HOCKEY

National ‘A’ Division Boys’ and Girls’
Semifinals

Update provided by A Red Sports reader from St Andrew’s Junior College who wishes to remain anonymous.

Jieying of VJC (in yellow) in action during an earlier preliminary round game. The VJC girls will now take on ACJC in the semifinals on Monday, 15 May, 3pm, at Delta Stadium. © Shaun Chook

History was created on Friday 11 May 2007 at CCAB when for the first time in the ‘A’ Division history, a three-way penalty shootout was to held to decide who would qualifies for the Boys’ semifinals. This happened after Victoria Junior College (VJC) drew with St Andrew’s Junior College (SAJC) 0-0. Because VJC, SAJC and Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC)all had an equal number of points, the three teams had to go to penalty strokes to decide who would go through.

So after the final whistle between VJC and SAJC on Friday, the three teams took to the penalties. VJC lost the penalty shootouts to both ACJC and SAJC,  SAJC lost to ACJC but beat VJC. So ACJC and SAJC are through and VJC are out. (Confused? It’s ok. Read again. Slowly.)

So this leaves the coming Tuesday 15 May 2007 with exciting semifinals for the boys. SAJC will meet Raffles Junior College (RJC) and Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) will meet ACJC. Both games are at Delta stadium, 3pm and 4.30pm respectively. For the girls, the semifinals will be played coming Monday, 14 May 2007.  VJC will face ACJC and SAJC will face RJC. Both games at Delta Stadium and at 3pm and 4.30pm respectively.