Story by REDintern Kelly Kuo
(Photo © Kelly Kuo/Red Sports)
Eight more teams remain in the game after just one group stage round in the B Division Girls Softball Championship. This upcoming second group stage is where the big four semi-finalists for this year will be determined.
So far, the four winners for Groups A, B, C and D are Tanjong Katong Girls’ School, Nanyang Girls’ High, Fajar Secondary and Nan Hua High respectively.
Tanjong Katong swept past their less illustrious opponents easily in the first round, with definitive margins of no less than eight.
Nanyang Girls’ finished off New Town and Dunman High clinically, but had some difficulty scoring against Crescent Girls' School. They did, however, have a solid defence and came away 4-0 winners to top the group.
Fajar Secondary fought hard against Raffles Girls' School for the top spot in the last matchup of the group. With the help of a poor first inning performance by the Raffles’ pitcher and tight defending by the Fajar fielders, Fajar eventually took the deciding game 8-6.
Nan Hua High had a relatively smooth round, except for their matchup against Methodist Girls’ School. It was a very close fight but Nan Hua managed to come up tops, beating MGS by just one run.
Four other second placed schools – Orchid Park Secondary, Crescent Girls’, RGS and Methodist Girls’ School – have also qualified for the second round.
Round Two will kick off this Tuesday, 16th February, with Fajar, Nan Hua, Orchid Park and Crescent Girls’ placed in Group X. Tanjong Katong Girls’, Nanyang Girls’, RGS and MGS are placed in a tougher Group Y lineup.
The winner of Group Y will face the first runner up of Group X and vice versa in the semi-finals on 3rd March.
Marist and RI won. They’ll be playing in the finals on wednesday, 11th march while Cat high and monfort will be playing for 3rd and 4th on the 10th.
Hello Guys,
Maris Stella will play Catholic High in the Semi-Finals
While RI play Montfort in the Semi-Finals on Friday 06/03
Hello,
2/3 Softball Result
RI 4-3 Hwa Chong
Catholic High 4-3 Pei Cai
Maris Stella 11-10 ACS(I)
Montfort 7-6 Bedok North
Maris and Montfort are into the semis finals with 1 game left to play. While RI and Hwa chong are with 1 win and 1 lose
HwaChong beat peicai 4-3 on 27th February
Cat High won RI 2-0 on 27th Feb at Cat high.
Yes, I’m very sorry, it should be MGS instead.
I thought Crescent Girls’ beat Nanhua? hmmmm, are your information reliable? Crescent has so far been playing very well against every school.
Hwachong will be playing raffles at raffles this coming monday at 2.30. Cat High will be playing Pei Cai, not sure about venue though.
What ben said is true.
Sorry there was a reshuffling in grouping. HwaChong now grouped with Raffles Pei Cai Cat High and the other group is Maris Stella ACSI Bedok North and Montfort
Crescent wins Orchid park 15-3 and Nan Hua High 16-3 in second round. Crescent grouped with Nan Hua, Orchid Park and Fajar. Crescent did not play Nan Hua in first round. The other second round group consists of Raffles Girls, Methodist Girls, Nanyang Girls and CHIJ if i’m not wrong.
Boys B Division: HwaChong, Maris Stella, Catholic High and Montfort in one group, Raffles Instituition, Pei Cai Sec, Bedok North and ACSI in the other group. HwaChong playing Montfort at HwaChong on Friday 27th February, Cat High playing Maris Stella On wednesday 25th February, followed by HwaChong against Maris Stella at Kallang Pitch on 2nd March and finally Catholic High and Hwachong at Catholic High on 4th march.
softball doesnt receive as much attention as the other sports..
Very nice softball stock pic, Kelly.
Do you have the fixtures for the second round?
We’ll go and support. : )