Sports School Juniors thump Malay Mail

07/03/2003

DESPITE playing at half-pace, Sports School Juniors still managed to thump
Malay Mail 7-1 in a Division Two MHF-Milo-Admiral-NSC Junior Hockey League
match at the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil yesterday.
Sports School finally broke their duck by scoring more than six goals in
one match, but Malay Mail scored a penalty stroke and brought down the
equation to six.
The Juniors top Division Two with 24 points from eight wins, but could
be overtaken - on goal difference - when second placed Malacca Municipal
Council play two `easy' matches against Penang Free School today and then
Armed Forces Apprentice Training School on Sunday.
Malacca already have a cushion of 44 goals even though they have played
two matches less than Sports School Juniors.
"I fail to understand why it is so difficult for the boys to score more
than six goals in a match. They have been too generous by letting in six
easy goals in eight matches," said Sports School Juniors coach V.
Muraleedharan.
Sports School played two matches in the space of 24 hours, because 10 of
their players are slated to play in the Asian Hockey Federation Under-16
tournament in Dhaka, Bangladesh beginning tomorrow.
The Sports School scorers yesterday were Razie Rahim (sixth), Baljit
Singh (17th, 50th), Nabil Fiqri (23rd, 66th), Hafiz Jami (36th) and Craig
Joseph Fernandez (60th). Malay Mail's penalty stroke was converted by
Zuladli Jamil in the 63rd minute.
Baljit Singh is fast becoming a penalty corner asset for Sports School
as his tally now stands at 14 goals.
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