Having already smashed the A division 200m backstroke meet record earlier in the day, Rainer Ng from Raffles Instituition (JC) returned in the evening to spark his team to a new meet record in the 4x50m A division boys medley relay of 1 min 46.31 seconds.
There are many stories to tell every year at the National Inter-School Track and Field Championships. The difficult part is always to choose which ones to highlight, thereby leaving some in the shade.
Singapore Sports School edged out CHIJ Secondary (Toa Payoh) 20-19 to grab the National B Division Netball Championship title. CHIJ, who had six starters from last year's national championship winning team, failed to defend their title after missing two consecutive shots in the last minute.
Singapore Sports School (SSP) failed to push the game into overtime after fumbling the last centre pass to lose the final 22-23 to CHIJ Secondary (Toa Payoh) in the final of the National C Division Netball Championship.
Defending champions Singapore Sports School beat St Margaret's Secondary 17-11 the semi-final of the C Division Netball Championship.
North Zone champions Singapore Sports School crashed to their first defeat of the season with a 25-29 loss to defending champions CHIJ (Toa Payoh) in the B Division Netball Championship.
Powerhouse Singapore Sports School held their nerve to win the Manchester United Premier Cup (MUPC) through a penalty shootout that saw them edge past Hong Kah Secondary 5-3.
There cannot be a more dominant athlete on the school sports scene now than Zachary Ryan Devaraj. The Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (ACSI) track star put up an inspired display of front-running, leading his B Division 1500m race from start to finish, and clocked a time of 4min 12.61 seconds to better the 11-year-old mark of 4:14.13, set by Kannan Poobalan of Victoria School (VS) in 1999.