By Ian Chew

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Royson Quek of Peirce attempting to hook a shot past Jabez Su of Catholic High. The South Zone all-star team boasts a stellar cast of players including Ng Zhao Feng of Gan Eng Seng and Wang Jia Cheng of Raffles Institution. (Photo 1 © Ian Chew/Red Sports)

Catholic High School, Saturday, March 14, 2009 – Despite missing key players like Ng Zhao Feng of Gan Eng Seng Secondary and Wong Kam Seng of Catholic High at their only training session, the South Zone all-stars are the team to beat at this year’s zonal all-star basketball championships.

Newcomers to the all-star scene Wang Jia Cheng of Raffles Institution and Chong Ming Xuan of Catholic High combined effortlessly with their South Zone teammates in a formidable team line-up which also included 1.95m tall Fong Jia Jun of Queensway Secondary. This resulted in an impressive average height of more than 1.8m for the team!

This year’s all-star basketball competition promises to be more exciting as talented foreign students are included in the zonal teams for the first time. Fans can now look forward to non-local athletes like Lor Weng Siang of New Town Secondary strutting their skills on the highest competitive stage alongside local ones. The combined schools selection committee will then select a maximum of two non-Singaporean in the final draft of twelve players for the combined schools squad.

Yet winning the competition seems to be the furthest thing away from the mind of South Zone teacher-in-charge Teo Siang Yang.

“My aim for the squad is for everyone to have adequate opportunities to showcase their talents fully on the all-star stage and for the selection committee to choose the best twelve players possible for the combined schools squad,” he said.

Similarly, the selected players seemed to have differing aims apart from winning.

“I hope to be able to make new friends through the all-star competition!” said Jabez Su of Catholic High School, who was also designated as the captain of the South Zone all-star team.

The all-star competition will on 18 March (Wed) for the girls and 19 March (Thu) for the boys. All matches will be played at CCAB, Evans Road starting from 8.30am in the morning.

List of selected players for south zone all-stars (boys)
1. Jabez Su Ming Rong (Catholic High)
2. Dominic Lim Wei Jie (Catholic High)
3. Wong Kam Seng (Catholic High)
4. Goh Kong Tat (Catholic High)
5. Chong Ming Xuan (Catholic High)
6. Ng Wei Sin (Gan Eng Seng Sec)
7. Ng Zhao Feng (Gan Eng Seng Sec)
8. Lowell Leong Jia Hao (Peirce Sec)
9. Royson Quek Qi Hao (Peirce Sec)
10. Jeremy Ng Quan Wei (Queensway Sec)
11. Fong Jia Jun (Queensway Sec)
12. Johann Yeo Zong Han (Queensway Sec)
13. Wang Jia Cheng (Raffles Institution)
14. Wu Shurong (Yuying Sec)
15. Yeow Yong Chin (Yuying Sec)

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An average height of more than 1.8m makes the south zone team a formidable opponent for the rest. (Photo 2 © Ian Chew/Red Sports)

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