Picture Story by Vanessa Lim/Red Sports
CCAB, Tuesday, May 5, 2009 – Anglo-Chinese Junior College beat Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) 17-0 to advance to the final of the A Division Rugby Championships against Raffles Institution.
RI beat St Andrew’s Junior College 16-0 in the other semi-final.
The final is scheduled for Friday, May 22, 2009 at the Home Team Academy. Timing unknown.
SAJC will play ACS(I) for 3rd/4th placing next Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 4:45pm at CCAB.
“I’m taking you down!” Szu Ker tackles an ACS(I) player. (Photo 1 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Song Heng pushing through as two ACS(I) struggle to bring him down. (Photo 2 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Andrew Ong goes in to tackle an ACS(I) player. (Photo 3 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Drew Lexmond catches the ball. (Photo 4 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Edmond of ACJC trying to stop an ACS(I) player by pulling his shirt. (Photo 5 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Edmound and a teammate tries to bring down this ACS(I) player. (Photo 6 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Daniel Looi and Alexander Prentice of ACJC trying to push through the ACS(I) defenders. (Photo 7 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
An ACS(I) player pushing his way past while Jack of ACJC tries to take him down. (Photo 8 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
“Protect the ball.” (Photo 9 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
An ACS(I) player running on, despite Daniel Looi stuck to his leg. (Photo 10 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
“There goes the ball.” (Photo 11 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Two ACS(I) players trying to take Alexander Prentice of ACJC down. (Photo 12 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
“Quick! Grab the ball!” (Photo 13 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Smiles all round as ACJC advance to the final. (Photo 14 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
ACS(I) players hang their head in despair after losing a spot in the final. (Photo 15 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Two Saints players taking down Marcus Koe. (Photo 16 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Saints players close in on Mohd Saifuludin. (Photo 17 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Two Raffles players taking down Naz. (Photo 18 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Shaun Ng grabs on from the back in hopes of bringing down the Raffles player. (Photo 19 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
The Saints player is unable to stop Raffles Institution’s Mohd Saifuludin. (Photo 20 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Dong Chan holds out his arm to get ready for an oncoming Saints player. (Photo 21 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
First try scored by Avinash Raju of Raffles institution. (Photo 22 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Two Raffles players jump on Saints captain Daniel Lum to stop him from reaching the try line. (Photo 23 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
A Saints player pushing through the Raffles defense. (Photo 24 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
A Raffles player injures his arm during the first half of the game. (Photo 25 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
“Down you go.” (Photo 26 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Raffles congratulate each other for the job well done. (Photo 27 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
The pain of losing shows on the Saints players. Despite the loss, Saints supporters still cheered them on. (Photo 28 © Vanessa Lim/Red Sports)
Editor’s note: If you recognise yourself or your team mates in any of the photos, feel free to leave the names behind in the comments section and we will update the captions accordingly. Names of the players mentioned in the article will also be very much appreciated. Thanks!
ACS IND players
photo 3 red boots is Tan Chuanxi
photos 5 and 6 is Cavan Ho
Photo 8 Douglas Wong
Photo 10 Tan Chuanxi
Photo 12 Kenny Chua(standing) and Tan Chuanxi(making the tackle)
Photo 13 Eric Ong
whoots!
photo 4: Drew Lexmond
For Saints,
Photo 16 – Jegathasan (scrum cap), Jeremy Tan
Photo 18 – Naz
Photo 19 – Shaun Ng
Photo 22 – Sirhan
Photo 23 – Daniel Lum (Captain)
Photo 26 – Edwin Chia
anw its MOHD SAIFULUDIN. thanks
lol you joke… lose already not happy pls dun complain
hey why isn’t the finals held at the padang?
RI players
photo 16 -Marcus Koe
photo 17 -Muhd Saifuldin
photo 19 -Dong Chan
photo 20 -Muhd Saifuldin
photo 22 -Avinash Raju
photo 26 -Shannon Sin
photo 27 -Muhd Saifuldin (#9), Christopher Fang
acjc player
in photo 1 is szu ker,
in photo 2 is song heng,
in photo 3 is andrew ong,
in photo 5 and 6 is edmund,
in photo 7 is daniel looi and alexander prentice,
in photo 8 is jack,
in photo 10 is daniel looi
and in photo 12 is alexander prentice
Hi i am who i am,
According to the Singapore Rugby website, the score for the game between RI and Saints was 16-0, so I have edited the post to reflect the correct score.
hi, juz here to inform u guyz that the score btwn ri and saints is 19-0, it came out in the lian he zao bao yesterday
just one note, horrible refereeing in the acsi – acjc match, ever heard of something called DIVING IN THE RUCK?