Wow..it's the year 2009 already! Another year, another dream for the Cagers to win the Hamdan Tahir Trophy and join the 13 previous Cagers team who had been the Champion. As for this year, Malaysia's former national coach, Mr. Liew Yong Choon had plan something interesting for us to play in the national-level tournament.
Well..here's a story on what happened last year while Abg Ise and Aunty Ana were on Hajj..
Malay College hosted its 2nd invitation tournament and as like the year before..it is still the champion. It started on the 5th till the 8th of November 2008. It was rather short this year as the school had allocated a small budget for us to host the tournament.
MCKK sent 2 teams last year which were Cagers A and Cagers B. The players of the A team were mostly from the top players of each form. Every team had 2 form 4s with Syai and Ajim in the team A and Mat Noor and Amir in team B..
Many schools received and accepted the invitation namely SDAR, STAR, SAS, SEMASHUR, SMS Dungun and SESMA despite the lameness throughout the tournament. Last year's tournament had to be combined with the Debate Four Corners Match. So, a lot of things can't go our way. Everything must be considered cause it's not just the Cagers tournament, it's the debaters' also.
So, back to the tournament, basically, as we all had guess, Cagers A won the cup, with the 2nd placing went to SESMA. SEMASHUR won the 3rd and 4th placing beating Cagers B. SDAR, who was expected to be in the finals lost in the 2nd round after after losing to Cagers B (well..Ghazali didn't play because of his injury a day before the match..lucky us!!). It was truly a great experience to play with other teams and to know their style of plays..Like SEMASHUR, we now know their skills as well as SMS Dungun.
1st Place : CAGERS A
2nd Place : SESMA
3rd Place : SEMASHUR
4th Place : CAGERS B
Oh yeah..there were no MVP for last year's tournament as no one could play up to the standard that an MVP would play.
After a short while of relaxing and postmorterm..Mr. Liew had brought us all up to Cameron Highlands for a holiday trip though we still played a few games. We had many sponsors that paid for our stay, there. All of them were old boys. Although we were trashed by the home team, Mr. Liew didn't take it seriously cause the games were just to expose us to a much better team. All we did was enjoy the scenery, the strwaberries, the ice-creams and the cool-windy air. All of us enjoyed the trip very much as it reduced our tenses.
But one thing we forgot was that we were going to have a match with the Prebysterian School from Singapore the day after we came back. We had no stamina, no strength, and gained a lot of weight too..they have a few national youth players aand all of them are big size!! Their tallest player is 194 cm! At the end of the game, we lost..but we didn't get to play the full game..since it was raining that very evening. And so..we head back home..to enjoy our holiday filled with trainings..
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