Entries from November 2009

November 25, 2009

Singapore’s hockey teens finish sixth in U-18 Asia Cup

Heartiest congratulations to our national boys’ hockey team for finishing sixth out of 10 teams at the recent Boys Under-18 Asia Cup in Myanmar which ended on Nov 21.
The Singapore Hockey Federation had set the team the target of finishing fifth or sixth, and our lion-hearted hockey teens duly delivered.
Singapore was grouped with Taiwan, South [...]

November 19, 2009

Asian Cup qualifiers: Singapore hands itself a lifeline with a 1-0 win over Thailand

The report:
Here’s the match report of Singapore’s 1-0 win over Thailand. The bulk of the report came from Reuters. I added some of my own observations in as well. Cheers:
BANGKOK – Singapore banished all memories of a nightmarish defeat by Thailand on Saturday and climbed to second place in their Asian Cup qualifying group after snatching [...]

November 16, 2009

How Singapore are faring at the Asian Athletics Championships Part 2

Here are Singapore’s remaining results from the Asian Athletics Championships in Guangzhou which ended on Saturday:
Men’s Discus:
Scott Wong (national junior record for 1.75kg discus: 49.60m) finished 10th out of 11 competitors. His best effort was 42.70m. He also recorded two other throws of 42.01m and 42.63m. The event was won by Iran’s Ehsan Hadidi (64.83m) [...]