PERINS School have made a strong start to their two-week sporting tour of South Africa. The tourists from Alresford have only lost once in the first two series of matches. Year 10 girls’ netball (A and B) and hockey team and year 10 and 11 rugby teams have played Somerset College and Bergvliet schools in Cape Town. The hockey team were thrashed 12-1 by Somerset, the top-ranked school in South Africa. But they bounced back to beat Bergvliet 2-0. This is the fourth time the secondary school have visited the country. The only disappointment has been the cancellation of the climb of Table Mountain because of poor weather. They have also been surfing visited Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and later will go on a two-day safari. On Sunday they flew to Durban for more matches on Tuesday against Durban Girls High School and Maritzburg College and Thursday at Ogwini Comprehensive High School. They return to Heathrow on Monday August 5.
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