Update by Koh Yizhe/Red Sports. Photos by Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports.
Sports School’s Goal Keeper Elle Ng attempts to prevent a pass to St. Nicholas Girls’ Goal Shooter Clara Lee in Sports School’s comfortable 35-19 win. Sports School are the defending champions and captain Natalie Koh feels “quite confident to retain the title with this team”. (Photo 1 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Republic Polytechnic, Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - North Zone netball powerhouses, Singapore Sports School, Canberra Secondary and North Vista Secondary, registered wins over their respective opponents in the second round of the North Zone B Division Netball Championship.
Defending zone champions Singapore Sports School recorded a comfortable 35-19 victory over CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls’ to maintain their perfect record in Group Y.
"Both teams played equally well and fought hard," said Natalie Koh, Singapore Sports School captain. "They (St. Nicholas Girls’) put up a strong defense so I am happy that my team was able to overcome them."
"The third quarter was crucial as they tried to fight back against us, but our girls managed to pull the win off eventually.”
Another school with a perfect record is Canberra Secondary. They stormed past Marsiling Secondary 38-14 and are now joint-leaders of Group Y together with Singapore Sports School.
Both teams will face off in the final group match of the second round to decide who will finish top of Group Y.
In the other group game, St. Joseph’s Convent prevented Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary from scoring in the entire first quarter to easily beat them 36-13. St. Joseph’s Convent led 11-0 after the first quarter and never trailed from then on.
Over in Group X, Seng Kang Secondary beat Evergreen Secondary 29-16 to keep alive hopes of qualifying for the next round while Yio Chu Kang Secondary defeated Bowen Secondary to even up their win-loss record at 2-2.
The pick of the afternoon's matches was between North Vista Secondary and Anderson Secondary with both teams having identical unbeaten records in the second round. It was a close match between the schools but favourites North Vista managed to edge their opponents 22-17.
After winning all their matches, North Vista are through to the semi-finals while Seng Kang, Yio Chu Kang and Anderson will go into the final day hoping for positive results. Yio Chu Kang will have to beat Anderson to have any chance of progressing while Seng Kang will try to defy the odds against North Vista.
The final matches of the second round will be held at Republic Polytechnic, starting from 1300hrs on Friday, February 26.
North Vista’s Goal Shooter about to take a shot. The Group X leaders overcame their closest challengers, Anderson, 22-17. (Photo 2 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Canberra Secondary had it easy against Marsiling Secondary, winning 38-14. Just like Sports School, they have a perfect round in Group Y. (Photo 3 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Marsiling’s Centre goes down in a heap of pain midway through the second quarter. (Photo 4 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Shelby Koh of Sports Schools looks for a player to pass to. Sports School are undefeated in the second round and will face Canberra Secondary in the final group game to decide the Group Y winners. (Photo 5 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
CHIJ St. Joseph’s Convent’s Wing Defense reaches for a pass. CHIJ SJC had a comfortable 36-13 win over Ahmad Ibrahim. (Photo 6 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
An Evergreen player grabs a pass. Evergreen were unable to hold off Seng Kang and fell 29-16. (Photo 6 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
Yio Chu Kang kept alive hopes of making it to the semi-finals with a 27-13 victory over Bowen. (Photo 7 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
More photos in the gallery.
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Hi,
realise that there issit covers for the East Zone?
Canberra and Sports school are joint-leaders.
Canberra won the matches against SJC and ST nics.
match against Marsiling was 38 – 14 .
Photo 1 : St Nics GS Clara Lee
Thanks for the name updates!
Yupp Canberra beat St. Nics 32-20 in their first match of the second round.
Canberra won both St. Nics and Marsiling.
For canberra against marsiling the score’s 38:14 🙂
Photo 1 – Sports School GK – Elle Ng
Photo 5 – Sports School WD – Shelby Koh
@Tan
Didn’t they? I might have seen the results wrongly. The score is 38-14.
Huh? Canberra and Sports school are joint-leaders? Means Canberra won St nics? Canberra against Marsiling is 27-13 or 38-14?