WHS, Walvis Bay school hockey champs

THE Windhoek High School (WHS) girls’ first hockey team and Walvis Bay boys’ first team defended their schools’ national championship titles successfully.

The WHS girls were awesome as they thumped all their opponents with huge margins. In the first match, WHS hammered Mariental High School 5-0.After that match, WHS went on to demolish Namib High School 8-0 and then their third victims were Etosha High School from Tsumeb, whom they thrashed 7-0.The WHS girls have now won the national schools’ champs 15 times.They are coached by senior women’s national coach Erwin Handura.The Walvis Bay boys also ended on the winning side for the third consecutive year.They beat St.Paul’s and Keetmanshoop Private School to take the trophy back to Walvis Bay.The upset of the day was when Keetmanshoop Private School (KPS) forced the WHS under-16 girls to a goalless draw to win the gold medals for the southern region.WHS, coached by national men’s coach Johan Weyhe, had many chances to wrap up the match but wasted all of them.Full results were as follows: Girls u/16 1.Keetmanshoop Private School (gold) 2.Windhoek High School (silver) 3.Walvis Bay High School (bronze) (Girls) Second League 1.Jan Mohr 2.Rehoboth High 3.Namib High First League (Girls) 1.WHS, 2.Mariental, 3.Etosha Boys First League 1.Walvis Bay High 2 St.Paul’s 3.Keetmanshoop Private School Second League 1.Duneside, 2.Dr.Lemmer, 3.St.Pauls About 210 players represented 17 schools from many parts of Namibia.Twenty-one matches took place at the Jubber Fields to end the schools’ hockey season.In the first match, WHS hammered Mariental High School 5-0.After that match, WHS went on to demolish Namib High School 8-0 and then their third victims were Etosha High School from Tsumeb, whom they thrashed 7-0.The WHS girls have now won the national schools’ champs 15 times.They are coached by senior women’s national coach Erwin Handura.The Walvis Bay boys also ended on the winning side for the third consecutive year.They beat St.Paul’s and Keetmanshoop Private School to take the trophy back to Walvis Bay.The upset of the day was when Keetmanshoop Private School (KPS) forced the WHS under-16 girls to a goalless draw to win the gold medals for the southern region.WHS, coached by national men’s coach Johan Weyhe, had many chances to wrap up the match but wasted all of them.Full results were as follows: Girls u/16 1.Keetmanshoop Private School (gold) 2.Windhoek High School (silver) 3.Walvis Bay High School (bronze) (Girls) Second League 1.Jan Mohr 2.Rehoboth High 3.Namib High First League (Girls) 1.WHS, 2.Mariental, 3.Etosha Boys First League 1.Walvis Bay High 2 St.Paul’s 3.Keetmanshoop Private School Second League 1.Duneside, 2.Dr.Lemmer, 3.St.Pauls About 210 players represented 17 schools from many parts of Namibia.Twenty-one matches took place at the Jubber Fields to end the schools’ hockey season.