SUNDAY 8.00PM:
KAIZER Chiefs beat Orlando Pirates 2-0 to win the Iwisa Charity Spectacular for a record eighth time at the FNB Stadium in Johanesburg on Saturday.
The match was not brilliant by any stretch of the imagination, but it did show some weaknesses in the Pirates squad that will play Mamelodi Sundowns in the final of the BobSave Superbowl on Saturday.
Pirates dominated most of the match, but a lack of finishing cost them the match. The half-time score was 0-0.
Chiefs made an inspired replacement in the second half when they brought on Isaac Kungoane for Marc Batchelor. Doctor Khumalo then moved to striker, causing the game to flow much more freely than it did before.
Kungoane scored Chiefs’ first goal when he received from Robson Muchichwa, who beat three defenders with great running skills. Chiefs put the issue beyond doubt in the 85th minute when Muchichwa scored from a pass by Nigerian Wasui Ipaye, giving Pirates keeper William Okpara no chance.
In the first semifinal Chiefs beat Jomo Cosmos 8-7 on penalties. The match was deadlocked at 2-2 when the final whistle blew.
The second semifinal was also decided by way of penalties when Pirates and Sundowns drew 1-1 at full time. Pirates ran out 5-4 victors on penalties.
SPORT BRIEFS
DENMARK DUEL FOR MALINGA
THREE-time world super-middleweight champion “Sugarboy” Malinga is to fight International Boxing Organisation champion Mads Larssen in Demark on September 11, either in a unification or in a defence of his World Boxing Federation title. Malinga, 42, won the WBC title in 1996 and took the WBF title from Frederik Alvarez in Copenhagen in June. “I think Larsen will be more difficult than Alvarez,” said promoter Mike Segal. “Not because he’s tougher, but because he’s smarter.” Malinga is now number three on the computerised Independent World Boxing Ratings.
JUNIOR TENNIS SEEDING
THE seeds for this week’s international junior tournament, the MTN Johannesburg International, have been released by the South African Tennis Association. The tournament will be played at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on Tuesday and is on the International Tennis Federation world junior ranking tour.
Boys: 1-Andrew Mc Dade (RSA); 2-Jeroen Masson (RSA); 3-Rick de Voest (RSA); 4-Evan Fowler (RSA); 5-WP Meyer (RSA); 6-Samuel Fumi (TOG); 7-Dirk Stegmann (RSA); 8-Arnaud Segodo BEN); 9-Antoni Kiruki (KEN); 10-Hendrik Chasse (SUI); 11-Ingo Manning (RSA); 12-Tamba Samassa (MLI); 13-Paul Anderson (RSA); 14-John Fumi (TOG); 15-Michael Hoosein (RSA); 16-Felix Kobena (CIV)
Girls: 1-Natalie Grandin (RSA); 2-Aniela Mojzis (RSA); 3-Natasha vd Merwe (RSA); 4-Annalie De Bruyn (RSA); 5-Aina Rafolo (MAD); 6-Nancy Kockott (RSA); 7-Alima Mohammed (GHA); 8-Shelly Ogoe (GHA)
STUDENT GAMES AT WITS
SOUTH Africa beat Namibia 5-2 at Wits University on Monday in the opening soccer match of the ninth Africa Zone Six Cucsa (Confederation of University and College Sports Associations) Games. More than 1400 students and officials from 10 countries are involved. The games run to Friday. Teams from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, will be participating in athletics, basketball, football, netball, tennis, volleyball, chess, darts, rugby, softball, squash and table tennis.
BLIND TEAM SCORING IN MADRID
THE South African goalball team has won two matches and drawn another in the first two days of the World Blind Sports Championships in Madrid. The goalball team hopes to qualify for the Sydney Paralympics in 2000. They beat Italy 7-2 and Egypt 8-4, drawing 11-11 with the United States in their third game. They have four matches before them. South African track star Rory Field finished sixth and ninth respectively in the first and second rounds of the 200m, and sixth in the long jump final.
BURGER PUTS SHOT
LOCAL athlete Burger Lambrechts won the shot put with a distance of 20,23m at the Gateshead international athletics meeting in England on Sunday.
AUSSIE WINS GUNSTON 500
UNDERDOG Australian Shane Bevan on Sunday won the 30th Gunston 500 surfing tournament at Durban’s Dairy beach. Surfing a choppy 1,5m swell, Bevan fought back explosively to emerge the victor over Brazil’s Phabio Gouvea and fellow Australians Todd Prestage and Munga Barry.
AUSSIE COLTS KEEP TITLE
DEFENDING champions Australia held on to the Sanzar/UAR Under-21 rugby title on Saturday when they beat Argentina 24-7 in the final, after leading 10-7 at the break.
Meanwhile, a last-minute dropped goal by flyhalf Andre Pretorius gave South Africa a hard-won 18-16 victory over New Zealand in the final match of the tournament.
14 MEDALS FOR SA YOUTHS
SOUTH Africans collected a total of 14 medals at the World Youth Games, which closed in Moscow on Saturday. Cape Town swimmer Sarah Poewe took two golds, in the 100m and 200m breaststroke. Another Capetonian, Paul Gorries, took gold in the 100m sprint, and silvers in the 200m sprint and the 4x400m relay. SA’s other gold was won by Zinelle Grobler in the girls’ 1000m. Best SA team performance came from the track and field squad, who took nine of the 14 medals.
LOCALS STRUGGLE IN OPEN
AMERICAN Mark O’Meara pulled off a classic double by winning the British Open on Sunday. The 41-year-old became only the third post-war golfer to have won both the US Masters and the British Open in the same year. South African golf hero Ernie Els made heavy going of the tournament, finishing together with Zimbabwe’s Nick Price on 12-over 292.
ROSE TURNS PRO
THE British Open was not all bad news for South Africans — 17-year-old SA-born amateur Justin Rose finished the amateur competition joint third and is going pro to celebrate. Rose’s next tournament will be the Dutch Open next week, where he will play as a professional.
MORE CUPS FOR GRAINGER
FOR the second year running, Natalie Grainger took two trophies at the Hansa SA National squash doubles championships. On Saturday, she won the women’s doubles with Claire Nitch, followed by the mixed doubles with Rodney Durbach.
MOZ GRABS LATE GOAL
MOZAMBIQUE snatched a late goal to force a 1-1 draw against Angola on Sunday in a Cosafa Castle Cup match at Machava stadium in Maputo.
SA DEFEATS NZ
SOUTH Africa’s Under-21 side narrowly defeated their New Zealand counterparts by 18-16 as flyhalf Andre Pretorius slotted a dropgoal to take his side to victory in the final match of the Sanzar/UAR Under-21 tournament in Cape Town. The Australian Under-21 side beat the Argentine juniors by 24-7 to win the Under-21 championship on Saturday.