RUGBY
National ‘C’ Division Championship 2007 Semifinal
St Andrew’s Secondary vs Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road)
Monday, 13 August 2007 at Yishun Junior College
Picture story by Leslie Tan. © Red Sports/soulbreath pictures
Additional pictures from Red Sports reader, Mr Wee Ban Bee, an old boy of ACS. Statistics provided by another Red Sports reader who is a Saints old boy. Thanks, gentleman.
Hendricks Tan of Saints drags an ACS(BR) player along for the ride. © Leslie Tan/Red Sports
Rugby powerhouse St Andrew’s Secondary marched imperiously into the Final of the National ‘C’ Divison Championship with a 61-0 victory over Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road).
By the end of the first half, the Saints were leading 32-0 with six tries and one conversion. Another 29 points in the second half through five tries and two conversions sealed the victory. In their three second round games, the Saints scored an average of 56 points and gave up just three points to Pioneer Secondary in a 62-3 victory.
Saints will now meet Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) in the Championship Final scheduled for Monday, 20 August, 4.30pm at Yio Chu Kang Stadium.
A Saint takes a tackle full-on. © Wee Ban Bee
An ACS(BR) player almost gets the ball at a line-out. © Wee Ban Bee
Jonathan Loo of St Andrew’s kicks the ball upfield. © Wee Ban Bee
A Saint player rides the tackle of three ACS(BR) players. © Wee Ban Bee
A triple-decker sandwich. Jonathan Loo of St Andrew’s somehow finds himself in the middle of two ACS(BR) players. © Wee Ban Bee
Nicholas Yau of St Andrew’s breaks free with the ball. © Wee Ban Bee
An ACS(BR) player tries to break through a tackle. © Wee Ban Bee
An ACS(BR) player grimaces as he takes a tackle. © Wee Ban Bee
An ACS(BR) player grabs the ball at a line-out. © Wee Ban Bee
Editor’s note: If you can provide me the names of all the players who scored the tries and the conversions, I will post it. If you recognise yourself or your teammates in the pictures, let me know the names. Please leave all names and updates in the COMMENTS section, not the chat box. Thanks. More action shots in the Picture Gallery.
guess what?!!!,..just realised that Saints din win any A, B and C divs this year…. but they got a grand slam for primary school rugby.
the very first pic which shows the the sas rugby player dragging the acs boy his name is called hendricks tan……
yea man…
lets see hu turns out champs..
hahaha adults smmre.wnt to cme n fight.hahhaaha.nvm la cheers anw
It doesn’t matter what anyone predicts. We’ll just see who wins on the day itself.
huh?lols tt quite funny…i think ahh…d saints hu came to vid shoot was a kid?ok nvm peace wit tt…
okay. understand coz of security reasons. maybe there’s really some misunderstanding. anyway, the SA guys that went to ACSi were adults, not students. =)
Security guards in ACSi follow a strict rule of not letting any other school people in as last time 1 ACSbr boy came to the school to fight so u cant blame us for chasing u guys away but u have to understand for these precautions.
To saint1862: Pls do not get this wrong i checked with all the parents and every1 there that we did not call the police. We dont want any bad blood between us both schools. And only Acs (Br) were videoing u as my frens are in the act of it.
To yugadino:
IF ACS will win, then congrats.
but just to let you and other ACSian know…
ACSi and ACSbr video down a match played by SA C-div on Friday 20 July to record their opponents, this is a normal and acceptable practice. However, when we record down a match played by ACSi at ACSi campus, you guys got the security guard to chase our people out, then when we left and went to the HDB block nearby to video, permission were taken from the residents and the residents allow us to video from their corridors and they even offered refreshment, BUT ACSi resort to calling the police. (what’s the point? you can record our’s at our campus, but we can’t record your’s at your campus?) Thank God, in the end, the police were understanding and didn’t chase them away and the residents even had to clarify with the police. Why must turn things to sour? no grace? Aren’t you a christian mission school just like S.A.?
***i’m saying this to let everyone know, not for the purpose of stirring up any controversy***
***permission given by Les for this comment***
***Please think twice if you want to reply UNPLEASANT or NASTY comments***
To wah lau eh
okay, but the astro turf at Raffles is not designed primarily for Rugby, there are many astro turf in singapore, but they are mainly designed for soccer and hockey though other sports may be played on it, like those at ACSi are for soccer. those astro turfs have thinner, shorter and wider ‘leaves’, while the ones at SA is gonna have thicker, longer and narrower ‘leaves’ designed mainly for Rugby.
oh…
does any one know d score for d AC(br)versus raffles 3rd/4th placin game?