Contributed by reader who is a St Andrew’s old boy (SaintZ)
St Andrew’s Village, Thursday, April 17, 2008 – St Andrew’s Junior School beat Anglo-Chinese School (Primary) 21-0 last week to capture the National Rugby U-13 Championship title.
The top four schools from each zone qualified for the National Championship and ACS(Pri), Damai, Qifa and the Saints topped their respective groups during the round-robin qualifying round.
In the quarter-finals, the ACSians had a game among themselves, with ACS(Jr) taking on ACS(Pri), with the latter winning the game. Damai beat West View, ChongZheng beat Qifa and Saints beat Pei Tong, a rather strong rival for the last few years.
In the semi-finals, both ACS(Pri) and Saints easily beat their rivals Damai and ChongZheng respectively with identical scorelines of 14-0. This set the stage for Saints to meet their traditional rivals ACS. In the last few years, the ACS school have started to make their presence felt at the finals of the National Under-13 Championships.
The final started with the blue-and-white striped Saints performing their traditional and original Saints battle cry against the blue-and-yellow striped ACS(Pri). While the battle cry was performed, the ACS(Pri) ruggers walked away with their backs facing the Saints.
Saints eventually punished ACS(Pri) 21-0 to emerge as the National U-13 champion.
Now, we shall wait and see how many of these 12-year-old ruggers will be poached by rival schools.
National Under-13 Championship Groups:
Group A
Chongzheng
ACS(Pri)
Si Ling
Zhenghua
Group B
Sembawang
Damai
Pei Tong
Concord
Group C
Qifa
Greenwood
Gongshang
ACS(Jnr)
Group D
St Andrew’s
Westview
Marsiling
Casuarina
hey i am part of this winning team yea man 21-0 good times good times!!
tell you what, siantz will win 2009 c division
lifes are in making here..
hearts are in the waking here..
Once a saints always a saints..
Up and On!
sorry. you’re not the first, St Andrew’s and Raffles did that countless times in the 1970s and even before the 1970s. =P
what did I say?
Thank you Saints!!! ACS(i) 1st Secondary school to win A Div rugby. You can’t touch this!
RW, well said
Saintz, controversial articles attract controversial replies.
If the article was wriitten strictly for SA consumption (which I believe it originally was), it will attract no attention at all from outsiders but when when it is posted hereu, be prepared for comments.
to Nick: i don’t think Les encourages the putting down of other school(s) in this web. You better watch it. And mind you, our A-Division is already in the final, and ACJC lost third year in a row and is also their 3rd year in a row not reaching the final.
to e other who r against SA: And mind you, when any AC School win, you guys say AC won, but do you ever realise at each division you guys send at least 2 schools? for the U11 and U13, ACS Pri and Jnr, U14 & U17, ACS(BR), ACS(ind), ACS(int) & finally U20, ACS(ind), ACJC.
If you really really really die die want fairness, tell ACJC and ACS(ind) also to come under the MOE CCA rules for government and government aided schools, just like every other schools in every other competition other than rugby only. And also why not juz send a combined ACS team at each competition?
The year that ACS(i) have year 5 in their rugby team, it was not Saints that cry foul, it was many other schools… do u noe why? coz ACS(i)’s sports teams that were sent into competition for the B-Division were mainly year 5s with handful of year 3s and 4s, this was also reported in the Straits Times. While Saints have Sec 5, they only make up a small small portion, the other way round from ACS(i).
simply undescribable egocentricness piled up all over you, let me ask you a question, do you ever think that we would want to poach your boys, agreeing with someone who had earlier said if you cant even retain the boys despite 6 years of being with them, it speaks about the school, and saints is being known many years especially in the B division for playing normal academic and normal technical students, winning without glory, unscrapulous. looking at the acs primary boys who were ALL 12 year old boys, battling against so many 13 year olds out there, they have accomplished a lot. at least they show some dignity there, also you were palying at your home ground with all the support, ACs is much richer that that of saints, hosting it at our field would be a good idea, and anyway we turned away when looking at your so called haka was mainly cos we put our faith in GOD not wasting our time to do a battle cry just to scare yourself.
so once again to all the saints and the person who wrote this who is obviously a saint, watch ACS own you guys in everything that comes our way, after the A division and B division not even being able to reach the finals, and the C division would definitely lose out. Primary school rugby no big deal, ACS found it no big a deal, so well done ACS Primary and thumbs down to all the saints.