Thursday, December 11, 2008

Pre-Season Matches vs Pioneer Sec & Greenridge Sec












Our Montfort Rugby boys have been involved in a series of pre-season sparring matches against Pioneer Secondary and Greenridge. The matches were played on 5th December and 12th December respectively.
Our C Div and B Div played a series of four matches and came away with two wins against Pioneer.
Our C Div and B Div played a series of four matches against Greenridge and managed to come away with a respectable win.
The matches are meant to give our boys much needed game time in preparation for next year's B Div and C Div tournament.
Our panel of coaches - Euan Morrison, Pan Chao and Low Feng Hua - were able to see the strengths and weakness of our Emerging B Div and C Div Squads during this series of matches.
The pre-season continues with trainings throughout the Nov-Dec holidays (Tues, Thurs and Fri) from 9am-12noon.

Four Montfortians called up for National Rugby U15 Elite Training Camp


Four Montfort Rugby players - Ariel Salim, Ahmad Danial, Harish and Mohd Nabil - were called up by Singapore Rugby to take part in the National U15 Elite Training Camp at Pioneer Sec (See above picture) on 24th and 25th November

The ultimate objective of this camp is to prepare the best 25 rugby players in the rugby-playing neighbourhood schools so that they can take their place in next year's Combined Schools U16 Team and National U16 Team.

Well done Montfort Rugby Boys.

National Sec 1s Rugby 10s Tournament @ Saints Village












Our Sec 1s were among six schools invited to take part in the National Schools Sec 1 Tens Tournament at Saints Village on 15th November. This tournament serves as a platform for Sec 1s to have some match exposure
The top schools were invited for this tournament - ACSI, RI, SJI, SAS - were among the teams that took part in this tournament.
Our Montfort boys put up a creditable fight against the elite schools and although they lost four of the five matches, they managed to come back with a creditable draw against their fellow Catholic brother school - St Joseph's Institution (SJI).
The Sec 1s who took part in the tournament were - Alvin Yap (1A1); Kenny Lee (1AA); Matthew Ho Wei Jie (1AA); Mohd Shamir (1AB); Lewis Syn (1E1); Leon Tan (1E1); Zulhilman (1E2); Dominic Daniel Kumar (1E2); Kang Dong Wan (1E3); Ivan Irwan Lim (1E3); Eugene Sito (1E3); Randell Toh (1E3); Ryan Er (1E3); Kirish Deepan (1E4) and Koh Shun Quan.
These fifteeen players has the potential to better things next season in the C Div tournament.

Monday, December 8, 2008

SCC 7s Under-17 Schools Tournament Report


Our under-17 Montfort Rugby Boys took part in the SCC 7s Schools Tournament over the 8th and 9th November weekend at the Padang.
The 7s tournament served as development tool for our under-17 team that will be taking part in next year's B Div competition.
The two day saw our boys playing five matches against the established powerhouses like ACSI. Nonetheless we still came away with a draw against Bedok Town Sec (National Top 4). We lost our four other matches.
The tournament provided good match exposure that will be useful for next year's B Div tournament.