2022 Men's Varsity Hockey (South Africa)

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Tournament details
Host country Pretoria
City South Africa
Dates5 October 2022 (2022-10-05)–6 October 2022 (2022-10-06)
Venue(s) University of Pretoria
Final positions
Champions Tuks
Runner-up Wits
Third place Maties
Tournament statistics
Matches played4
Goals scored30 (7.5 per match)
Top scorer(s) Kenoe Christians (UJ)
Guy Morgan (Tuks) (4 goals)
Best player Bradley Sherwood [1]
2019 (W) (previous)(next) 2023

The 2022 Men's Hockey Varsity Hockey will be the 10th edition of the Varsity Hockey, the annual tournament men's field hockey championship of South Africa. [2]

Contents

In addition to the Power Play rule seen in previous seasons of Varsity Hockey, whereby each team can select to implement a two-minute period where goals count two and the opposition must bench two players, field goals will now count two. [3] [4]

Results

Fixtures

5 October 2022
18:20
Wits 5–3 UJ
Hermanus Field hockey ball.svg 5'
Van den Berg Field hockey ball.svg 34'
Lourens Field hockey ball.svg 56'
Report Bennett Field hockey ball.svg 21'
Christians Field hockey ball.svg 49'
5 October 2022
20:20
Maties 2–5 Tuks
Jarvis Field hockey ball.svg 17' Report Campbell Field hockey ball.svg 2'
Morgan Field hockey ball.svg 51'
de Lora Field hockey ball.svg 55'

3 & 4

6 October 2022
13:00
UJ 3–5 Maties
Bennett Field hockey ball.svg 10'
Christians Field hockey ball.svg 34'
Report Van Tonder Field hockey ball.svg 2'
Proctor Field hockey ball.svg 8'
Melville Field hockey ball.svg 44'

Final

6 October 2022
18:30
Tuks 4–3 Wits
Morgan Field hockey ball.svg 4', 6', 51'
Sherwood Field hockey ball.svg 44'
Report Lourens Field hockey ball.svg 23'
Riley Field hockey ball.svg 40'
Horan Field hockey ball.svg 53'

Final standings

PosTeam
Gold medal icon.svg Tuks (H)
Silver medal icon.svg WITS
Bronze medal icon.svg Maties
4 UJ
Source: SA Hockey
(H) Host

Goalscorers

There were 30 goals scored in 4 matches, for an average of 7.5 goals per match.

4 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: SAHA

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References

  1. @tukshockey (9 October 2022). "The past week saw some really talented hockey players. One of the guys that stood out was Bradley Sherwood, who has been named The Suzuki Player of the Tournament. Huge congratulations BAD BRAD" via Instagram.
  2. VarsitySportsSA (20 September 2022). "A Festival of Sport is coming to Pretoria in October 2022". varsitysportssa.com. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  3. "Varsity Hockey bends the rules to double the thrill". Varsity Sport. 2 May 2017.
  4. "Players' thoughts on Varsity Hockey's Power Play". Varsity Sports. 17 May 2019.