Tuesday, December 11, 2007

SEA games ; NATIONAL PRIDE

and COACH PRIDE (:

sorry to displace the previous important posts (PLEASE SCROLL DOWN).. but gotta update all of you guys on the progress our national 7s team is making.. and how Derelyn is faring too! hehe.

the women's 7s squad consists of:

1. Serena Yeoh (Blacks RFC) (Captain)
2. Wang Shao-Ing (Blacks RFC)
3. Aslinda Abdullah (Blacks RFC) (Vice-Captain)
4. Eunice Tay (Blacks RFC)
5. Chan Wan Cheng (Blacks RFC)
6. Derelyn Chua (Blacks RFC)
7. Ang Weiyi (Blacks RFC)
8. Leung Wai-mun (Blacks RFC)
9. Zheng Yiting (SRC)
10. Jeslyn Lim (Wantoks)
11. Kristy Teh (Wantoks)
12. Haseena Allapitchay (Wantoks)

Standby Reserves:

13. Angelina Liu (SRC)
14. Tan Hui Juan (Blacks RFC)

and men's squad:
1. Rong Jing Xiang (Captain) (Bedok Kings)
2. Daniel Thiam (Bedok Kings)
3. Mohd Ismail Kadir (Wanderers)
4. Daniel Marc Chow (SCC)
5. Mohd Suhaimi Amran (SCC)
6. Hadizan Jamaan (Bucks)
7. Tong Chin Hong (Bedok Kings)
8. Derek Chan (SAFSA)
9. Hairul Naim (SCC)
10. Desmond Wee (Bedok Kings)
11. Bryan Ng (SCC)
12. David Teo (SCC)

Reserves (on Standby)
1. Justin Lum (SCC)
2. Soh Jin Qing (Bedok Kings)

the results so far:

Women’s Group Results:
Singapore 36: Laos 0
Led by captain Serena Yeoh and vice-captain Aslinda Abdullah, the girls scored six tries against Laos in their opening pool game. Standoff Eunice Tay began the onslaught with the opening try and proceeded to convert her own try. Turning over possession at rucks, scrums and line-outs, Jeslyn Lim and Derelyn Chua scored two tries a piece. Prop Kristy Teh added a final try just before the final whistle.

Singapore 12: Thailand 14.
In the much-anticipated second game against arch-rivals Thailand, the home nation put in the first try off a scrum inside Singapore’s 22m. The girls’ relentless defence kept Thailand scoreless after that and they walked off at half-time trailing 0-7. Singapore then capitalised on a Thai slip-up at kick-off at the beginning of the second half to score through winger Chua. Tay narrowly missed the conversion, leaving the team trailing 5-7.

Superior scrummaging by the Singapore forwards then forced a turnover during a Thai scrum in the home team’s 22m for Lim to score her third try of the day. A successful conversion by Tay then put Singapore up 12-7. However, a miscommunication in defence allowed Thailand to equalise a minute before full time. With scores level at 12-12, Thailand re-took the lead and the game with a successful conversion.

Singapore 29: Cambodia 0
http://redsports.sg/2007/12/11/singapore-ruggers-cambodia/
Derelyn didn't play for this game.

Men’s Group Results:
Singapore 22: Philippines 17
Singapore 36: Cambodia 0
Singapore 5: Thailand 24
Singapore 40: Laos 0
Singapore 14: Malaysia 21


11th December fixtures
Semi Finals

Singapore Women’s v Laos (at 1:40pm, Thai Time)
Thailand v Cambodia (at 2:00 pm)

Singapore Men’s v Thais (at 2:20 pm, Thai Time)
Malaysia v Philippines (at 2:40 pm)

Women’s Comp – Thailand finished first after the round robin competition, followed by Singapore, Laos and then Cambodia.

Men’s Comp – Malaysia finished first followed by Thailand, Singapore and Philippines in that order. Laos and Cambodia will play the 5th/6th Playoffs.

No injuries to both teams. Derelyn have recovered from the 1st day and should start in the semis.

Women’s will definitely play Thailand in the finals and in with a chance for the Gold.

Men’s – it will be a tough game against the Thais and the home crowd, but if we focus for the 14 minutes we are in with an even chance.

(note the grammatical error =$ tsk.. haha)

Women’s Competition
The women’s competition will definitely be a Thailand and Singapore Final – very straightforward as both teams are a few notches above Cambodia and Laos who are relatively new to the game. 14 points to 12 is the closest the ladies have ever been against Thailand in the last 2 years and they are quietly confident about their chances when they play against Thailand again tomorrow.

Men’s Competition
Malaysia is unbeaten so far defeating Thailand 15 – 10 and Philippines 17 – 12 yesterday. Thailand will have their home support but has picked up 1 or 2 injuries yesterday, as has Malaysia. Philippines will grow in stature through this tournament with their players mostly based and playing overseas, most notably Australia. The semi final will definitely be the three teams and us and we believe it will be anybody’s game tomorrow. We played well against Thailand in the 2nd half but 3 costly mistakes cost us 3 easy tries against Thailand. Today’s matches between us and Malaysia as well as Thailand against Philippines will decide who plays who in tomorrow’s semi-finals.

[sources: SRU & redsport]

WOOT! ALL THE WAY DERELYN (: and the rest of the national squad. VERY EXCITING. If only there was rugby coverage for SEA games.

edit-

okay sorry. no need to hope already. HAHA. we lost. =(

http://www.teamsingapore.com.sg/publish/teamsingapore/en/games/sea/2007.html

if you see the medal tally, it's 1 silver, 1 bronze for rugby.

Singapore lost 5-19 to thailand in the Gold Final (womens') So
Singapore won 12-5 to MALAYSIA (?!?! MAS rep malaysia right?) in the Bronze Final (mens'. lost 7-24 to thailand in semis to go for bronze final). I thought M'sia was going to win Gold for mens' rugby! HAHA oh wells now they've got nothing. SORRY.

http://www.teamsingapore.com.sg/publish/teamsingapore/en/games/sea/2007/thailand_2007/schedule.detail.html?sportFilter=91