School...

...Rules!

Sekolah Sukan Bandar Penawar (SSBP) emerged as Champions of the National U-16 Women Hockey Tournament 2010 after defeating Kuala Lumpur in the final at the MBKT Hockey Stadium in Kuala Terengganu.

After a goalless first half SSBP struck twice in quick succession through Norshahida Sakira Kirman and Liyana Aqilah Mohamad Sepawi towards the end of the match against the City Girls to record a 2-0 win. This left them together with host Terengganu as the only unbeaten teams in the tournament.

Earlier The Girl Turtles defeated Melaka 4-2 to clinch third place. The win showed the mental strength of the players after suffering a heartbreaking penalty-stroke defeat to Kuala Lumpur yesterday evening.

The individual awards were evenly spread with the tournament Top-scorer was won by SSBP's Hanis Nadiah Onn while the award for the Best Goalkeeper was won by Terengganu Noor Rul Azwani Zuraiden. Kuala Lumpur Surizan Awang Noh was named as the Player of the Tournament award.


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Heartbreaks...

...for Lady Turtles

It was heartbreak hotel for the Terengganu girls this evening when they lost to Kuala Lumpur in the semi-final of the National U-16 Women Hockey Tournament 2010 at the MBKT Hockey Stadium in Kuala Terengganu. Both teams failed to find the net during regulation time and the extra-time also failed to break the stalemate.

In the end the match had to be settled through the lottery of penalty strokes. In the failing light due to the stadium's non-functional floodlights, the City Girls held their nerve to edge the host 3-2. Kuala Lumpur went through to meet the winner of the first semi-final between Sekolah Sukan Bandar Penawar (SSBP) and Melaka.

The sports school did not have much difficulties in disposing the Group A champions with a one sided score of 4-1. Melaka now will play Terengganu tomorrow morning to determine third and fourth place while the final between SSBP and Kuala Lumpur will take place in the afternoon.


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Tigers...

...Mauled!

It was not the scoreline every Malaysian would have imagine prior to the AFF Suzuki Cup 2010 clash between bitter rivals Indonesia and Malaysia. Many would feel it is a hard task to defeat the Indonesians especially in front of their partisan home crowd thus a draw or a low scoring defeat would be acceptable.

Unfortunately the worst thing could happen, happened. At the end of the ninety minutes played the scoreline read; INDONESIA 5 MALAYSIA 1.

It was certainly a victory every Indonesian dreamed about and for every Malaysian, their worst nightmare.

However, both coaches agreed the scoreline did not reflect the quality of the match with Malaysia certainly made life tough for the home side. Perhaps the actual difference between the teams was there were too many mistakes committed by the Malaysians.

Malaysia took the lead in the 19th minute when a long ball out of defence found its way to Mohamad Safee Sali who took on two defenders before laying it to Shahrul Idlan Talaha. The striker lifted the ball before unleashing a volley which was powerful enough to beat the Indonesian goalkeeper. A well taken goal.

The equaliser for the home side was stated as an own goal by defender Mohamad Asrarudin but the cross from the right should not have been allowed in the first place. Then another Malaysian player committed the cardinal sin in football when he was caught in possession around the penalty area.

When the ball found its way to Uruguayan born Christian Gonzales, it was a matter of picking out his spot to beat Sharbinee Allawee in the Malaysian goal. The Terengganu goalkeeper performed heroically throughout the match, preventing a number of chances from being turned into goals by the Indonesian forward.

However, he was helpless when his defender went asleep again when Indonesia substitute Muhamad Ridwan tried to play a one-two at the edge of the Malaysian penalty box. Defender Mohamad Fadli Shas tried to block the ball but the it fell into the path of Ridwan who continued his run with no Malaysian player alert enough to stick with him which made his task in beating Sharbinee a lot easier.

If the equaliser could be deemed as an unfortunate incident for Asrarudin, conceding the fourth goal was of his own making. A high ball which should have been bread and butter for the defender was mis-controlled by Asrarudin. The loose ball was pounced by Arif Suyono who had the strength to shrug off the challenges by the Malaysian defence before slotting the ball past Sharbinee, who was clearly disappointed with his defence.

Then deep into stoppage time when many Malaysians were thinking nothing worse could happen, the Indonesian broke through again. Again it was on the right and the cross by Oktovianus Maniani was turned in by Irfan Bachdim to give the scoreline a huge gloss for his side while a gloom outlook for the Malaysians who now will take on perennial favourite Thailand in their next match which could determine who will be in the last four of the competition.

It was certainly not a night to remember for Malaysians but it is certainly not the end of the fight either.

C'MON TIGERS!



