Contributed by reader who is a St Andrew’s old boy (SaintZ)

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The Under-13 champions from St Andrew’s Junior School. (Photo © Yee Teck Peng)

St Andrew’s Village, Thursday, April 17, 2008 – St Andrew’s Junior School beat Anglo-Chinese School (Primary) 21-0 last week to capture the National Rugby U-13 Championship title.

The top four schools from each zone qualified for the National Championship and ACS(Pri), Damai, Qifa and the Saints topped their respective groups during the round-robin qualifying round.

In the quarter-finals, the ACSians had a game among themselves, with ACS(Jr) taking on ACS(Pri), with the latter winning the game. Damai beat West View, ChongZheng beat Qifa and Saints beat Pei Tong, a rather strong rival for the last few years.

In the semi-finals, both ACS(Pri) and Saints easily beat their rivals Damai and ChongZheng respectively with identical scorelines of 14-0. This set the stage for Saints to meet their traditional rivals ACS. In the last few years, the ACS school have started to make their presence felt at the finals of the National Under-13 Championships.

The final started with the blue-and-white striped Saints performing their traditional and original Saints battle cry against the blue-and-yellow striped ACS(Pri). While the battle cry was performed, the ACS(Pri) ruggers walked away with their backs facing the Saints.

Saints eventually punished ACS(Pri) 21-0 to emerge as the National U-13 champion.

Now, we shall wait and see how many of these 12-year-old ruggers will be poached by rival schools.

National Under-13 Championship Groups:

Group A
Chongzheng
ACS(Pri)
Si Ling
Zhenghua

Group B
Sembawang
Damai
Pei Tong
Concord

Group C
Qifa
Greenwood
Gongshang
ACS(Jnr)

Group D
St Andrew’s
Westview
Marsiling
Casuarina