A shot that was ruled in by an SJI linesman was overruled by the umpire, costing Maris Stella High a place in the last eight of the C Division Badminton Championship.
The Singapore Sports Council will launch a Junior Technical Officiating programme to expand the supply of young officials. This programme is an alternate pathway for those who want to be part of the sports industry but who aren't athletes or coaches.
The Ministry of Education today announced eight new Junior Sports Academies to be set up in 2009. These academies are centralised efforts to identify and train sporting talent, and will be housed at various schools.
Montfort Secondary beat Singapore Sports School 4-1 to capture the C Division Boys North Zone Badminton Championship title. Maris Stella High and Compassvale round up the top four in the North Zone and they now proceed to the National Championship.
The Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) fielded national shuttlers Ronald Susilo and Kendrick Lee but still fell 2-3 to the National University of Singapore in a Group A match of the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) Badminton Championship.
The Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) Games are underway and the polytechnics, universities and the technical institutes are locking horns in sporting combat.
NTU's doubles pairs rose to the occasion to see off Temasek Polytechnic 3-1 in the 2008 Cheers Post Secondary Team Challenge's final.
The inaugural Cheers Post-Secondary Team Challenge gives junior colleges a new competition to take part in apart from the inter-school competition.