Republic Polytechnic, Wednesday, March 9, 2011 — It all came down to a battle of mind games.
Bukit Merah Secondary and Victoria School, last year’s National B Division Floorball finalists, were locked in a 6-6 tie at the end of regulation time in this year’s semi-finals, and required the lottery of penalty shootouts to decide their fates.
Victoria School’s goalkeeper emerged the hero of the day by saving four of Bukit Merah’s five taken penalties to help his team march into the final for the third consecutive time.
Victoria’s Riku had opened the scoring for his team with a deft fake move and they went on to win the penalty shootout 2-1.
Victoria will next take on Catholic High in the final at Republic Polytechnic at 4pm on March 11, Friday.
Catholic High beat Northland 3-2 in the other semi-final.
Great display of skills and fighting spirit from both teams ! Yeah VS showed an impressive performance leading 6-2 at one stage. But the Merahans were amazing, coming back from 6-2 to 6-6 against and they almost won the game but were unlucky to hit the bar. In my opinion, BMS should have won the game and the tournament but they were too unlucky and simply wasted too many chances.
Very simple. First period 2-2. Second Period 4-2 for VS and last 2-0 to BMS. So leading is not suprising.
4-0 lead (four straight goals for VS) followed by 4-0 (four straight goals for BMS). Simple.
BMS hit the bar too.
how old is riku? is he in sec 3 or sec 4?
Wow! VS was leading 6-2 at one stage?
Ian, can you change your title – there is no ‘secondary’ in Victoria. Just ‘Victoria School’. Thanks!
Title changed, thanks.