Story by REDintern Thamim. Photos by Jerald Ang/Red Sports.
Brenda Lim (#2) of Raffles was the top scorer with 9 goals in the game. (Photo 1 © Jerald Ang/Red Sports)
OCBC Aquatic Centre, Thursday, April 7, 2016 —Defending champions Raffles Institution (RI) beat Saint Andrew’s Junior College (SAJC) 19-2 to take home their eighth straight National A Division Water Polo Championship title.
Brenda Lim (RI #2) was the top scorer of the game with nine goals, while Roshini (SAJC #2) scored both goals for SAJC.
SAJC played an aggressive defense from the start which helped them to intercept quite a few of RI’s passes. However, RI were quick to adjust and were also adept in intercepting SAJC passes.
RI played long passes to counter SAJC, and coupled with their shooting accuracy, they built a 5-0 lead.
RI made it difficult for SAJC to find an opening to score. While SAJC tired to shoot quite a few times, RI blocked many of their attempts.
SAJC efforts finally saw them earn a penalty and Roshini (SAJC #2) scored their opening goal. By the end of the first quarter, RI had a commanding 8-1.
In the second quarter, SAJC saw their attempts hit the posts or saved by RI goalkeeper, Samantha Ang (#1). In the meantime, RI poured in another five goals to build a 13-1 lead at halftime.
Both teams cancelled each other out for the first five minutes of the third quarter as the score remained unchanged.
RI eventually changed up their tactics and got through to score two goals. A momentary lapse in the RI defense saw Roshini (SAJC #2) score with 10 seconds left to the quarter for a 15-2 lead.
Another four RI goals in the final period sealed the 20-2 win and championship title.
RI captain, Abielle Yeo (#7) said, “Today’s game is definitely an improvement from our preliminaries round game against Saints. They play a different tactic from what we were used to but through training we learnt to adapt to their new tactic. I am very happy and very proud of team because we worked really hard to get to where we are today.”
Score by Quarter
SAJC vs RI
1st Q: 8-1
2nd Q: 5-0 (13-1)
3rd Q: 2-1 (15-2)
4th Q: 5-0 (20-2)
Scorers
RI
Brenda Lim (#2) – 9 goals
Andrea Ong (#8) – 5 goals
Abielle Yeo (#7) – 3 goals
Beatrice Low (#4) – 1 goal
Tricia Tan (#3) – 1 goal
Emily Lua (#11) – 1 goal
SAJC
Roshini (#2) – 2 goals
RI Roster
Samantha Ang (#1), Brenda Lim (#2), Tricia Tan (#3), Beatrice Low (#4), Andrea Low (#5), Ng Yu Qin (#6), Abielle Yeo (#7), Andrea Ong (#8), Valerie Ho (#9), Alicia Goh (#10), Emily Lua (#11), Ashley Teo (#12), Yong Wen Min (#13)
SAJC Roster
Seow Chien (#1), Roshini (#2), Moriah (#3), Virnis (#4), Andrea (#5), Naomi (#6), Valarie (#7), Yi En (#8)
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SAJC roster should be
Seow Chien (#1) and Valarie Ting (#7) instead, thank you
Thank you for pointing out the error. The article has been edited accordingly.
Hi Redsports, sorry for the inconvenience, but our roster is
1 Samantha Ang
2 Brenda Lim
3 Tricia Tan
4 Beatrice Low
5 Andrea Low
6 Ng Yu Qin
7 Abielle Yeo
8 Andrea Ong
9 Valerie Ho
10 Alicia Goh
11 Emily Lua
12 Ashley Teo
13 Yong Wen Min
In addition, the score was 20-2 at the end of the game. Thank you so much for going down to cover the game.
hi, thank you for pointing out the errors. The article has been edited accordingly. As for the score, I actually counted 19 goals. We also initially wrote 20-2, however, a lot of people corrected us saying that it was 19-2. Any reason for the discrepancy?
Hi, I think after 1 of the goals the scoreboard did not change. Here’s the match video for reference.
2016 A girls Final RI vs SAJC
http://youtu.be/lERXnZWkfmE
Thank you so much!
(Sorry for the inconvenience)
Hello! Thank you for the video reference. The article has been changed accordingly 🙂