Defence was the order of the day for Home United Basketball Club, and that was a key factor in their 55-42 win over Eng Tat Hornets in the National Basketball League Division One Final.
Home United are the only unbeaten team with three wins, one of them an 85-58 trouncing of SAFSA, the team which beat them to the title last season. Chong Ghee have lost all their matches.
Unity Secondary and Anglican High became the first teams to advance to the Boys' national semi-finals of the Schools Basketball Championships when they notched their second consecutive quarter-final win in Group X.
North Vista, led by Larry Liew's 22 points, easily beat Raffles Institution 77-48, while Zhou Zhen Qiang scored 27 points for Yishun as they overcame Dunman Secondary 71-64.
Tan Yuan Bin, the Yishun Secondary School player who lashed out at Unity Secondary's Wong Keng Yang during a boys' National B Division basketball game on April 6th, has been suspended for the remainder of the basketball championship.
Victoria School's Calvin Quek broke his school's C Division record en route to winning the boys' C Division 400 metres final in 53.62 seconds at the 51st National Schools Track and Field Championships.
Inez Leong, Goh Wei Ning and Jannah Wong left the Schools Track and Field championships with new championship records in the girls' A, B Division 100 metres and C Division 80 metres hurdles races, but only Wei Ning finished without a gold medal.
Victoria School’s Sean Toh became the first athlete to better the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) benchmark set by the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) when he won the Boys’ B Division 110 metres hurdles in 13.98 seconds at the 51st National Schools Track And Field Championships.