Spectacular Inter-High!

Published on March,11 2019

On Friday, 22 February, Merensky High School hosted the annual Soutpansberg Athletics Inter-High, which was presented at Plasiepark, this year. High schools Pietersburg, Frans du Toit, Eric Louw, Louis Trichardt, Merensky, Northern Academy and HTS Tom Naudé gathered at Plasieland. In addition to the performances on the field and track, the schools' singing teams provided a spectacle on the pavilion. Early in the morning the singing teams took their place on the main pavilion. Each school's cheerleaders could showcase their spirited stories in 4 minutes during the entrance event. Jak de Priester, who performed at Merensky the previous night as part of the national OPTOG! Project, arrived by helicopter and…

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Plasie athletics on a roll

Published on March,04 2019

PHOTO: Mandi Botha, Elandri Janse van Rensburg & Valley Ngobeni. Insert: Vutomi Mkhabele. 11 to 15 February was a great week for the Merensky High School Athletics Team. Not one, not two, but three meetings kept the adrenaline levels in the blue. The group 7 & 8 PUK Inter-High at Alberton High School was first on the calendar on 11 February. Besides Merensky, high schools Rob Ferreira, Alberton, Uitsig and Curro Hazeldean, Curro Serengeti and St Stithians participated. Merensky finished second with 720.5 points, after Rob Ferreira. Again Elandri Janse van Rensburg (grade 8) and her javelin boasted with 2 awards: Junior Victrix Ludorum and Best Girl Field Athlete. Valley…

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Adrenaline pumping on Plasiepark

Published on February,04 2019

A very successful athletics invitational meeting was held on Saturday, 2 February, at Plasiepark hosted by Merensky High School. Athletes from high schools Pietersburg, Tom Naudé, Frans du Toit, Louis Trichardt and Merensky competed against each other on field and track. Star athlete, Elandri Janse van Rensburg (u.14), once again made the javelin sing with a new record. This record was set in 1996 and was improved from 30.88m to 34.87m. For the second weekend in a row, Elandri was named Junior Victrix Ludorum for the 2390 points she collected throughout the day with javelin throw, discus throw, shot put and the 200m. The Merensky team gathered 26 gold, 46…

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2017 Results

Louis Trichardt (21 January 2017)

SCORES:
Merensky – 1006
Louis Trichardt – 854
Eric Louw (Musina) – 176
Girls' College – 127
Ridgeway College – 104
Falcon College – 102

PLASIE ACHIEVEMENTS:
Senior girls track athlete: Sancha van Niekerk
Senior girls field athlete: Kgabo Mamorobela
Senior boys track athlete: Vutomi Mkhabele
Senior boys field athlete: Thato Shokane

Rob Ferreira, White River (27 January 2017)

SCORES:
Rob Ferreira (A & B teams) - 734
Merensky - 558
Middelburg - 554.5
Bergvlam - 325
Penryn - 216
Curro - 165.5
Uplands - 12

PLASIE ACHIEVEMENTS:
Best Senior Girls Athlete of the day: Lourencia van Dyk
New record: Girls u.17, 4 x 100m relay (was 53.52 min., now 52.70 min.)

@ Piet Potgieter High School, Mokopane (3 February 2017)

POINTS:
Piet Potgieter - 1286.5
Merensky - 1170
Nylstroom - 843
Louis Trichardt - 803
Heuwelkruin - 403.5

PLASIE ACHIEVEMENTS:

TOP 10 BOYS

No	Name and Surname	Event	Points
1	Vutomi Mkhabela	200m	862
2	Reuben Caroto	200m	839
3	Noko Malatji	200m	824
4	Andru Miller	100mH	809
5	Juandre Slippers	High jump	780
6	Igmatius Stucki	200m	772
7	Marnus Grobler	High jump	768
8	Seth Lathane	400mH	751
9	Ruan van Rooyen	200m	750
9	Dylon Herrendoerfer	400m	750

TOP 10 GIRLS

No	Name and Surname	Event	Points
1	Lourentia van Dyk	High jump	767
2	Emma Delrimple-Hay	High jump	761
3	Twane van Wyk	High jump	739
4	Sancha van Niekerk	400m	728
5	Bernalee Benade	Javelin	710
6	Kgabo Mamorobela	Long jump	709
7	Kesia Pohl	Shot put	703
8	Donne Oosthuizen	Shot put	691
9	Salome Lombard	Shot put	696
10	Simone van den Berg	100m	695

Laeveld Prestige Event @ Barberton High School (11 February 2017)

POINTS:
Rob Ferreira - 707
Merensky - 597
Bergvlam - 296
Lowveld High - 291
Barberton - 192
Frans du Toit - 134
Sybrand van Niekerk - 68

PLASIE ACHIEVEMENTS:

Records by:-
Kesia Pohl, u.16 girls shot put - 11.14m
Dillion de Lange, u.16 boys javelin - 53.16m
Sancha van Niekerk, u.17 girls 400m - 60s

Individual achievements:-

Dillion de Lange - best javelin athlete of the day. He registered with the u.16 boys and threw 53.16m.
Noko Malatjie - best hurdles athlete of the day. He registered with the u.19 boys and ran the 100mH in 14,90s.
Sancha van Niekerk - Senior Victrix Ludorum of the day.

