OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00AM.
THE boys from Highland High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, provided one of the biggest surprises in the finals of the World Schools Rugby championships played in Harare on Tuesday.
The American boys, playing for third and fourth spot against Tonga’s Tupou College, beat the boys from the South Seas by 25-24. The Tongans were, however, without six of their star players after a brutal semifinal on Sunday against South Africa’s Monument High School.
Monument will take on the Kelston College team from Auckland, New Zealand in the final of the competition at Prince Edward school on Wednesday. The size of the Kelston boys is impressive, with prop Karena Wihongi tipping the scales at 132kg.
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