An action-packed and successful SPAR KZN Hockey Tournament at St Dominics Newcastle. On Saturday, 6 May we hosted the SPAR Girls Hockey Tournament at St Dominics Newcastle. With preparations and set up starting early on Friday morning, the sports department from St Dominics were very eager to get this tournament underway! The facilities were ready to go by Friday evening at 21:30 and everyone got to have some sleep before the big day.

On Saturday we started setting up from 06:00 to ensure that our facilities were ready for action. The teams started arriving from 07:30 and the weather was quite chilly compared to the sizzling hockey action about to be seen on the Astroturf. Teams were hyped-up and keen to do their best to contribute to getting their team into the finals. The St Dominics team dominated its pool from the get go! With incredible results throughout the rest of the tournament, St Dominics did not give up and kept working hard to get their first SPAR Northern KZN Region Cup.

St Dominics ended up facing Ferrum High School in the final and what a match it was! Both teams played their hearts out and the match ended in a draw, taking it to 8-second shootout. The 8 second shootout was very dramatic, but the captain of the St Dominics side, Ciana Captain ensured her team tied the shootout and forced a round of sudden death. It was once again Ciana Captain who took her shot at goal in the sudden death round with the utmost confidence and was successful! Ferrum was not as fortunate, and the two back to back goals of Captain won her team the final of the Northern KZN Region SPAR Hockey Tournament! St Dominics will take part in July at the KZN SPAR Girls Final, which takes place at St Marys DSG in Kloof. We are very proud of all the girls and wish them all the best with the finals!”