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Windhoek captain, Josh Bessingers, said the match was tough.
“This match was very tough but we enjoyed the festival despite losing our last match and it was not good because we hoped to win all our three matches.
“Our previous matches were not tough, we played as a team and taking part in the festival was a good thing for us,”said Bessinger.
Windhoek Tech was not the only team which started the festival on a good note and dropped their level of play as Lomagundi College also finished poorly in this event.
Falcon dismissed Lomangundi 43-5 while St John’s College, who had a good start in their first two games, also suffered a 32-11 defeat at the hands of Churchill.
Hellenic School was one of the teams that registered three wins in their fixtures. In their first match of the festival Hellenic beat Milton 26-2 before hammering Heritage 48-0 and ended the festival on good note when they beat the hopeless Victoria High 31-0.
Watershed beat Allan Wilson 29-17 while Milton beat Gateway 17-6.
Midlands Christian College beat Vainona 34-12 while Heritage School beat Petra 20-12.
Prince Edward School sports director/festival organiser, Sebastian Garikai, said the festival was more interesting this year as it was a day-night event.
“Everything went well and we had ‘The Beast’ Tendai Mtawarira who came to share his story on his rugby career to inspire most of the up-coming players.
“Most rugby players did not know him and they were happy to see him,” said Garikai.
Meanwhile, St. Ignatius College, under their newly-appointed coach Tendai Sakupwanya, came to the Cottco Schools Rugby Festival in an unrated minor which traditionally had no rugby worth writing home about but managed to make bold stand, attracting a two-year sponsorship deal. Local businessman, Nigel Mungame, was approached by Sakupwanya to have a look at the boys and their sterling performances were enough to convince him to sponsor the Jesuit school’s first team for the 2013-14 seasons.
Sakupwanya highlighted that Maungame is the first confirmed sponsor who will take care of all the boys’ kit needs which stretch from jerseys, tracksuits all the way up to their kit bags. There are a lot of parents who also showed interest and made pledges to invest in the St. Ignatius School rugby programme.
St. Ignatius beat super 8’s school Kyle College’s second team 7-5 in a nail-bitter on Monday last week, then lost to Prince Edward second string side 30-0 before they went on to trounce Mutare Boys High 17-0. —
Online Reporter