Let me proudly announce.. TJ is the national champion for Basketballs boys! We beat Hwa Chong with a score of 70 to 62 (I think)..hahaz.. we won them by 8 points..
It was a remarkable achievement for TJ.. It has been 15 years since we got into the finals..and 20 years since we got the champs..lolz.. TJ, we are proud of you!
This time round, there are a lot more supporters then the volleyball finals cos nearly the whole school is there.. hahaz.. it was really a great match.. At first, TJ was very aggressive.. that why's we scored first and lead them by 5 points before Hwa Chong scored their first ball.. for the first quarter, we are leading.. however, Hwa Chong managed to narrow down the difference to 3 points in 2nd quarter.. 33-30.. after that was the really exciting part.. In the 3rd quarter, our team was getting tired and didn't perform as well as before.. in the end, Hwa Chong managed to counterattack and lead us by a few points! The audience were anxious then but we knew it is possible to catch up with them..
In the last quarter, TJ put up a real tough fight..we scored the first ball in the 4th quarter. Although it is so, Hwa Chong scored after we scored.. thus we are unable to catch up with them. They are still leading. At 6mins, when our team managed to catch up with them slowly, suddenly, Hwa Chong scored a few balls and lead us by 6 points.. I was getting panicky at that instant.. cos it is only 4 mins left.. although I know it takes seconds to score but I am still worried cos while we are trying our best.. Hwa Chong is too.. Luckily, things went smoothly for us after that.. we managed to scored in a few balls and penalities and the marks were close.. on moment, we were leading by one mark, then next moment, Hwa Chong was leading.. in the last 40 seconds, it was really a miracle.. Lady luck was with us..our team scored.. changing the situation.. we were no longer leading by 1 mark but 3 marks instead.. As time was running out, Hwa Chong tired to fight back.. but the ball was in our players' hands most of the time.. then at this moment, our player scored again! We are leading ahead by 5 points! Then in the last few seconds, our player shot in a 3 points ball! Hurray! We cheered! It was a win win situation for us cos there was not much time enough for the opponent to catch up.. We began the countdown.. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..the whistle blew.. we won!!!! The whole stadium was filled with cheers and screams.. friends hugged one another at the spectator stand.. it is not hard to see the players beaming in the court.. it has ended and ended well.. Cheers were next..we were the champions, we were the champions, we were the champions we cheered.. when they present the trophy to Mrs Lim, she held it up in her hands proudly.. the stadium was filled with cheers and screams once more..Well done! TJ rocks!
I am not playing bias here.. but our team players really showed true team spirit throughout the match.. they had the bond between them and at times when they passed the ball to one another,we didn't expect some players to get the ball cos there were no signs beforehand but the players still got it.. thanks to them that they had brought TJ to greater heights.. Hip Hip Hurray!
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