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March On...

...Girls!

Melaka continued their march into the last four of the National U-16 Women Hockey Tournament 2010 after a clinical 2-0 win over rivals Kuala Lumpur at the Majlis Bandaraya Kuala Terengganu Hoockey Stadium this morning. The win put them on top of the Group A table, level on points with Kuala Lumpur but having a superior goal difference than the City Girls.

Pulau Pinang played twice in a day due to some technical problems in their travel to the East Coast but at the end of the day put themselves in third place with an outside chance to qualify to the last four even though it will be a difficult task as their last match will be against the free scoring Melaka side.

Both Melaka and Kuala Lumpur could confirm their places in the last four tomorrow when they take on Johor and Negeri Sembilan respectively. The same outcome would be on the cards tomorrow in Group B after both Sekolah Sukan Bandar Penawar (SSBP) and host Terengganu registered their third consecutive win today.

Both teams only managed to score single goal victory over their opponents but they were enough to put them on top of the Group B standings. SSBP overcame a gritty Selangor side with Nurul Nadiah scoring through a field goal four minutes before the interval.

Meanwhile Terengganu found it hard to breach a resolute Kedah defence and had to wait until the 54th minute before Nurul Idayu getting the all important strike in a well worked out field goal.

Terengganu will take on Kelantan in an East Coast derby while another East Coast side Pahang will provide the opponent for SSBP.

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Girls'...

...Power

Host Terengganu and Sekolah Sukan Bandar Penawar continued their winning form to lead the rest in Group B after registering their second win of the National U-16 Women Hockey Tournament 2010.

Kelantan were at the end of another hammering, going down 6-0 to the sports school outfit while Terengganu were forced to work hard by Selangor before winning their encounter by the match solitary goal.

Pahang and Kedah played out to a 2-2 draw in another Group B match. Melaka opened their campaign by recording a 7-0 victory over their northern neighbour Negeri Sembilan. Kuala Lumpur meanwhile continued their winning ways by defeating Pulau Pinang 3-0 to top Group A with maximum points from two matches.

More photos HERE.



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Sticking...

...Around

The 2010 National U-16 Women Hockey Tournament is being held in Kuala Terengganu from 28 November 2010 until 4 December 2010. Matches are played at two venues; the Majlis Bandaraya Kuala Terengganu Hockey Stadium in Batu Buruk and the Gong Badak Sports Complex. However, most matches are held at the former due to its better facilities.

Eleven teams take part in the event and are divided into two groups. Group A consists of Kuala Lumpur, Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Pulau Pinang while Kedah, Sekolah Sukan Bandar Penawar(SSBP), Selangor, Kelantan, Pahang and host Terengganu are in Group B.

On the opening day Kuala Lumpur defeated Johor 2-1 in the sole Group A match while SSBP opened their campaign with a 5-0 thrashing of Kedah. In the afternoon session Selangor repeated the 5-0 scoreline when they overcame Kelantan while host Terengganu had to stage a second half comeback after Pahang led them 1-0 at the interval. The Young Lady Turtles scored thrice to make the final score 3-1 in their favour.

For more photos, please go HERE


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Horsing...

...Around.

After the excitement in the water during the Heritage Bay Cup, Monsoon Cup 2010 Edition with Team AG:eing, mad redo1 will take his interest a bit inland with the Sultan's Cup Terengganu Endurance Challenge 2010 at The Terengganu International Equestrian Park in Lembah Bidong, Setiu, Terengganu.

The following information are taken from www.Equestrian.com.my:

The Sultan’s Cup 2010 is an CEI 2* endurance race run over 120km of undulating terrain with a time limit of 12 hours including holding time totalling 210 minutes at the first four vet gates. The race consists of five phases. The first phase is 30km, second phase is 25km, third phase is 20km, fourth is 25km and the fifth and final phase is 20km.

At the vet gates, horses’ heart rates will be checked and must be 64 beat per minute (bpm) within 20 minutes and at the final exam, the heart rate must be 64 bpm within 30 minutes. If the stipulated heart rates are not achieved the horse will be disqualified. The minimum weight for riders is 75 kg.

Seri Paduka Baginda Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Nur Zahirah will flag-off of the 2010 Sultan’s Cup at the Terengganu International Endurance Park (TIEP) at 5.00pm on Saturday, 6 November.

mad redo1 intends to be there during the flag-off to capture a few shots of this prestigious tournament. With Linda is away again, it is up to him to keep the AKSes occupied during the weekend.

Of course prior to the flag-off the organizers already lined up a number of programme aimed at the general public who will come to the event, mad redo1 and the AKSes included.


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