North Zone B Div Bball: Presbyterian High stop Woodlands Ring in their tracks

By REDintern Joseph Lee

Singapore Basketball Centre, Monday, February 13, 2012 — It was a battle of two traditional powerhouses in the North Zone B Division Basketball Championship. Presbyterian High’s edge in terms of physical size eventually helped them post a 57-34 win over Woodlands Ring Secondary.

Yishun Secondary, North Vista Secondary, Seng Kang Secondary and Canberra Secondary also posted their first wins in the second round on the same day.

The game started off with Woodlands Ring drawing first blood with their well-known 3-pointer from their #9 point guard. But Presbyterian soon answered back at the other end by draining a 3-pointer too. The game looked to be a close one as both teams kept trading baskets, but Presbyterian managed to establish a four-point, 13-9 lead over Woodlands Ring at the end of the first quarter.

In the next two quarters, Presbyterian High pulled away further by extending their lead to 25 points by the end of the third quarter.

In the last quarter, Woodlands Ring gave Presbyterian High a tough fight as their point guard found his touch suddenly. He drained three 3-pointers in the quarter while on the other end Presbyterian could not find a basket to counter those 3-pointers.

But the Woodlands Ring run was still too late, although they managed to edge Presbyterian 15-13 in the quarter, and they still went down to Presbyterian High due to the huge deficit accumulated during the first three quarters.

The Woodlands Ring #9 was a key part of the team, dishing out passes to allow his teammates to drive into the paint. He scored 18 points in the game to contribute more than half of his team’s score. All his 18 points came from six 3-pointers.

Canberra vs Punggol
Canberra Secondary beat Punggol Secondary 71-39 in this game.

Canberra in the game showed why they topped their Round 1 group in this game. It was a walk in the park for Canberra as they handed out a thrashing to Punggol. Punggol could not follow the ball as quickly which resulted in many open shots and lay-ups for Canberra.

Canberra blew past Punggol all the way to lead 60-27 at the end of the third quarter. In the last quarter, Punggol sparked into life and game Canberra a tough fight as they close down most of Canberra’s shots and contested for the rebounds.

However, that burst could only give Canberra the edge in the quarter as they outscored Punggol 12-11, but was not enough to reduce the huge lead that Canberra possessed.

The Canberra #20 was having a crazy game as he scored 20 points to lift his team to the win.

Seng Kang vs Christ Church
Seng Kang Secondary beat Christ Church Secondary 66-50.

Christ Church led at first during the first quarter but Seng Kang came back in the closing minutes to hold a one-point, 14-13 lead at the end of the first.

But that was the closest that Christ Church would come to Seng Kang as the latter slowly but surely extended their lead as the game went on.

Both the #11s had a great game. Yi Jun (Seng Kang #11) scored 18 points while his Christ Church counterpart had 20 points.

North Vista vs Deyi
North Vista Secondary beat Deyi Secondary 59-28.

The game was a walk in the park for North Vista as they did not let Deyi dictate the play in the whole game. North Vista who played out a high intensity game the whole time, restricting their opponents to just a single digit score every quarter. The highest Deyi scored was eight points in the last quarter.

Yishun vs North View
Yishun Secondary thrashed North View Secondary 66-16.

Yishun made a statement to show why were they in the zonal top 4 last year and that they will most likely be in the top 4 this year again. They blew out North View in the first half, allowing their opponents only six points while they scored 46.

After the half time break, North View looked more focused as they managed to prevent Yishun from taking their ball away easily. They managed to hold their own in the third quarter as they matched Yishun 8-8.

Yishun then came back strongly with their bench players, allowing North View to net just one basket during the last quarter.

The Yishun #13 continued to proved his dominance as a power forward as he could drive into the paint and also make shots from beyond the arc. He contributed 21 points to the team.