The Interschool Nationals Table Tennis Championship ended today with 3 highly contested matches. I don't count ours because we basically got trashed. Dong Shuai lost 3 - 0 in the first singles, and we anticipated that St. Gabriel's would want to kill us ASAP, so they would be sending their stronger doubles first, but we were wrong. It seemed like they had predicted this and knew that we too would be putting our China pair forward, which they did not seem confident of beating. As such, they sacrificed their Local pair, which of course we would win. The 2nd Singles by You Hao was not really a competitive match either although he lost 3 - 1, but we had a chance in the 2nd Doubles when Edwin and Benedict played against their China pair and were losing 2 - 1, 10 - 9. But they lost the last ball. At least they took a set from them.
Both teams had barely any supporters, Anglican had a small group, Cedar Girls Supporters came into the hall at least 6 times, while Hwa Chong and Raffles took up half of the Grand Stand as they evened their numbers. Our cheering was COMPLETELY pathetic compared to theirs.
We were the first to lose, as B Division Girls, A Division Girls and Boys were playing tougher matches between more evenly matched China players in the case of the girls. The boys had more locals playing. Cedar Girls beat Anglican High 3 - 2 for the B Division Girls Champion Title. For A Division, Hwa Chong won the first singles, Raffles won first Doubles, Raffles won 2nd Singles and
We were playing outside since we lost early and it was estimated to end in about an hour, so we scouted the area, went in and out of KFC 3 times in a group of about 15, then we decided to go back to the old days. We played catching. Yes, catching. Freeze-And-Melt, rather. Running around and tapping people in the Grand Stand, then watching that prisoner while his accomplices try to free him. Sean went on to do some parkour moves over metal railings and got himself a wound on the leg, not a very smart move. Well, we came back perspiring, of course
For the A Division boys, Hwa Chong brought the score to 2 - 0 when they won the First Singles and Doubles, but lost 3 straight matches after that in an epic comeback by Raffles although Hwa Chong put up a really tough fight in the last Singles when Dai Ming Lun led 2 - 0, but he was rivaled when it became 2 - 2. However, he won the last set 11 - 9 to claim the Title for A Division Boys.