FANTASTIC & AWESOME ! ! !
These are the 2 words I can find in my dictionary to describe the experience we had for the past 4 days in The Beautiful and Majestic Brunei Darussalam, some of my players even had the chance to shake hand with Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah at the Mall ! what more can we ask for ?
We arrived at approximately 10 pm at the Berakas Sports Village on thursday night, the Chairman of Gunners Softball Club, Major Wan Mohd Tambrin Shah and Arifin were there to make sure our accomodations are in order, the only problem we had was the washroom is 3 miles away !! ( that was a good one, Wan J ) thereafter, we proceeded to The Chairman's house for a delicious dinner and given a tour of the opulent setting of his house in preparation for his sister's wedding ceremony the following day.
Friday morning, we arrived at the Menglait Field early, our first impression was exactly like how Kevin descibed it, 'Shell Shocked', I was saying to myself, ' Goosshhhh..... how does a nation without softball activities for 8 years suddenly come out with so many teams ?', and all of them looking like professionals with beautiful jerseys and pants with the exception of St Andrews School, majority are good fielders and batters, almost all teams have an average of 2-3 good pitchers, the best pitchers are in Zombies, Gunners, Black Arrow, Banzai & Wanderers.
The 1st Match against SAS was an easy cruise for us, we scored 28 - 0. Our 2nd match on friday was against Wanderers, we loss by 5 - 7, when it was our turn to bat at the bottom of 3rd innings, we were so confident we could beat them, we were truly shocked when the umpire declared time and game, all these while we chose to take the field 1st as we thought the inning should be played to completion when time is called, as there was no printed local rules given to us and all clarifications were done verbally, I guess there were some serious miscommunication between me and the Chief Umpire, but we learnt our lesson well and took batting 1st from then on. Our 3rd match against Redskins was a smooth ride, we played the game under drizzling rain and the final score is 13-2. We loss our 4th match against Sluggers by 3-5 for reasons to be known only by our team members. Our quarter final match on sunday morning was against Zombies, who eventually rise up to be the tournament Champion, we loss to them by 2-6. Overall, I have to commend on my players for their excellent performance and endurance throughout the whole tournament, I'm so proud of you guys, give yourselves a good pat on the back for a great job well done !!!
On behalf of Miri OILERS, we wish to thank the Chairman Wan Mohd Tambrin Shah, Arifin, Pg. Musa, Hadi and rest of the committee members and softballers, who we came to know by sight but not names, Thank You very much for the hospitality and support provided to us during the duration of our stay in Brunei. We are looking foward to meeting you again, if there's any unpleasant feelings caused by us during the tournament, please accept our sincere apology, Maaf Zahir dan Batin. Assalaamu' Alaikum.
p/s : detail scores and pictures will follow pretty soon, stay tuned !!
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