HOCKEY
National ‘A’ Division Boys’ and Girls’
Semifinals
Update provided by A Red Sports reader from St Andrew’s Junior College who wishes to remain anonymous.
Jieying of VJC (in yellow) in action during an earlier preliminary round game. The VJC girls will now take on ACJC in the semifinals on Monday, 15 May, 3pm, at Delta Stadium. © Shaun Chook
History was created on Friday 11 May 2007 at CCAB when for the first time in the ‘A’ Division history, a three-way penalty shootout was to held to decide who would qualifies for the Boys’ semifinals. This happened after Victoria Junior College (VJC) drew with St Andrew’s Junior College (SAJC) 0-0. Because VJC, SAJC and Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC)all had an equal number of points, the three teams had to go to penalty strokes to decide who would go through.
So after the final whistle between VJC and SAJC on Friday, the three teams took to the penalties. VJC lost the penalty shootouts to both ACJC and SAJC, SAJC lost to ACJC but beat VJC. So ACJC and SAJC are through and VJC are out. (Confused? It’s ok. Read again. Slowly.)
So this leaves the coming Tuesday 15 May 2007 with exciting semifinals for the boys. SAJC will meet Raffles Junior College (RJC) and Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) will meet ACJC. Both games are at Delta stadium, 3pm and 4.30pm respectively. For the girls, the semifinals will be played coming Monday, 14 May 2007. VJC will face ACJC and SAJC will face RJC. Both games at Delta Stadium and at 3pm and 4.30pm respectively.
haha yeah im sure, when they got carded and threw their stick on the pitch, wanting to fight the referee.
kudos to your version of “sportsmanship”!
and btw i’ll be there to see how vjc wins the championship they deserve! sajc doesnt stand a chance against the REAL champions.
OH AND SAINTS JUST LOST THEIR RUGBY SEMIS TO RJ!
awwwwww…
sajc boys! where’s d sportmanship??? u guys r reli lacking in it. some of ur guys trying to act cool during d penalty shootout. u tink u all so good isit? in d end stl get thrashed by rj. might as well dun play d semis. juz pull out. walk over. d score is stl 3-0. rite? idiots!
haha sajc won the respect,but for some not so intellectual rafflesian.of course u would not give us respect cos you dont deserve any from us =) good luck,u will need it.
guess the predictions for the girls semis all went wrong
victoria beat acjc 4-0 to secure a place in the finals. tracy lee scored from a deflection from linruiyin to secure the first goal, before scoring yet another goal through a penalty corner rebound. the third and fourth goal came in the second half both penalty corner conversions, from meixian and lastly from yusheng
saints on the other hand, beat rj 1-0, with an early goal converted from a penalty corner, credits to a top net deflection from hitomi. it was a defensive game for saints after that which rj was not able to break.
24thmay will see victoria up against saints, 3pm delta
saints won the girls’ game, but they didnt win the respect of anyone there.
saints lost the guy’s game, and they too did not win the respect of anyone there.
THE ABSENCE OF SPORTSMANSHIP.
OMG!! THATS TPJC VS VJC. 😀
IT WAS A REAL FIGHT!
NICE ONE PPL.
AJC really pushed hard. top 8 or not i’m still proud…
and I hope Hillary isn’t aiming at my predictions…
Saints won the girls hockey semis!
Well Done Saints!
UP and ON!
3 MORE SEMIS TO GO!
your speculation and predictions are so wrong.
AJC don deserve to be in the top 8.
Judging from how they got whacked by RJC.
RJC will pulverise SAJC.
RJC centre half can easily dribble past the whole SAJC team.
Good luck SAJC.
just now’s analysis was the boys one. now for the girls one
SAJC vs RJC: again. the lines are blurred between the top 4 in terms of strength. but the lines are clearer-but only just-with respect to the Saints and the Gryphons. I’d tip the Saints to push RJC all the way before the latter sneaks through either with a rampage in the second half or a late goal
ACJC-VJC: this one is very hard to call. they are equally strong but ACJC seems like a slightly more defensive team. To the extent I might tip that to go to extra time or ACJC edging it late on
SAJC-RJC: judging from the fact that RJC shipped 10 past a inexperienced AJC, and scored 2 against an equally strong ACSI, SAJC will try to control their damage. They will score a goal or two, but they remain hopelessly outplayed against a formidable RJC
ACSI-ACJC: this is the brotherly match both would have preferred to avoid at this stage. sentimentality aside, ACSI are harder to beat, having scored 7 goals in every other game except RJC and only conceded their first against AJC. ACJC may try to win,but it’s hard to see who’s really winning this tie
Yea! Go Saints!
Come on!
Let’s have TWO hockey finals, ONE soccer final and ONE rugby final this month!
UP and ON!