By Wong Hong Yong/Red Sports

Republic Polytechnic Badminton hall, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – Republic Polytechnic opened their Polytechnic-Institute of Tehnical Education (POL-ITE) floorball season with an emphatic 16-0 demolition of their Singapore Polytechnic counterparts.

SP were still reeling from their opening day 9-0 thrashing by NYP and little did they know that things were going to get from bad to worse.

In the first period alone, SP allowed RP to score nine goals without conjuring up any reply. The goals coming from Marie Denisse (RP #4), Reena Wong (RP #8), Lim Pei Ling (RP #12) (twice), Joelle Kong (RP #13), Sheryl Wee (RP #22), Dai Yi Wen (RP #7) and Siti Hairin (RP #99).

SP could not contain the RP attacking forays, with the Yi Wen being particularly impressive with her darting run down the boards and constant cutting in to provide her team mates with the killer pass.

The 2nd period was all about Sheryl Wee as she completed her quadruple by scoring three goals. The impressive Yi Wen completed her brace together with teammate Marie Denisse, with each netting once.

The SP team was looking rather disorganized, and a routine throw was fluffed by the goalie to aid the Sheryl in completing her quadruple for a 13-0 SP lead at the end of the 2nd period.

The 3rd period was a far tighter game, as both teams began to tire, coupled with the SP girls being determined to keep the scoreline as low as possible.

It was still not to be though, as Marie Denisse scored at the 11:00 mark. A minute later, Atiqah (RP #62) also found the back of the net with a cracker. Two minutes from time, a momentary lapse in concentration by the SP defense allowed Marie Denisse to round up the scoring and grab her hat-trick.

The RP men team also secured their opening day win, with a hard fought 6-1 win over the much improved Singapore Polytechnic team. The Singapore Poly men are still without a win in two games, as they lost their opening day fixture 7-0 to NYP.

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