IT WILL be a race of the sports schools next weekend to see who finishes second in Division One and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Hockey League.
Armed Forces Juniors, who already cemented the top spot last weekend, took it easy against bottom placed UniTen and played to a 2-2 draw yesterday.
However, Bukit Jalil Sports School (BJSS) beat Malacca City Council 3-1, while Bandar Penawar Sports School (BPSS) beat Universiti Sains Malaysia 3-2 to take the second spot battle to the wire on Friday.
BPSS now have 21 points, while BJSS 19 and they will be playing Army Juniors and UniTen to set-up a date with League champions Kuala Lumpur Hockey Club (KLHC) in the last eight.
Division one champions Army Juniors have already sealed their fate against Charity Shield champions Tenaga Nasional in the quarter-finals.
And in the Premier Division, it will be a holiday in Malacca for the top-two teams, as they have already sealed their fates with one match to spare.
But the Tenaga Nasional v Kuala Lumpur Hockey Club match could turn out to be a thriller, as both teams prepare for the knock-out and KLHC having a score to settle for losing the Charity Shield to the utility giants in the first match of the season.
KLHC received RM60,000 for winning the title, while Tenaga Nasional RM40,000 for finishing second.
“My players not only deserve credit for winning the League title, but also the money that came with it. KLHC will not take a cut, and the players and team management will share all the spoils,” said KLHC team manager George Koshy.
With money in the bag, KLHC players will now strive to seal the TNB Cup title as well, as the club has five League titles but only one Overall title to show.
DIVISION ONE: Results: Malacca CC 1 Bukit Jalil Sports School 3, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2 Bandar Penawar Sports School 3, UniTen 2 Armed Forces Juniors 2.
Feb 25: Bukit Jalil Sports School v UniTen (Ministry of Education Stadium, 5pm), Armed Forces Juniors v Bandar Penawar Sports School (Tun Razak Stadium, 5pm).
PREMIER DIVISION: Feb 26 -- UniKL v UiTm (5pm), Maybank v Yayasan Negri Sembilan (4pm), Sapura v Armed Forces-Airod (6pm), Tenaga Nasional v Kuala Lumpur Hockey Club (8pm).
PREMIER DIVISION
P W D L F A Pt
KLHC 15 13 1 1 72 20 40
TNB 15 11 1 3 46 17 34
SAPURA 15 10 0 5 43 28 30
UNIKL 15 8 3 4 27 27 27
YNS 15 7 0 8 44 41 21
MAYBANK 15 4 3 8 18 25 15
NUR INSAFI 16 4 2 10 27 51 14
UITM 15 3 0 12 21 50 9
ATM 15 3 0 12 18 57 9
DIVISION ONE
P W D L F A Pt
ATM JNR 11 9 2 0 29 9 29
BPSS 11 7 0 4 24 17 21
BJSS 11 6 1 4 27 14 19
MALACCA CC 12 5 1 6 16 16 16
IPOH CH 12 4 3 5 19 24 15
USM 12 3 0 9 18 36 9
UNITEN 11 1 3 7 11 28 6
Sunday, February 20, 2011
That's the spirit mate...
By: 02/19/11 6:39 PM 
By: AP Photo/Jon Super
A splinter is seen through the leg of Malaysia's Azizulhasni Awang after a crash in the Men's Keirin Final during the Track Cycling World Cup at the National Cycling Centre, Manchester, England, Saturday Feb. 19, 2011. Awang finished third in the race.
Azizulhasni Awang won a bronze medal at cycling's Track World Cup, and boy, did he ever earn it.
The Malaysian rider managed to get back on his bike after a dramatic crash in Saturday's Keirin final and stagger across the line, but it was only afterward that the full extent of his injury became clear.
Pictures showed a large splinter of wood had gone right through his left calf.
Awang was promoted to third after Spanish rider Juan Peralta Gascon was disqualified. But Awang missed his moment on the podium because he was on his way to a hospital.
