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SportS Civil ServiCe Club 08

Through friendly competitions, the values of teamwork and hard work are instilled in
every participant. Read the stories as told by the victors!

a Slam dunk
for mha mindef S a 13-time

held at the hometeamns-JoM @ balestier over badminton chamPion
two saturdays, on 8 and 15 March 2014, the Public
H 3-on-3 basketball tournament 2014 saw
service on sunday, 24 March 2014, Ministry of defences deuce at 20-20 and later survived yet another match
badminton warriors rewrote history as they clinched
a total of 58 men and womens teams from 16 O point to win 24-22.
government agencies competing for the top spots the championship title of the Public service badminton the match was high-tension, nerve-wrecking and
in the Men and Womens categories. hot favourites tournament for a record 13th time. they have retained indeed a display of our saf core values: fighting
were teams from Ministry of defence, Ministry of the title for the past fve consecutive years! spirit, discipline and teamwork! said MaJ (Ret) sim.
education (Moe) and Ministry of home affairs it was certainly not easy feat in a feld of 65 teams
(Mha). from 29 government agencies that took part in this guest-of-honour Mr James kwek, csc executive
in the Mens category, sports singapore spring a years tournament. going into the semi-fnals, it committee Member, gave out the medals to the
winning teams.
surprise to qualifed for the fnal. however, the was a three-horse race between Mindef, Mha and
team could not match the agility of the team from Moe. Mindef fnished strongly, scoring 10 points.
Ministry of defence which eventually took the Recapping the fnals, which was held at tessensohn results
top spot. Mha and Moe were third and fourth clubhouse, team coach MaJ (Ret) victor sim said, 1st Position: Ministry of defence
respectively. in the Womens category, the Moe credit goes to our Mens active agers pair of Me3 2nd Position: Ministry of home affairs
team defeated the Mha team in the fnal, to chong Yong fat and Me3 eng fook kwan, who 3rd Position: Ministry of education
emerge champion. fought on even though they were trailing 17-20 in the 4th Position: Land transport authority
fnal set against hdb the two managed to force a
With these impressive wins, we are glad to join
Moe to claim the joint overall champion of the
3-on-3 basketball tournament, said Richard tan,
assistant honorary secretary of the home United mha (Scdf) iS the
basketball club. goal Standard

results the scdf team is proving to be formidable
womens category on the felds. it currently boasts a four-game
champion: Ministry of education (1) winning
T streak, including the championship title
1st Runner-Up: Ministry of home affairs (1) for the Public service staR games 11-a-side
2nd Runner-Up: Ministry of education (3) football tournament. these victories are hard-
3rd Runner-Up: Ministry of home affairs (3) won. the team trains twice weekly at the home
team academy and each session lasts two hours,
mens category says convenor Lta faizal kamal.
champion: Ministry of defence
1st Runner-Up: singapore sports council at the staR games, the team had a nail-biting
2nd Runner-Up: Ministry of home affairs fnal match against the Police gurkhas. We results
3rd Runner-Up: Ministry of education were trailing throughout the game, trying to champion: Ministry of home
match their insane stamina. the team stuck to affairs (4) scdf
overall Position its game plan, chasing every single loose ball and 1st Runner-Up: Ministry of home
Joint champion: Ministry of education and launching counter attacks in quick succession. the affairs (2) gc
Ministry of home affairs pressure mounted but still the players did not 2nd Runner-Up: Ministry of home
2nd Runner-Up: Ministry of defence lose their focus. it all came down to the penalty affairs (3) sPf
3rd Runner-Up: singapore sports council shootout and the fnal kick was superbly saved by 3rd Runner-Up: Ministry of education
goalkeeper ana shaik asyraf!