The ouma in the blue and white rugby jersey sums it up: "Yassus, ek kan nie meer nie (Geez, I can't take it any more)."
With only a few seconds of normal time left, a Paarl Boys' High player lines up to take a conversion. Little boys frown and peer across the field. Nervous hands clamp around sticks of droe wors. A crowd of 25 000 at the Faure Street stadium holds its collective breath as another chapter of one of rugby's greatest rivalries concludes.
Doef. The oval ball tracks across the cloudy sky - it's over the bar!
Score's now 16-15 and the Boys' High team is only a point behind!
But there's the final whistle!
Paarl Gimnasium wins.
A wave of uniforms sweeps across the field, engulfing the muddy heroes. Cheerleaders hug each other, mothers and fathers too. A man with a jaw the size of a bread-bin kicks a beer can out of his way as he stomps off.
So ends another edition of the Paarl Boys' High vs Paarl Gimnasium derby. Widely considered to be South Africa's premier school sport rivalry, it has been played since 1915.
An entire town is decked out in school colours. Blues, white, maroon, orange, and green deck the lamp-posts, the traffic lights, the trees along the main road; posters hang on buildings and fences.
Even the doughnuts at the Engen garage are iced in school colours.
For one day a year, Paarl is divided between north and south, "Gimmies vs Boishaai", a cultural event as important as church. It's the only time of the year when sensible, grown adults stand around talking with faces covered in brightly coloured paint.
It's also a fitting finale to several days of hype and festivity in this Cape winelands village. Several other matches feature during the preceding week, including the "Goffels and the Hommels" (the G and H teams) with their distinctive, looser style of play.
But this year's bragging rights go to "Gimmies", worthy victors in Saturday's showdown.
The ouma in the Boys' High jersey says: "Daar's altyd volgende jaar (There's always next year)," grins and walks off.
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