Cambridge made better use of their opportunities to edge Westering 18-13 in a hard-fought schools rugby encounter in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
The East London school has proved a tough nut for Westering to crack in recent years but this time the home team would have fancied their chances, coming into the fixture unbeaten in their schools rugby league programme.
But spurned chances, most notably at two attacking firsthalf lineouts, cost them in a match that could have gone their way had they been more clinical.
It took all of 25 minutes before Westering got the first points of the match on the board via a penalty from the boot of live-wire flyhalf Baphelele Pango.
Opposition flyhalf Hlomla Ngumbela soon levelled, before flank Hlone Sodlula took advantage of numbers down the left flank for Cambridge to score the opening try of the match in the corner and on the stroke of halftime.
Westering were back in the lead shortly after the restart as Pango skipped through the Cambridge defence and scored under the poles. He converted his own try for the home side to lead 10-8.
But the visitors would not relent and two further tries by No 8 Lelona Badi and centre Phiwo Xati saw Cambridge shift into an eight-point lead.
Westering did pull a penalty back through Pango with five minutes to play but Cambridge did enough to close out the game as winners.
Kingswood v Nico Malan
Kingswood controlled the pattern of play for most of the match to defeat Nico Malan 3324 in Grahamstown on Saturday.
Creating early pressure, Kingswod were first to score, through Abo Klaas.
The visitors hit back and were eventually rewarded with a penalty to make it 7-3.
Kingswood scored a second try soon afterwards and held onto their lead under pressure.
In the second half, Kingswood scored three more tries.
Although Nico Malan crossed for a try of their own, the game seemed done and dusted when Kingswood led 33-10 with seven minutes left.
Nico Malan then showed great fight to cross for two converted tries, but it was too little, too late for the boys from Humansdorp.