In another dazzling weekend of schoolboy rugby, Hilton College kicked a last-minute penalty to secure a tightly fought 29-28 victory over Glenwood High School in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands on Saturday.
Hilton College have lost only one game all season, slipping to Paarl Boys in April, and they continued their excellent run of form on Saturday as they recorded their seventh victory on the bounce against a determined Glenwood side.
“You’ve got to take your hats off to Glenwood, they played well. They kicked really well and put pressure on us; their number 10, kicking penalties from the halfway line just kept the scoreboard ticking over,” said Macleod-Henderson. “It’s quite an interesting story, he was our centre until under-16 and then he moved to scrumhalf. He’s certainly mastered his box-kicks in these two years,” said Macleod-Henderson about scrumhalf Roy.
Glenwood sustained pressure on Hilton’s tryline with their dominant scrum, abandoning their tactics of kicking to goal and rather choosing to scrum. The pressure eventually paid off as they swung the ball wide to their nippy right wing who finished excellently in the corner as Glenwood took the lead for the first time in the second half. Marx then put another long-range penalty over to make the score 25-18 for the visitors.
In a rarity in rugby, the conversion was excellently charged down by a determined Glenwood chasing team. As the pattern of the game continued, Marx converted another long-range penalty to give Glenwood a slender 26-28 lead with only a few minutes left on the clock.
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