THURSDAY, 1.00PM:
WESTERN Province will play their Bankfin Currie Cup match against Border at Newlands on Sunday without their captain Dick Muir, because of injuries. Muir, who is expected to return next week for the game against Boland, will be replaced by Robbie Fleck.
WESTERN PROVINCE: Justin Swart, Andy Marinos, Christain Stewart, Robbie Fleck, Simon Berridge, Louis Koen, Michael Kirsten, Andrew Aitken (captain), Selborne Boome, Peet Arnolds, Louis Bloem, Phillip Schutte, Keith Andrews, Dher Rabbie, Toks vd Linde, RESERVES: Jan Maree, Johan van Wyk, Corne Kringe, Neil Hatley, Mark Catchpole, Vlok Cilliers.
BORDER: Greg Miller, David Maidza, Nico Venter, Kelly Hilton-Green, Andre Classen, John Bradbrook, Richard Bennet, Andre Fox, Bennie Jacobs, Anton Botha, Lyle Blakeway, Streicher Botha, Delarey du Preez, Ruhan v Zyl, Heinrich Kok, RESERVES: Ryan Pickering, Dale Heidtmann, Deon Coetzer, Johan Gehring, Greg Hunter, Rod Botha.
SPORT BRIEFS
BRITS WINS IN GERMANY SOUTH AFRICA’S Okkert Brits won the men’s pole vault event at the Hamburg Athletics meeting in Germany on Wednesday.
SA BOY SURPRISES SOUTH AFRICA’S under-14 star Dirk Stegmann won the Carl Gantoise Cup tennis event in Brussels, after beating Stephanie Bohli 2-6 6-4 6-3. South Africa also won the doubles with Stegmann and Andrew Anderson beating Bohli and Stephan Valent of Switzerland 7-6 7-6.
SQUASH CHAMPS CRAIG WAPNICK advanced to the semi-finals of the NEI Africa Rolls Royce Open squash championships at the Wits courts on Wednesday night. Wapnick will meet Alex Gough on Friday.
In the women’s quaterfinals, Carla Venter beat Annalize Naude, Claire Nitch beat Yolandi Cilliers and Natalie Grainger outplayed Viv Doeg.
U14s LOSE TO NEW ZEALAND SOUTH AFRICA’s rugby colts lost 46-20 to their New Zealand counterparts in the Four-Nations rugby champiopnships in North Sydney on Wednesday.
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