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BY REGINALD KANYANE
Vryburg – The North West Education and Sport Development department hosted a two days Provincial School League games on Friday and Saturday, 04 – 05 September 2015 at Gert Lubbe Stadium Sports Ground in Vryburg, Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District.

The cold and rainy weather could not discourage the different teams of learners to compete for the number one spot in their respective different sporting codes. All the teams played on point system whereby the winning team in the group qualified to represent the province in the National championships at the end of the year in December.

The third leg for the Provincial School League games targeted the Under 13 and Under 17 boys and girls in the following sporting codes football, netball, basketball and volleyball.

The second leg took place late July 2015 and consisted of Indigenous games while the first leg consisted of the Special Schools and took place in June 2015.

Schools that will represent the Under 13 at the National Championships in Basketball Itirele Primary Schools from Matlosana (Dr Kenneth Kaunda District) for both girls and boys, in Softball General Hendrik Schoeman Primary School will represent for both boys and girls, in Volleyball A re Itshokeng Primary School will represent the boys and girls at national championships, in Football the boys from Kgetleng Primary School were on top of their group and girls from Kgetleng Primary School won in their group.

In the Under 17 category, the boys from Itshupeng Secondary School from Schweizer Reneke (Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati) won the group, while the girls from Mogawane Secondary School from Bojanala won the group.

In Volleyball the boys from Eletsa Secondary School in Letlhabile (Bojanala District) won the group and the girls of Tsamma Secondary School in Jouberton (Dr Kenneth Kaunda District). In the Basketball, the boys and girls from Keledi Secondary School won their both groups meaning that they will both represent the province at national.

MEC Maphefo Matsemela congratulated the schools who won the selection and wished them good luck at the National Championships.

“I wish to congratulate all the schools who won the Provincial School League Championships and encourage those who did not make it through. These competitions are a very good platform for our learners because they get to expose their talents at different levels until to National. I wish them good luck and they need to work extremely hard in order to bring back Gold to the province”,said MEC Matsemela.
-TDN
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