Vesta – Stellenbosch

After last weekend’s draw against Concordia the Vesta boys had time to prepare for their next game against Olympus that took place on Saturday the 11^th of May. As the guys pitch up at Lentelus stadium for the game a winning atmosphere arose between them. Going on the field the boys started the game well and scored two goals in the first half. Olympus then also scored late in the half, but the Vesta boys was like a pack of attacking dogs and the Olympus goal was their fuel. Unfortunately it was half time. After the break a well-rested Vesta team took the field again and started demolishing Olympus in the second half with the right attitude and necessary discipline. The game then ending with a score of 5-1 for the Vesta boys. Another glorious victory for the Vestonians. In the coming week they will be preparing for their game next weekend and just as hard for the exams that are almost at our doorstep.

On the 9^th of May Vesta played a game of action cricket against WP Vleis. Vesta won the toss and elected to bat first. Vesta scored 146 runs from their 16 overs and WP Vleis managed only 19 runs. Our best batsman and man of the match was Alexander Conradie with 30 runs and our best bowler for the match was Pieter Bouwsema with a hatrick and 6 wickets. Vesta won by an outstanding 127 runs.

Vesta’s first tennis team played Olympus on Thursday afternoon. The team consisted of Peter Andersen, Stephan Theron, Jaco Venter and Schalk Brand. It was a tough few games and even with the light fading Vesta fought back and ended it all with a draw. Peter, Jaco and Schalk won their singles matches. Vesta lost both the doubles matches and Stefan lost in his singles match. The final score was 12-12.

Vesta played action cricket against an experienced club called Coronation. Unfortunately Vesta lost by 104 runs. The best batsmen were Alexander Conradie with 25 and Paul Kruger with with 12 runs. Alexander was also our best bowler with 3 wickets and economy of 3.5 an over.

Another great weekend of soccer for the Vestonians. On Saturday the 4^th of May the boys from Vesta played against Concordia residents. It was a lovely Saturday morning with the sun shining and a perfect day for soccer. The guys where amped for the game and did their best from the kick off. They played an excellent first half and regrouped for the second half. At the start of the second half Neo scored a excellent goal which resulted in a score of 1-0 for Vesta. Concordia picked up their game and also scored later in the second half.  One of our guys got a yellow card almost at the end of the second half. As tension built up for the last few minutes of game play Concordia received a penalty kick which they missed. This resulted in the game ending 1-1. We are very proud of our boys for playing extremely well and hard.

The Vesta squash team took on Helshoogte in the past week and beat them rather convincingly winning 4 – 0. Congratulations must go meinard, Ebin, Jaco-ben and Jared for each winning their squash matches respectively giving Vesta a clean sweep over Helshoogte.