Envirosan Old Boys went on the rampage completely annihilating a luckless Maritzburg Varsity line up 75-0 at their Riverside Tungay Park home grounds last Friday evening in the only House of Paint Premier Division club rugby game played at the weekend.

Old Boys have accumulated a number of worthwhile big victory margins this year, which could well benefit them at the close of the season as the league looks destined to go down to the wire and one gets the distinct feeling that the outcome of the 2009 competition could well end up relying on points for and against at the end of it all.

In the Under 20 ‘A’ Basil Medway Knockout quarter finals played on Saturday with 2008 champions House of Paint College Rovers finding their way through to the semi-finals after beating a vastly improved ChemSpec Jaguars side 50-0. Rovers will definitely need to intensify their focus from here on in for the rest of the season especially after a disappointing first half leading only 7-0 at the break. As the top dogs to think that all you need to do is arrive to claim victory is a dangerous attitude to adopt as it clearly showed that the underdogs Jaguars arrived to play, and play they did.

In the other quarter final games Old Boys beat Jonsson Crusaders 41-0, Acer Durban Collegians accounted for Empangeni 32-12 and Airtron Coastal Harlequins won their game 27-6 against Midlands.

In the Under 20 ’B’ D.W. Geddie Knockout competition College Rovers ‘B’ were given a run for their money only managing to edge out Hillcrest 18-12 while Durban Collegians beat Old Boys 41-6 and Harlequins won their quarter-final clash against Crusaders 48-20. In the remaining game South Coast Warriors find them selves in the semi-finals after beating Midlands ‘B’ 24-17

Gestetner Maritzburg Collegians are through to the semi-finals of the Chris Edwards Cup Under 20 ‘C’ Knockout after accounting for Maritzburg Waratahs. Rovers ‘C’ team also go through unopposed, while in the Ashley Bowles Knockout Cup competition Wentworth found a place in the semis with a 56-0 victory over Newlands East Brumbies

In the First Division league Amanzimtoti literally destroyed Kokstad 110-0 making it a truly sad day for the game in East Griqualand for the oldest club in KZN. Any result of this nature is certainly not good for the game as a whole but it’s so much harder to bear when one looks back at the history of this once hugely competitive Second Division club that has even won the Captain Morgan Murray Cup way back in 1920 - and is in fact the only Second Division club to ever have won the prestigious trophy.

In the other games Ballito Dolphins beat Wentworth 41-0, South Coast Warriors accounted for Maritzburg Waratahs 58-6 and Maritzburg Collegians beat Durban Varsity 27-14.

The Premier Division gets back into full swing on Friday evening with all the sides leading the way on the log table travelling away. Durban Collegians travel to Empangeni to face Thanda Zululand Rhinos at Mick Kelley Park, Crusaders visit Jaguars in Sydenham, Old Boys will be hosted by Harlequins out on the Bluff and Rovers take a trip to the Capital to meet Maritzburg Varsity at the Piet Booysen Grounds in Washington Road

- Jos Robson - The Mercury