2022 Men's Varsity Hockey (South Africa)

Tournament details
Host country	Pretoria
City	South Africa
Dates	5 October 2022–6 October 2022
Venue(s)	University of Pretoria
Final positions
Champions	Tuks
Runner-up	Wits
Third place	Maties
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4
Goals scored	30 (7.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kenoe Christians (UJ); Guy Morgan (Tuks) (4 goals)
Best player	Bradley Sherwood
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The 2022 Men's Hockey Varsity Hockey will be the 10th edition of the Varsity Hockey, the annual tournament men's field hockey championship of South Africa.^[2]

In addition to the Power Play rule seen in previous seasons of Varsity Hockey, whereby each team can select to implement a two-minute period where goals count two and the opposition must bench two players, field goals will now count two.^[3]^[4]

Results

Fixtures

5 October 2022
18:20

Wits	5–3	UJ
Hermanus 5' Van den Berg 34' Lourens 56'	Report	Bennett 21' Christians 49'

5 October 2022
20:20

Maties	2–5	Tuks
Jarvis 17'	Report	Campbell 2' Morgan 51' de Lora 55'

3 & 4

6 October 2022
13:00

UJ	3–5	Maties
Bennett 10' Christians 34'	Report	Van Tonder 2' Proctor 8' Melville 44'

Final

6 October 2022
18:30

Tuks	4–3	Wits
Morgan 4', 6', 51' Sherwood 44'	Report	Lourens 23' Riley 40' Horan 53'

Final standings

Pos	Team
1	Tuks (H)
2	WITS
3	Maties
4	UJ

Source: SA Hockey
(H) Host

Goalscorers

There were 30 goals scored in 4 matches, for an average of 7.5 goals per match.

4 goals

Kenoe Christians (UJ)
Guy Morgan (Tuks)

2 goals

Peter Jarvis (Maties)
Kenton Melville (Maties)
Ben Proctor (Maties)
Dechlan Bennett (UJ)
Jared Campbell (Tuks)
Trevor de Lora (Tuks)
Liam Hermanus (Wits)
Luke Lourens (Wits)
Michael van den Berg (Wits)

1 goal

Jacque van Tonder (Maties)
Bradley Sherwood (Tuks)
Michael Horan (Wits)
Brad Riley (Wits)

Source: SAHA

References

^ @tukshockey (9 October 2022). "The past week saw some really talented hockey players. One of the guys that stood out was Bradley Sherwood, who has been named The Suzuki Player of the Tournament. Huge congratulations BAD BRAD" – via Instagram.
^ VarsitySportsSA (20 September 2022). "A Festival of Sport is coming to Pretoria in October 2022". varsitysportssa.com. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
^ "Varsity Hockey bends the rules to double the thrill". Varsity Sport. 2 May 2017.
^ "Players' thoughts on Varsity Hockey's Power Play". Varsity Sports. 17 May 2019.

[1] @tukshockey (9 October 2022). "The past week saw some really talented hockey players. One of the guys that stood out was Bradley Sherwood, who has been named The Suzuki Player of the Tournament. Huge congratulations BAD BRAD" – via Instagram.

[2] VarsitySportsSA (20 September 2022). "A Festival of Sport is coming to Pretoria in October 2022". varsitysportssa.com. Retrieved 27 October 2022.

[3] "Varsity Hockey bends the rules to double the thrill". Varsity Sport. 2 May 2017.

[4] "Players' thoughts on Varsity Hockey's Power Play". Varsity Sports. 17 May 2019.