Keevan loses cool, Maybank seal spot
Nur Insafi’s K. Keevan Raj (centre) has a go at umpire K. Lingam in the MHL match yesterday. — Picture by Fariz Iswadi Ismail.MAYBANK squeezed into the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Hockey League when they beat Nur Insafi 4-1 at the Tun Razak Stadium yesterday.
The Tigers cemented the sixth and final qualifying spot from the Premier Division with the win.
From Division One, Armed Forces Juniors qualified for the last eight by becoming champions, while Bandar Penawar, Bukit Jalil and Malacca are in the running for the last spot.
The other quarter-finals qualifiers are Kuala Lumpur Hockey Club, Tenaga Nasional, Sapura, UniKL and Yayasan Negri Sembilan.
Tenaga Nasional sealed second spot and the RM40,000 cash prize.
The Maybank-Nur Insafi match went smoothly, until the 67th minute when K. Keevan Raj, a former national player, was flashed the green card by umpire K. Lingam.
Nur Insafi's Keevan then had argument with Lingam, who flashed him the red card, which resulted in the player charging at the umpire and there was chaos for a few minutes.
Players from both sides had to restrain Keevan from attacking the umpire, and the player was escorted off the pitch.
Nur Insafi shocked Maybank with a 27th minute goal by Nur Hrsikesa but collapsed when Engku Malek scored the equaliser in the 30th minute.
The other three goals came easy with Hairul Nizam notching a hat-trick of penalty corner goals in the 48th, 56th and 65th minutes.
"It was a difficult win, as Nur Insafi also had their chances but failed to convert.
"However, now that this is over, we have two weeks to plan for the quarter-finals," said a relieved Maybank coach Wallace Tan.
Maybank still have one League match -- against Yayasan Negri Sembilan in Malacca, but it is a match of no consequences for both teams.
PREMIER DIVISION -- RESULTS Nur Insafi 1 Maybank 4, UiTM 0 Tenaga Nasional 4, Armed Forces-Airod 1 Kuala Lumpur Hockey Club 7, UniKL 2 Sapura 4.
DIVISION ONE: Today: Malacca CC v Bukit Jalil Sports School (Malacca, 5pm), Universiti Sains Malaysia v Bandar Penawar Sports School (USM, 5pm), UniTen v Armed Forces Juniors (KLHA, 5pm).
PREMIER DIVISION
P W D L F A Pt
KLHC 15 13 1 1 72 20 40
TNB 15 11 1 3 46 17 34
SAPURA 15 10 0 5 43 28 30
UNIKL 15 8 3 4 27 27 27
YNS 15 7 0 8 44 41 21
MAYBANK 15 4 3 8 18 25 15
NUR INSAFI 16 4 2 10 27 51 14
UITM 15 3 0 12 21 50 9
ATM 15 3 0 12 18 57 9
DIVISION ONE
P W D L F A Pt
ATM JNR 10 9 1 0 27 7 28
BPSS 10 6 0 4 21 15 18
BJSS 10 5 1 4 24 13 16
MALACCA CC 11 5 1 5 15 13 16
IPOH CH 12 4 3 5 19 24 15
USM 11 3 0 8 16 33 9
UNITEN 10 1 2 7 9 26 5
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Nur Insafi see red, out of last eight
UMPIRE K. Lingam trying to restrain Nur Insafi's K. Keevan Raj from attacking him in the match against Maybank at the Tun Razak Stadium. Keevan was flashed the red card, and his team lost 4-1 and were bundled out of the quarter-finals.
KLHC lift League title with 2spares
KUALA Lumpur Hockey Club (KLHC) were made to
sweat for 37 minutes, before Nur Insafi cracked 5-0
to hand them their sixth League title in the Premier
Division of the Malaysia Hockey League yesterday.
Four of the titles (three League and one Overall)
came under the Ernst & Young banner, while the
other two League titles from the evolved KLHC.
The League title and RM60,000 was won with two
matches to spare, against Armed Froces-Airod
today and Tenaga Nasional next weekend.
However, KLHC must have broken into cold
sweat in the dressing room, as the score stood at
0-0 at the half-time hooter.
