HHY had a bad day and lost the crown

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

Monday, December 28, 2009

'TIS the season for giving but it is highly doubtful that was what HHY had in mind when they gifted Easyway Delima the championship match 70-62 on Saturday in the Under-18 category of the Basketball Youth Cup at the Brunei Basketball Association court in Batu Bersurat.

"I didn't think that our opponents played that well, but I thought that we threw the game away and gifted them the crown," said Denis Chee, in an interview with The Brunei Times after the defeat.

"We just played with no teamwork and we weren't in form for the match as most of the players had had too many games to play," added the captain of HHY.

The core players of the team were part of the Seri Bangar Temburong side, who took fourth place in the Under-23 category.

HHY went into the championship match as the favourites to lift the trophy. They had after all beaten the same opponents in the second round with a 77-69 triumph on Dec 19.

They were banking on their forward, Foo Gwen Tong, to lift them to victory after his 29-point performance in the first encounter.

Foo managed to topscore for his team on Saturday, contributing 16 points, but it was not enough to prevent HHY from falling to their only defeat of the competition. Read More…

Source: The Brunei Times