POSB RedSportsXI (boys) – Vote your best 2009 C Division hockey players
With the C Division Hockey Championship over, I'm sure you've seen some good players. So who are they? And who would make a dream starting 11?
With the C Division Hockey Championship over, I'm sure you've seen some good players. So who are they? And who would make a dream starting 11?
The Singapore national hockey team is doing well at the 47th Tun Abdul Razak Cup and have progressed to the Division 2 Final.
Backed by supporters over a hundred strong, Victoria School rose to the occasion and beat Teck Whye Secondary School 2-1, bringing back the C Division Boys Hockey title after a 17-year drought.
CHIJ St. Theresa's Convent beat Seng Kang Secondary 2-1 on penalties to bring home the girls' C Division Hockey Championship title. The game finished 0-0 after extra-time.
Victoria School edged out Jurong West Secondary School 3-2 on penalties for a place in final of the C Division Boys' Hockey Championship. The score stood 0-0 after extra-time.
On an evening when the Dutch were expected to lift their game to match that of their opponents, things didn't work out for them. Instead it was the industrious Germans who was full of running, and emerged victorious to add to their collection of four consecutive titles in 1982, 1985, 1989 and 1993.
The hosts got off to a good start through a 28th minute penalty corner after Johnson Sivalingam was found unmarked in the ‘D’ and flicked the ball into the goal to put his side ahead.
Singapore fell 3-4 to Russia in the men's Hockey Junior World Cup to extend their winless streak to six games.