2019 Varsity Sports (South Africa)

2019 Varsity Sport

Tournament information
Sport	Athletics Association football Basketball Cricket Field Hockey Mountain bike Netball Rugby sevens
Date	2019
Administrator	Varsity Sports
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The 2019 Varsity Sport, the 10 season of a South African university.

Basketball

4-6 and 10–12 October, Wits Multi-purpose Sports Hall, University of the Witwatersrand. Significantly, Varsity Women's Basketball will make its debut this time around. ^[1]

Women

VUT 58(1) - 58(0) NWU, first six shootout efforts, VUT is win ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Men

UJ 64 - Tuks 57 ^[5]

Cricket

Tuks final against UJ at Senwes Park, Potchefstroom ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	6 September - Senwes Park [9]
	Tuks	129/5
					7 September – Senwes Park
	Maties	125/7
					UJ	55/7
	6 September – Senwes Park
					Tuks	60/2
	UJ	204/4
	NWU	166/8

Awards

• MTN Pulse Best Bowler of the Tournament: Sean Gilson (UP-Tuks) ^[10]
• Best batsman of the tournament: Lourén Steenkamp (NWU)^{[ citation needed ]}
• FNB Player of the tournament: Neil Brand (UP-Tuks)^{[ citation needed ]}

Football

Men

NWU (beat TUT 1–0) ^{[11] [12]}

Women

TUT (beat UWC 4–1 in shootout after 1-1 full-time) ^[13]

Hockey

Main article: 2019 Women's Varsity Hockey (South Africa)

First legs: UCT Hockey, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch ^[14]
Two legs: NWU Astro, North-West University, Potchefstroom

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Maties	7	5	0	1	1	27	6	+21	16	Semi-Final
2	NWU (H)	7	5	0	0	2	21	11	+10	15
3	Kovsie	7	4	1	0	2	40	20	+20	14
4	Tuks	7	4	0	0	3	27	16	+11	12
5	UJ (E)	7	3	1	1	2	12	16	−4	12
6	Ikeys	7	3	0	1	3	19	21	−2	10
7	WITS	7	1	1	0	5	12	24	−12	5
8	Madibaz	7	0	0	0	7	9	54	−45	0

Source: SA Hockey
(E) Eliminated; (H) Host

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	13 May - NWU Astro
	Maties	7
					20 May – NWU Astro
	Tuks	5
					Maties	0(1)
	13 May – NWU Astro
					NWU	0(2)
	Kovsie	4
	NWU	5

Final standings

Pos	Team v t e
1	NWU (H)
2	Maties
3	Kovsie
4	Tuks
5	Ikeys
6	UJ
7	WITS
8	Madibaz

Source: SA Hockey
(H) Host

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

Player of the tournament	Goalkeeper of the tournament	Top goalscorer
Onthatile Zulu (Tuks) [15]		Simoné Gouws (Kovsie) [16]

Mountain bike

FNB Wines2Whales Pinotage, Oak Valley Estate in Elgin, 28–30 October 2019, the three-day stage race. Teams from Stellenbosch University (Maties), the University of Cape Town (UCT), North-West University (NWU), University of Pretoria (Tuks), Nelson Mandela University (Madibaz) and the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), will be invited to compete. Each of the six universities will be invited to send two teams; either men's, women's or one of each. ^{[17] [18]}

Men

Men MTB

	Team	Users	Stage 1 [19]	Stage 2 [20]	Stage 3 [21]	Final standings [22]
1	UCT	Richard Simpson Michael Lambrecht	02:49.38,0	02:54.54,7	02:53.11,6	08:37.45,0
2	Tuks	Andries Nigrini Antonie Joubert	02:49.03,0	03:01.00,0	02:55.17,6	08:45.21,0
3	Maties	Michael Sutton Morné Hollander	03:12.16,0	03:24.06,8	03:14.37,0	09:51.00,1
4	Madibaz	Jan Venter Munro Munnik	03:36.51,0	03:25.22,6	03:19.29,9	10:21.44,0
5	NWU	Brendan van Eeden Christo Botes	03:17.37,0	03:43.04,6	03:22.42,4	10:23.24,9
6	TUT	Vian Pretorius Shaun-Cameron Swanepoel	04:08.56,0	03:58.51,9	03:51.18,2	11:59.06,0

Women

Caption

	Team	User	Stage 1 [23]	Stage 2 [24]	Stage 3 [25]	Final standings [22]
1	UCT	Courteney Webb Amy Tait	03:41.10	03:45.31,1	03:31.08,4	10:57.54,0
2	Maties	Catherine Pellow-Jarmain Susan Kruger	03:52.42	03:51.11,0	03:37.15,6	11:21.08,0
3	Madibaz	Jean-Marie Roelofse Stacey Hyslop	04:08.32	04:09.56,0	03:35.51,0	11:54.19,3
4	Tuks	Tanya Kotze Michelle Benson	04:03.26	04:04.14,5	03:50.26,1	11:58.07,4
5	NWU	Nicolene Marais Ané Jacobs	05:06.33	04:31.23,5	04:08.06,4	13:46.03,0

Netball

UP-Tuks are the Varsity Netball champions, and became the first team to do so unbeaten throughout, after beating Maties 48–43 on 7 October 2019, Rembrandt Hall, University of Pretoria. ^{[26] [27]}

7s Rugby

4-5 October 2019, Pirates Rugby Club, Greenside, Johannesburg

Women

The inaugural Varsity Women's 7s ^[28] The teams competing are; UP-Tuks (University of Pretoria), UJ (University of Johannesburg), UKZN (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and UFH (University of Fort Hare). ^[29] Tuks possibly played one of their best games of the season when they beat UFH in the final 46-0 ^[30]

Men

Quarter-finals

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	5 October 9:11 [31]
	Kovsies	14
					12:07 [32]
	Madibaz	17
					Madibaz	12
	5 October 9:33
					UJ	26
	UJ	37
									16:09 [33]
	CPUT	7
									UJ	20
	5 October 9:55
									Maties	0
	UWC	17
					12:29
	UP-Tuks	41
					UP-Tuks	5
	5 October 10:17
					Maties	24			Third place
	NWU	14
									15:03 [34]
	Maties	31
									Madibaz	5
									UP-Tuks	36

Bowl Semi-Finals Fixtures

	Semi-finals				Bowl Final (5th/6th Place)
	5 October 12:51 [32]
	Kovsies	21
					14:41 [34]
	CPUT	24
					CPUT	19
	5 October 13:13
					MWU	34
	UWC	24
	NWU	33
					7th/8th Place
					14:19 [34]
					Kovsies	5
					UWC	40

^[31]

See also

• Varsity Sports (South Africa)
• 2019 Varsity Cup

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