Monday, 16 December 2013
Snooker
WIN 3-2 vs Hall 1
WIN 3-0 vs Hall 10
NANYANG HOUSE, NTU – It ain’t over till the fat lady sings;
and so it proved, as our Hall 2 Snooker team battled back from a 2-0 deficit to
complete a superb 3-2 comeback against the Hall 1 Snooker team to kickstart the
IHRG season.
This is a testament to the never-say-die attitude of our
Snooker players, and serves as the perfect riposte to any rival Halls thinking
they would have an easy game against Hall 2.
Having said so, the
game really did seem all done and dusted at the end of the first 2 games, and
with it the slim hopes of Hall 2 progressing from the preliminary rounds; such
is the fine line between success and failure.
Lee Ziyang, despite posting impressive scores of above 60 in
both matches of Fourball, was unfortunate to eventually fall to his Hall 1
opponent.
Luck also seemingly deserted our second player, Queenie Key,
for a slightly underwhelming game led to our team finding itself 2-0 down.
Our hopes thus rested on Jerico Lee’s, shoulders, and he did not disappoint, winning his game to give our qualification hopes the proverbial shot-in-the-arm.
The Hall 2 revival continued apace when Jiahao won his game
as well to level the score at 2-2.
With 2 games won on the trot, the pendulum swung, and the
momentum was now firmly in our favour.
Having smelled victory at 2-0 up, the thoughts on the minds
of the Hall 1 players at that juncture must surely have been somewhere along
the lines of “Surely not?”
Blven Chan, in his debut game of snooker for the Hall,
definitely could not have imagined that his day would end up with him in the
high-pressure clutch game, with the fate of victory firmly in his hands.
With the destinies of both Halls in the balance, Blven proceeded
to show nerves of steel to seal the victory with a solid score of 56, sending
Hall 2 into the Winners Pool.
Up next was a match against Hall 10; win, and Hall 2 would
be in the quarter-finals.
Compared to the first game, this one was relatively
straightforward, with no stirring tales of back-to-the-walls comebacks
involved.
Lee Ziyang, Queenie Key and Jerico Lee all made short work
of their opponents, who were simply outclassed.
Queenie Key was particularly impressive, bouncing back from
the disappointment of her earlier defeat to make 10 consecutive shots for a
game-high break of 25 points.
With this win, Hall 2 progressed to the quarter-finals,
where tougher challenges surely await, but the fighting spirit and excellence
displayed over these 2 games will hold them in good stead.
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