11 October 2025
(Feature photo: Clifton School on Facebook)
While there was plenty of action over the weekend, with many schools’ teams involved in festivals, Clifton College and St Charles College met in a traditional array of fixtures. The spotlight, though, belonged to Clifton’s u16 water polo team, who powered their way to the Nick Rey Water Polo Tournament title at DHS in impressive fashion.
In 2024, Clifton’s u15 water polo team lifted the KZN Top 10 title, dominating their opposition. Over the weekend, a year on, the Clifton u16 team demonstrated similar mastery of their opposition in claiming the Nick Rey title.
They played nine and won nine. The closest any team came to Clifton was Westville Boys’ High, whom Clifton beat 7-4 in the quarterfinals. The next closest results was a 9-4 win over Affies.
In the semi-finals and final, Clifton scored emphatic wins over Affies and Kearsney respectively, beating both by 6-1 margins.
RESULTS
Clifton 12-6 Northwood
Clifton 15-0 DHS
Clifton 18-2 Glenwood
Clifton 9-4 Affies
Clifton 23-0 Reddam Umhlanga
Clifton 12-1 Jeppe
Quarterfinals: 7-4 Westville
Semifinals: 6-1 Affies
Final: 6-1 Kearsney
CRICKET
At the Riverside Sports Club, the Clifton 1st XI scored a composed win over the St Charles 1st XI.
Clifton also picked up an impressive win in the u15 clash, but the remainder of the results tilted the way of Saints.
RESULTS
2nd XI
Clifton 128/9 (Yusuf Ahmed 41, Jack Smith 32, C. Gladman 4/34); St Charles 129/2 (R. Thiselton 53*, C. Gladman 31)
St Charles won by eight wickets
3rd XI
St Charles 411/3 (T. Edkins 106, M. Hansen 116, J. Nicholson 55); Clifton 43/10 (T. Simba 4/13)
St Charles won by 368 runs
u15A
St Charles 97/10 (Naicker 4/12); Clifton 101/2 (Drieselmann 38*, Malek 30)
Clifton won by eight wickets
u15B
Clifton 60/10 (R. Raw 3/2); St Charles 62/0 (L. Nicholls 34*)
St Charles won by 10 wickets
u14A
St Charles 235/10 (J. Galliers 61, S. Spencer 55; James Maujean 5/37); Clifton 97/10 (C. Hughes 3/5)
St Charles won by 138 runs
u14B
Clifton 131/10 (Vivek Patel 58; S. Dlamini 3/18; St Charles 134/4 (H. Cheeseman 68*)
St Charles won by six wickets
u14C
Clifton 50/10 (Zuma 21; A. Briscoe 3/3); St Charles 51/1
St Charles won by nine wickets
BASKETBALL
On the basketball court, St Charles dominated. The Pietermaritzburg school has long been one of the province’s powers in the game, and often one of the best in the country, and they showed off enviable depth to make a clean sweep of the results.
In the game of the day, Saints edged out Clifton by only four points in the u15A clash.
RESULTS
1st: Clifton 42-71 St Charles
2nd: Clifton 27-35 St Charles
3rd: Clifton 23-45 St Charles
16A: Clifton 24-28 St Charles
16B: Clifton 2-52 St Charles
16C: Clifton 0-50 St Charles
15A: Clifton 17-28 Queen’s Home Turf Hoops
15B: Clifton 10-54 St Charles
15C: Clifton 12-32 St Charles
15D: Clifton 8-36 St Charles
14A: Clifton 19-37 St Charles
14B: Clifton 19-38 St Charles
14C: Clifton 10-28 St Charles
14D: Clifton 8-28 St Charles u14E
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