Maritzburg United 2-0 Casric Stars
Maritzburg United handed Casric Stars their first defeat of the season in the Motsepe Foundation Championship with a 2-0 victory on Friday.
Attacking midfielder Kevin Maswanganyi gave the Team of Choice the perfect start with a simple finish before Ismail Njoti bagged the second from the head in additional time.
With Stars given their maiden loss, the Team of Choice collected their second win of the campaign and moved into second spot on the table.
JDR Stars 1-0 Baroka FC
JDR Stars overcame a run of successive draws and bagged their first win of the season in the Motsepe Foundation Championship following a 1-0 triumph over Baroka FC on Saturday.
After playing to goalless draws from their opening two matches, the Hammerboys finally got off the mark as Banele Hlophe struck the winner in the first half and separated matters.
NB La Masia 0-1 Magesi FC
NB La Masia succumbed to their maiden loss of the campaign in the second tier after going down 1-0 to Magesi FC out at the Dobsonville Stadium.
Having made a bright start to the season with four points from their opening two matches, La Masia were desperate to continue that vein.
Magesi though had other ideas as Mcedi Vandala came up with the goods to see the side to maximum points and furthermore ensured their second win of the term.
Platinum City Rovers 0-0 Marumo Gallants FC
Marumo Gallants FC drew blanks once again following yet another frustrating goalless draw against Platinum City Rovers.
Gallants, who were relegated from the top flight last season, have three points from three stalemates whilst Rovers sit on two points following two draws and a loss.
Venda Football Academy 1-1 Pretoria Callies
Pretoria Callies rallied from a narrow deficit to avoid a first defeat of the season after holding the Venda Football Academy to a 1-1 draw.
It took the host just nine minutes to go ahead as veteran striker Moeketsi Sekola tucked in from the penalty spot following a foul in the area by the visiting side.
With time running out, Callies managed to salvage a point to leave both the Romans and Venda winless from three matches played so far.
Orbit College FC 2-0 Black Leopards
Newly-promoted Orbit College jumped to the top of the Motsepe Foundation Championship standings after seeing off Black Leopards 2-0 on Sunday.
Orbit were ahead at the break and duly doubled their lead following the resumption as Lidoda Duvha succumbed to their second loss of the season and languish down the bottom-two bracket.
Hungry Lions FC 1-1 Upington City
Hungry Lions FC failed to close the gap on the top-two in the Championship with a 1-1 draw against Upington City in the Northern Cape derby.
Di Tau needed just seven minutes to make the breakthrough as a diagonal ball released Raymond Daniels out wide and the player made no mistake.
The visitors bounced back in the second half and snatched a point through Trevor Mokwena and saw Lions drop to fourth-place on the standings with Upington in sixth.
Milford FC 0- 1 University of Pretoria
Milford FC slumped to a third successive defeat in the Championship and remained bottom of the table following a 1-0 loss to the University of Pretoria.
AmaTuks netted the winner in the final quarter of the match through S'bahle Ndlovu and furthermore handed the visitors their first win of the campaign.
The visitors, who were in bottom-two prior to the clash, surged to ninth spot on the back of win over their counterparts from the KwaZulu-Natal province.
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