Captain Ball League Week 2 December 2007

The Finals are finally here! While SAGC and Bangsar battle it out for the Championship Trophy, 4 teams battles it out for the Challenge Hamper! Klang-KGH (3rd place) were favourite alongside 4th placed Klang Jaya, who scored as many points as KGH but lower in ranking due to goal differences.

While Klang played bottom placed BUC for a place in the Finals, KJGH was up against BSGC for the place in the Challenge Trophy finals.

Surprise-surprise... BUC defeated KGH in extra time (the first time in the League) to qualify for the finals. To make the occasion sweeter, BSGC surprised KJGH with a normal time victory 23-20!

BSGC played well, strolling to a 9 point lead within 3 minutes and were leading and controlling the game for most part of the match. Both teams played a gorl less since KJGH had one girl less, BSGC politely obliged to play a girl less a well. From the beginning, KJGH played a very cautious game, prefering to start slow but found themselves trailing after 5 minutes of game. KJGH staged a late fightback, but it was too little too late as BSGC hung on for victory!

In the Championship Final, it was also a hotly contested match with both teams in close competition until the final victory. SAGC snatched victory, in the jaws of death, as they pulled a 2 point score in the dying seconds to edged out a bitterly dissapointed Bangsar who was leading for most part of the game. The whistle eruptted in estatic celebration from the highly competitive SAGCians...

Then came the CHallenge Playoff Finals between BUC and BSGC, the final game of the evening and for the tournament. Both teams who like to play fast attacking game began in similar style with BSGC having the slight edge in the early minutes but BUC was able to match the effort for point and quickly built up a 6 point lead by half-time! BSGC led by the loud Catcher Mr G and sharp shooting of Esther, Ted, Ian and Cheah Wei however managed to pulled BSGC back to level the points with some very determined defending by KS, Denise, Jolin and Amelia and managed to build up a 3 point lead going into the final minute. Leading by a point with 15 seconds to go, BSGC's hearts were broken when BUC managed to score a 2 pointer in the final 10 second to snatch victory away.

It was a great match and BSGC showed a lot of character with their never-say-die attitude, fairplay and non-violent reaction. Though trailling by almost 9 points at one point of the game, BSGC never gave up and gave their all and crawled back to even lead in the game. It was also fair play from BSGC with no promotion of violence and aggressiveness that mars many earlier matches by other teams. BSGC could be proud for playing a very enjoyable game at very high tempo professionally.

Great job and congratulations BSGC for entering the finals! Let's go for the champion Trophy next year!