Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

The Emperor would just like to wish Selamat Hari Raya and Maaf Zahir Batin to all Muslims out there not to mention those who play basketball, too. To our seniors, old boys and teachers. Also to Abg Ise and Aunty Ana.

Hope this Aidilfitri will soften our hearts to forgive each other... May Allah bless all of you...

Under-15 Invitation

MCKK has invited numerous basketball teams of their school for an Under-15 basketball championship. 8 teams will be competing against each other for the Board of Governors Trophy. It will be held on the beginning of the end-of-the-year school holidays which is on 8th of November till 11th of November. They repaired the old and cracked New Hostel court in order for the competition to run smoothly.

MCKK sent three teams. The first team is the MCKK L or Cagers Liew, is a team fully trained by Mr. Liew, consists of four form 3 players namely Shai, Azim, Amir and Muhd Noor, Am, Rohaizad, and Ammar who are in form 2 and the Form 1s namely Iqbal, Afiq, Syafiq, Hisyam. A form 4 was put in just to fit in the team. While the other team,MCKK I,or as they call it, Cagers Ise, consists of of 8 form 2s namely Hilmy, Izzat, Syafiq, Shah, Zaki, eL, Hijazi and Farid. It also includes Nik and Zulnurain from form 1. 2 other form 4s were selected to join the team as well. Lastly, there's MCKK C or Cagers Jimmy, a team conducted by Mr. Azmi Jimat and Qassim Mohamad. The Form 3s who are in this team are Badwi, Indra, Fauzi and Redha. Haziq and Ikmal were the only form 2s to enter Cagers J. The other 6 are the form 1s.

Mr. Liew, Abg Ise and Aunty Ana invited many schools to this tournament based each teams' potential of becoming good basketball teams.

These are the teams who came:
Sekolah Menengah Sains Dungun
Sekolah Tunku Abdul Rahman (STAR)
Sekolah Menengah Sains Sultan Mahmud (SESMA)
Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah (SAS)
Sekolah Menengah Raja Tun Azlan Shah (SERATAS)

The MCKK basketball team will also sell competition goodies such as t-shirts and balls. Hopefully, the competition will run smoothly without any obstacles.

The Malay College Cagers

Every year, the Malay College Basketball team will select 15 players who will represent the college for the Hamdan Tahir Trophy in the HKSBP. This team is named the MC Cagers. For 33 years, this team has represented college, and won it for 12 times. MCKK has and still holds the record of being the master in SBP basketball. The largest win was the 2007 PHT Final when the Cagers crash and trash the tough SASER (Seremban Science School) with a a score of 103-62. But that was not the highest margin ever created by the Cagers. So far, the record was made by the 2006 Cagers which won the championship with 44 points ahead from the opponent. The score was 81-37.

Who could have made this team glory and champions if not for Mr. Liew Yong Choon, the current coach of the team. This ex-police officer has been handling and coaching the team for more than 20 years. He was the only coach to have guide and lead the way for the Malaysian team to victory during the '89 SEA Game.
He left the team for about 10 years and came back in 2003. With the help of Mr. Ihsan 'Ise' Ismail from the class of '80, they manage to establish a project called the Quest 4 Glory to return and claim back their title as champions. Their target was to win the tournament in the year 2005 in conjunction with the 100 years celebration, but the team was too good for that and won it 1 year earlier.

The MC Cagers were thankful enough to have this kind of coach. Although strict is usual, but they got to accept it. Next year team looks like winning team but who knows, luck and fate may change. All that they can do is try their best and pray for their success.

In the year 2010, InsyaAllah, most of the 0610 Emperors will be selected as the Cagers '10. Our goal is to win more championships especially the MSSD and to create a whole new record in MCKK, SBP and Malaysia. We also want and would like to maintain the college team title as the 'king of SBP basketball' Hopefully that will come true. Wassalam.

hilmyhakim
110th member of 0610
class of 10
emperor 5