A festival of summer in Hornlee

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KNYSNA NEWS - After a break in 2020 due to Covid-19, the annual Hornlee Summer Festival returned this year with three days of action at the Hornlee Sports Grounds last weekend.

The programme featured a busy itinerary, focusing largely on activities that could use the facilities at the sports grounds. Proceedings kicked off with a day/night game of cricket on Friday 17 December.

The following day started out with some mini cricket, which was followed by some exhibition basketball matches and a netball tournament. Saturday also featured live music by local artists and preliminary rounds of the car fanatic show.

Sunday wrapped up the weekend with the finals of the car fanatic show and even more local live music.

Photo gallery: Hornlee Summer Festival in Knysna

The cricket on Friday was contested by Pirates United and the Knysna Bomb Squad, with the former emerging victorious after a tense and close encounter. The mini cricket was purely for fun for the littlies to enjoy a day out. The basketball was also more friendly than anything else as players from Hornlee-based Rim Dreams Basketball Association took to the court for a few exhibition matches.

Dylan Jansen runs ahead with the ball during one of thebasketball exhibition matches.

The netball, however, was very competitive with five teams taking part in a mixed competition with both men's and women's teams.

Contested by Atlantic Spurs, Knysna Loeries, Knysna Jaguars Women, Knysna Jaguars Men, and the Eden Men's netball team, the competition got underway at 14:00 on Saturday.

Each side played each other side once in a bid to come out on top. Despite being a mixed competition, the final classification of the sides made provision for separate men's and women's winners.

Atlantic Spurs were top in the women's competition followed by the Loeries and finally the Jaguars. In the men's classification it was the Jaguars who came out on top, with the Eden team finishing second.

Zimran Manuel tries to get past Vijay Wildeman on the basketball court.