RI 52 - 34 Tampines Secondary

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This was the first game of the Nationals. Fortunately, this was the easiest game of the first round.

We outscored the opponent in the first and second quarter with a numerous 3 pointers and managed to collect quite a number of offensive rebounds too. In the third quarter, the opponents tried to make a comeback mainly through the post. He had many running hook shots that he converted. Furthermore, we also had poor help defense, and allowed their wings to cut to the basket from half court. In the fourth quarter, we were exhausted as we had been playing a full court man to man defense for the past 3 quarters, and attempted many low percentage shots. However, the opponents were also tired, as seen from their reduced number of fast breaks. In the end, we managed to outlast the opponent and get the win.

Even though we won this game, we must definitely go back and prepare even harder because we know that the next 2 matches against North Vista and New Town is not going to be easy.

RI 45 - 24 Gan Eng Seng

In this crucial match we managed to win by 21 points to secure a place in the 2nd round of the SZ Tournament. We played solid defense, with good help side and had few fouls. We got a big lead by the 2nd quarter, making us complacent, allowing the opponents to score fast breaks and open shots. They even managed to out score us in the 4th quarter

We hope to try and beat Fairfield Methodist-a strong team, on Friday.

1st Quarter--RI 10 GES 4

2nd Quarter--RI 17 GES 2

3rd Quarter--RI12 GES 8

4th Quarter--RI 10 GES 6

RI 57 - 24 Henderson Secondary

In this match we started off slow and played quite solid defense, stepping up the pace in the second quarter. We cut down on our fouls from 23 during the ACS Barker match to 8 fouls. However, our weak side rebound was not very good and a lot needs to be done in preparation for the crucial GES match.

We hope to win GES and proceed to the 2nd round.

1st Quarter RI 10 HSS 2

2nd Quarter RI 15 HSS 9

3rd Quarter RI 17 HSS 4

4th quarter RI 15 HSS 9

RI 50 - 25 ACS Barker

This was the 2nd game of the season. After our loss to Queensway we started trying to fix our two problems especially our weak side rebound. Despite this big win we could have done better and scored about 60 points if we had not missed easy baskets. During the first quarter we pressed them hard with our full court man defense and managed to get several easy lay-ups. By the end of the 2nd quarter we already managed to maintain quite a huge lead(28-5). We had managed to grab most of our defensive rebounds and quite a few offensive ones too. However another big problem arose during this match, there were simply just too many fouls. We had 23 fouls, most of which were unnecessary. The main problems was everyone was just using "too much hands and too little legs" on defense. This caused ACS to get a lot of chances at the FT line.

Anyway we hope to learn from this and win the next match against Henderson on Friday and the crucial match against Gan Eng Seng following Thursday and be able to proceed to the 2nd round.

1st Quarter--RI 14 ACS 4

2nd Quarter--RI 14 ACS 1

3rd Quarter--RI 14 ACS 8

4th Quarter--RI 8 ACS 12

Queensway Secondary 48 - 30 RI

This was the first game of the first round for South Zone and we had quite a tough pick. This was an important match which we disappointingly lost. We did not really know much about the team, but we were able to pick out their 3 key players (7, 11, 12). We played acceptable defense and started out strong but lost in the end due to 2 fatal mistakes - weak side rebound and stopping of the opponents fast breaks. We lost about 8 points due the the fast breaks and another 16 points due to no weak side rebounds. Queensway simply just shot, picked up their own rebound and put it back in.

We hope to try and fix those two big problems and win ACS barker on Wednesday!

1st Quarter--RI 4 Queensway 6

2nd Quarter--RI 4 Queensway 14

3rd Quarter--RI 11 Queensway 14

4th Quarter--RI 11 Queensway 14

Launch of Gryphons Basketball Club

The Gryphons Basketball Club (GBC) will be launched 7 May 2011@ RI from 1400hrs to 1530hrs.

Calling all alumni of Raffles Basketball to register to be a member of this club. Please send an email to shaypiao.ngoh@ri.edu.sg and our club secretary will contact you.

B Div South Zone Finals

One word: Champions!

Enough said.

Check out Redsport game story for today's match here