fin­ished on 11-under for a share of 10^th position.

Top 14 fin­ish­ers (South African unless spe­cified)
201 — Darren Fichardt 70 65 66
202 — Titch Moore 65 68 69
203 — Grant Muller 66 70 67
Alan McLean (SCO) 65 66 72
204 — Steve Basson 71 67 66
Adilson da Silva (BRA) 67 70 67
Ryan Cairns (ZIM) 67 70 67
Teboho Sefatsa 68 67 69
Branden Grace 66 67 71
205 — Trevor Fisher Jnr 67 70 68
Warren Abery 65 72 68
Jbe’ Kruger 63 73 69
Thomas Aiken 67 69 69
Doug McGuigan 66 69 70

Photo Credits:
Bulls tame Cheetahs to take Currie Cup — Photo – Francois Hougaard: Source – www.daylife.com
Pumas go through while Eagles lose out — Photo – Cecil Dumond: Source – www.daylife.com
United too clever for Students — Photo – Emille Baron: Source – www.vg.no
Tsotsobe and Boje defang Cobras — Photo – Lonwabo Tsotsobe: Source – www.commons.wikimedia.org
Steyn sends Eagles pack­ing — Photo – Dale Steyn: Source – www.seshdotcom.wordpress.com
Plenty of action in Kempton Park KO feast — Photo – Cassius Baloyi: Source – www.boxnews.com.ua
Ramaala fin­ishes sixth in New York — Photo – Hendrick Ramaala: Source – www.africanathletics.org
Fichardt pips Moore at the post — Photo – Darren Fichardt: Source – www.dailymail.co.uk

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