Milo Youth Cup Final Round

Milo Youth Cup U16 Boys Final Round
22/6 Sun 1900hrs - Tagawa vs Gryphons
23/6 Mon 1730hrs - Gryphons vs Tong Whye Sports Association
25/6 Wed 2030hrs - Tong Whye Temple vs Gryphons
29/6 Sun 1000hrs - Gryphons vs Home United Dragons

• For all other fixtures: http://www.bas.org.sg/documents/MILO_JrBC_2008_Fixtures.xls
• Note that this is a 6-teamround robin final round and we carry over round 2's 4-point win over Chong Ghee SA.

Coach: This has been quite a good and useful tournament for us and you've surprised yourself by going so far. Treasure the opportunity to play against the best in your age group. You can be proud that you are the only school team among the top 6 teams.

RI-Paya Lebar CSC

Milo '16' Cup Boys
BAS
16/06/08

RI-Paya Lebar CSC
Final Score: 71-46

This was the first game with our full team back, and we were, back to business.

It didn't start all too well though, where we found ourselves down 0-5 within a few minutes. Our outside shots weren't hitting, but we clawed our way back to equalize the score at 9-9 at the end of the first quarter. Although we found it hard to defend their speedy point guard #11, with our full team back, we managed to take the game into our hands with some good defense and led 30-20 at the half. The third quarter was where our offense started to liven up, with the outside players hitting shots from all over the floor. We extended our lead to 51-29, and the game seemed to be over by then. The opposing team started to press in the fourth, but we managed to overcome their traps and get some fast breaks in the process. We won the game 71-46.

Of considerable mention would be Weixuan's 26 point game, which included 5 three-pointers.

A great boost to team morale!

RI-Chong Ghee Sports Club (Presbyterian High U-16)

Milo '16' Cup Boys
Kembangan Community Centre
14/06/08

RI-Chong Ghee Sports Club
Final Score: 51-47

When we saw Coach Low Tong walking up to the opposing team, we all started laughing. And when Coach came, we laughed even harder. It was to be the battle of the coaches, our coaches, and an exciting game it would be. We started off the quarter making free throws (which was very unlike our previous games), and countering their 1-1-3 defense with someone at the high post, and the score was tied at 12 at the end of the quarter. The second quarter was where we upped our intensity and started to trap properly, and we led 24-21 at the half. We pushed our lead in the third quarter to 40-34, and this set the mood for a tense final quarter, where we held on despite not being able to guard their dominant centre #15. Both sides grabbed their fair share of offensive and defensive rebounds, and 4 players from the opposing team fouled out.

Lessons learnt:
1) Box out
2) Half front the big guy, don't let him get the ball (wings come down and pressure him when he does)

Coach: I think we must say that Chong Ghee only had 8 players dressed for the game and we were pretty fortunate in that light, even though JC was absent. On hindsight, it was also significant that we did not lose that slender lead. Our +4 point differential proved to be crucial compared to the -2 we suffered vs Home U.

Milo Youth Cup U18 Fixtures

29 May 1900hrs @ Kembangan MRT Basketball Courts
Singapore Schools Red vs Gryphons

1 Jun 1430hrs @ SBC2
Gryphons vs Tagawa

8 Jun 1500hrs @ SBC1
Gryphons vs Wei Xiong

Milo U16 Cup - Gryphons 66 - 48 Kaixuan

The U16 team was initially made up of sec 2s and 3s, hoping to make use of the tournament to gain exposure. However, after some disputes over the minimum age for teams, there had to be some adjustments made, and now the b'div 08 team (sec3s and 4s) will be playing in probably their last tournament together in RI jerseys.

We played our first game yesterday against Kaixuan, finally getting the chance to play against teams without any overage players in this tournament. The game started off very slow-paced, and at one point through the second quarter we found ourselves down by a whopping 18 points due to a streak by kaixuan which included them getting several foul-ins and numerous successful 3p attempts. Thankfully, we came back strong after a time-out and our traps and defense saved us yet again from an embarrassing defeat. We turned the 20 point deficit around and led by 1 at the end of the third quarter. It was evident in the final quarter that the Kaixuan players couldn't seem to match up with our pace of the game and we eventually broke away to triumph by 18 points.

We will be playing Home United (protectors) tomorrow, 8.30pm @ SBC. They are a team consisting of several star players from various secondary schools, and we'll be playing without coach, but the taste of victory is surely too sweet for us to give in before the game has even started and we'll be gunning for an upset.