Hillgrove crash out of B Division West Zone volleyball
Contributed by reader DN
Clementi Town Secondary, February 1-5, 2010 – Hillgrove Secondary dreams of qualifying for the national championship were crushed after a shock defeat 0-2 by Hua Yi Secondary.
It was clearly a tough fight during the first set but Hua Yi managed to counter Hillgrove’s attack and surprised Hillgrove with a powerful performance by Andy (Hua Yi #7) in the first set.
In the second set, Hillgrove gave up the fight and just seem to let Hua Yi triumph over them.
Everyone was shocked that Hillgrove lost to Hua Yi because Hillgrove was the only team to take a set off the strong Bukit Panjang Government High team.
As a result of this game, the fate of Clementi Town depended on Hillgrove beating Hwa Chong Institution next. However, Hillgrove ended up losing 0-2 and Clementi Town failed to make it through.
HCI and Bukit Panjang qualified for the second round.
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Why is it a shocked? Huayi No 7 is one of the best spiker in the West zone. It is not surprising at all that they beat Hillgrove. Hillgrove has never been a strong team in West Zone. The only time they made it to zonal top 4 was when they DSA the whole of Keming Pri team at their first batch. After which they have never made it to the zonal top 4. Huayi on the other hand has the talented no 7, together with the other good spiker(dunno his number), has been working very hard. They gave both BP and HCI a scare in the second set which they led by quite a few points. In fact, they should have beaten HCI if only their coach is present. They played without a coach against HCI and if I am not wrong, their second set was really close.
Hopefully Huayi no 7 goes on to play in the A div. Surely he will be the star to watch out for. Imagine him almost single handedly crushed Hillgrove years of training. It is a pity that his team is incomplete, otherwise they will definately be a contenter for the West zone title.
I agree with ACE about the skills/talents of the 2 middle spikers of Huayi, they are very good especially with long rallies. Huayi’s defence is good and add the two spikers into the equation thats a tough team to handle. Their playing style is very similar to Victoria’s i think, cus both schools rely mainly on their 2 middle spikers to alternate shots. Its a very special tactic, and do VS and HY have the same coach?
The “other” spiker of Hyss is Terence tan, number 18
Ya. Same coach, the temasek poly.
huayi number7 is andy.
funny that everyone credits oliver, andy etc. but no one credits their setters. make them look good yet dont get credit. kinda unfair to setters in inter schools
not the whole of keming pri dsa into hillgrove.
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lol hillgrove is not even strong. i dont understand why there’s such a big fuss about them losing.