But former national player Chua Boon Huat gave
them a lifeline with a 37th minute field goal, his
13th this season, and forced the flood-gates open
wide.
The other goals came easy with Tengku Ahmad
Tajuddin scoring back-to-back in the 39th and 45th
minutes, while Amerullah Aziz (50th) and Ahmad
Anuar (55th).
KLHC team manager George Koshy was a little
worried initially, but a half-time lecture in the
dressing room did the trick.
"It was close in the first half as Nur Insafi had
their chances, but a 'good lecture' in the dressing
room woke them up and now we will have to work
towards lifting the Overall title," said George.
On players: "Chua and Ismail (Abu) who are both
former players, contributed immensely in our
campaign and took some of the burden off the
regular goalscorers in the national team like
Tengku (Ahmad Tajuddin)," said George.
"We expected a defeat anyway as KLHC are too
strong for any team in this tournament, and are not
overly worried, as our target is to beat Maybank
(today) and confirm our spot in the quarter-finals,"
said team manager S. Thaitchana.
The first match saw a bizzare ending as
bottom-of-the-table UiTM beat Yayasan Negri
Sembilan (YNS) 3-2 in a rain interrupted match.
Torrential rain stopped play in the 45th minute,
and UiTM were spared the agony of playing the
remaining 25 minutes because they only had two
reserves as eight players could not make it for the
match.
UiTM goals were scored by Ikmal Jabar (10th),
Rashid Baharom (33rd) and Faheed Saifullah (42nd).
YNS, who had the full squad as all their Pakistan
players had returned after playing in a domestic
tournament, got their goals off Pakistanis'
Muhammad Imran (seventh) and Shakeel Abbasi
(29th).
PREMIER DIVISION: RESULTS -- UiTM 3 Yayasan
Negri Sembilan 2, Nur Insafi 0 Kuala Lumpur
Hockey Club 5, UniKL 1 Tenaga Nasional 5, Sapura
4 Maybank 0.
TODAY: Nur Insafi v Maybank (4pm), UiTM v
Tenaga Nasional (6pm), Armed Forces-Airod v
Kuala Lumpur Hockey Club (8pm), UniKL v Sapura
(KLHA, 6.30pm).
*All other matches at the Tun Razak Stadium.
DIVISION ONE: Results -- Malacca CC 1 Ipoh City
Hall 1, Universiti Sains Malaysia 0 Bukit Jalil
Sports School 5, UniTen 0 Bandar Penawar Sports
School 5.
Sunday: Malacca CC v Bukit Jalil Sports School
(Malacca, 5pm), Universiti Sains Malaysia v Bandar
Penawar Sports School (USM, 5pm), UniTen v
Armed Forces Juniors (KLHA, 5pm).
PREMIER DIVISION
P W D L F A Pt
KLHC 14 12 1 1 65 19 37
TNB 14 10 1 3 42 17 31
UNIKL 14 8 3 3 25 23 27
SAPURA 14 9 0 5 39 26 27
YNS 15 7 0 8 44 41 21
NUR INSAFI 15 4 2 9 26 47 14
MAYBANK 14 3 3 8 14 24 12
ATM 14 3 0 11 17 50 9
UITM 14 3 0 11 21 46 9
DIVISION ONE
P W D L F A Pt
ATM JNR 10 9 1 0 27 7 28
BPSS 10 6 0 4 21 15 18
BJSS 10 5 1 4 24 13 16
MALACCA CC 11 5 1 5 15 13 16
IPOH CH 12 4 3 5 19 24 15
USM 11 3 0 8 16 33 9
UNITEN 10 1 2 7 9 26 5
DIVISION ONE
P W D L F A Pt
ATM JNR 10 9 1 0 27 7 28
BPSS 10 6 0 4 21 15 18
BJSS 10 5 1 4 24 13 16
MALACCA CC 11 5 1 5 15 13 16
IPOH CH 12 4 3 5 19 24 15
USM 11 3 0 8 16 33 9
UNITEN 10 1 2 7 9 26 5
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