TOP 10 BOYS

No	Name and Surname	Event	Points
1	Dillion de Lange	Javelin	808
2	Thato Shokane	100m	807
3	Vutomi Mkhabela	200m	806
4	Juandre Slippers	High jump	780
5	Ruan van Rooyen	200m	775
6	Noko Malatji	Long jump	765
7	Marnus Grobler	Long jump	763
8	Andru Miller	High jump	745
9	Dylon Herrendoerfer	100m	742
10	Mothibedi Mathlou	Long jump	739

TOP 10 DOGTERS

No	Name and Surname	Event	Points
1	Emma Delrimple-Hay	High jump	806
2	Kesia Pohl	Shot put	773
3	Lourentia van Dyk	High jump	767
4	Sancha van Niekerk	400m	747
5	Kgabo Mamorobela	Long jump	735
6	Salome Lombard	Shot put	727
7	Nikita Pohl	Javelin	724
8	Bernalee Benade	Javelin	720
9	Donne Oosthuizen	High jump	699
10	Leone Slabbert	200m	645

Prestige Top 10 Event @ LC de Villiers, TUKS, Pretoria (15 February 2017)

Merensky's 12 athletes obtained an average of 805 ABSA points.

RESULTS:

Name and Surname	Age	Details	Achievement	Points
BOYS
Noko Malatjie	U19	200m – 22,65s	14 / 37	809
Noko Malatjie	U19	110mH- 14,91s	5 / 13	812
Dylon Herrendoerfer	U19	200m- 22.89s	19 / 37	782
Dylon Herrendoerfer	U19	400m – 50,54s	6 / 14	768
Ruan van Rooyen	U14	200m – 25.26s	16 / 21	832
Ruan van Rooyen	U14	400m – 59,30s	4 / 8	646
Dillion de Lange	U16	Javelin – 48,90m	7 / 12	730
Andru Miller	U15	110m H–14,96s	13 / 24	728
Andru Miller	U15	High jump – 1,60m	19 / 27	784
Reuben Caroto	U16	100m – 11,74s	22 / 39	789
Reuben Caroto	U16	200m – 23,53s	25 / 45	875
GIRLS
Sancha van Niekerk	U17	200m – 26,30s	6th	777
Sancha van Niekerk	U17	400m – 58,46s	3rd	810
Emma Del-rimple Hay	U14	High jump – 1,35	21st	761
Kesia Pohl	U16	Shot put – 10,13m	17 / 22	689
Lourentia van Dyk	U16	High jump – 1,40m	8th	725
Lourentia van Dyk	U16	Javelin – 30,62m	10th	650
Salome Lombard	U14	Shot put – 10,03m	10th	694
Bernalee Benadee	U17	Javelin - 37,44m	3rd	756

2016 Results

Louis Trichardt (23 January 2016)

SCORES:
Merensky – 840
Louis Trichardt – 654
Noorderland
Falcon Crest
Eric Louw (Musina)
Groblersdal Academy

PLASIE ACHIEVEMENTS:
Junior girls track athlete: Steph-Marie de Lange
Junior girls field athlete: Christelle Coetzer
Junior boys field athlete: Tristan Patrick
Senior girls field athlete: Taytum Cawood
Senior boys track athlete: Noko Malatji

Rob Ferreira (29 January 2016)

SCORES:
Middelburg – 533
Merensky – 502
Rob Ferreira (White River) – 478
Ben Viljoen (Groblersdal) – 312
Bergvlam (Nelspruit) – 248
Penryn College (Nelspruit) – 205
Sybrand van Niekerk (Sabie) – 99
Uplands College (White River) – 65
Curro Nelspruit – 63

PLASIE ACHIEVEMENTS:
Junior Victrix Ludorum: Christelle Coetzer
Senior Victor Ludorum: Quiniso Madzhiga

Ben Viljoen, Groblersdal (5 February 2016)

SCORES:
Merensky – 763
Hoogenhout (Bethal) – 702
Ben Viljoen (Groblersdal) – 585
Hans Strijdom (Naboomspruit) – 355

Lowveld Prestige Meet (13 February 2016)

SCORES:
Merensky – 850
Rob Ferreira (White River) – 824
Frans du Toit (Phalaborwa) – 241
HTS Tom Naudé (Polokwane) – 216
Louis Trichardt – 184
Barberton – 116

PLASIE ACHIEVEMENTS:
Junior Victrix Ludorum: Christelle Coetzer
Senior Victrix Ludorum: Sancha van Niekerk
Senior Victor Ludorum: Noko Malatji

PLASIE MEDLAS:
58 Gold, 49 Silver and 40 Bronz.

Interhigh (19 February 2016)

SCORES:
Pietersburg – 762
Merensky – 666
Louis Trichardt – 407
Frans du Toit – 262
Eric Louw – 130
Northern Academy – 123
HTS Tom Naudé – 121

PLASIE ACHIEVEMENTS:
Victor Ludorum: Noko Malatji
Best junior track athlete: Christelle Coetzer
Best senior track athlete: Noko Malatji
Best senior field athlete: Lilly Pohl
Best girls team
Best total of Top 10 achievers

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2017 Results

Louis Trichardt (21 January 2017)

Rob Ferreira, White River (27 January 2017)

@ Piet Potgieter High School, Mokopane (3 February 2017)

Laeveld Prestige Event @ Barberton High School (11 February 2017)

Prestige Top 10 Event @ LC de Villiers, TUKS, Pretoria (15 February 2017)

2016 Results

Louis Trichardt (23 January 2016)

Rob Ferreira (29 January 2016)

Ben Viljoen, Groblersdal (5 February 2016)

Lowveld Prestige Meet (13 February 2016)

Interhigh (19 February 2016)