Roundup of NUS-Great Eastern Water Polo Challenge

By Les Tan/Red Sports

NUS Sports and Recreation Centre, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 – The National University of Singapore and Ngee Ann Polytechnic are through to the final of the NUS-Great Eastern Water Polo Challenge.

NUS beat Nanyang Polytechnic 15-7 last night while in the other semi-final game, NP edged the Nanyang Technological University 10-8.

NUS are unbeaten so far in the tournament and have outscored their opponents by a collective score of 55-19.

They scored comfortable wins over SIM (5-0), SMU (22-6) and NTU (13-6).

NP too are unbeaten thus far. They beat NYP (17-5), SP (16-1) and RP (16-5) before seeing off the NTU challenge in the semi-final.

NP players Timothy Tay and Thaddeus Tock have 12 goals in the tournament so far, six goals off Andy Ou of NYP who leads the goal scoring charts in the race for the Golden Hand award.

Lin Diyan of NUS leads his team’s scoring with 11 goals.

The final between NUS and NP is scheduled for Friday, January 23rd, 2009 at 4.30pm at the NUS Sports and Recreation swimming pool.

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Update provided by Byron Teo

NUS Sports and Recreation Centre, Tuesday, January 13, 2009 – The National University of Singapore water polo team got off to a good start with a 22-6 thrashing of the Singapore Management University in the NUS-Great Eastern Water Polo Challenge.

In other games, Republic Polytechnic beat Singapore Polytechnic (21-3) while Nanyang Polytechnic also registered a huge win over Ngee Ann Polytechnic (17-5).

Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore Institute of Management played out a 10-10 draw.

The tournament is held at the SRC Swimming Pool, NUS, from the 13th to 23rd of January 2009. To find out more about the tournament and the fixtures, please visit their facebook group here.

Group A
NUS
NTU
SMU
SIM

Group B
RP
NP
NYP
SP

Fixtures (all games at NUS Sports and Recreation Centre)
Jan 13th, Tuesday
1700-1800 NUS 22 SMU 6
1800-1900 RP 21 SP 3
1900-2000 NTU 10 SIM 10
2000-2100 NP 17 NYP 5

Jan 15th, Thursday
1700-1800 NUS 13 NTU 6
1800-1900 NP 16 SP 1
1900-2000 SIM 13 SMU 9
2000-2100 NYP 23 RP 4

Jan 17th, Saturday
1700-1800 NUS 5 SIM 0
1800-1900 NYP 17 SP 3
1900-2000 NTU 9 SMU 8
2000-2100 NP 16 RP 5

Semi-Finals
Jan 20th, Tuesday
SMU 17 SP 3
SIM 25 RP 0
NUS 15 NYP 7
NP 10 NTU 8

Jan 22nd, Thursday
1500-1630 RP vs SP (7th/8th playoff)
1630-1800 SIM vs SMU (5th/6th playoff)

Final
Jan 23rd, Friday
1500-1630 NYP vs NTU 3rd/4th playoff
1630-1800 NUS vs NP (final)