Brunei National Softball Tournament

Kicked off Last Sunday, 8th May, the tournament will last for approximately 3 months. Stealers were honored to be invited for the opening ceremony, Peter Lim, Our liaison representative attended on behalf of the team. Hope you guys have a great tournament this year.

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Kung Fu or Softball ?!?

Eratech Enterprise Men Softball Tournament organised by PLK Zombies Softball Club

December 16-17, 2006

We may looked cool, but we were trashed 1-7 & 1-13 by Zombies and Wanderers

Extracted from ranoadidas.com:

Coca-Cola Gunners did it again after lifting their “ummptenth” title last Sunday in the Eratech Softball title organised by PLZ Zombies. Ironically, it was the organisers that was playing in the finals against the favourites Coca-Cola Gunners. The final score was 7-2 to Coca-Cola Gunners. Captain of Gunners, Wan Tambrin claimed that the players were slightly relaxed during the final game. Earlier on Coca-Cola Gunners thrashed JAG 21-3.

PLK Zombies “A” beat Banzai in the semi-finals 6-1. Credit to them for organising a successful tournament and hopefully there will be more tournaments next year. JAG, one of the most improved team of the year, finished 3rd after beating Banzai 7-2. Sorry guys for not attending any of the matches since I had to organise my own Pro Evo Soccer Tournament. Hence, there will be no pictures unless if anyone wants to contribute, by all means

Landslide Victory is how I would describe it

Hooray !

Every Way We Go, People Wanna Know
Who We Are, Where We Come From
So We Tell Them, We Are The ST CO
The Mighty, Mighty ST CO !
And With Aplenty of Jokers Around !

They were out-classed, out-batted, out-stealed, out-witted and out everything I can think of by the St. Columba boys. SMK luak 18-2, SMK Chung Hua 18-0, SMK Baru 14-3 (Semi) and SMK Luar Bandar 9-1 (Final). The record speaks for itself, only conceding 6 runs throughout the Inter School Softball Tournament held on 16th and 17th April at Kolej Tuanku Hj Bujang.

Greg stood out amongst all as a class on his own, with 26 strike outs (average of 2.36 per inning) ! he is much more mature, physically and mentally prepared this round.

The Pitcher Supremo - Greg Pengiran

A few close friends told me that St Co won because of our superior pitching, and there's no doubt about it guys... That was the sole reason why Oilers and Stealers were trashed in Brunei, September 05 and December 06 ( more on Stealers' trip to Brunei when I'm free ). In softball, a good pitcher will relieve the burden of defense by approx. 50%, and in St Co's case, at least 75%. ! On the offensive, every player did their part well and on the hindsight, defense were not truly tested though they were well prepared for it. I did have confidence that if we use our 2nd pitcher Adam, we would have won too but by conceding more runs, but I chose Greg for the 'Shock and Awe' effect, setting new standards for the inter school competition and for the rest of schools to emulate in future tournaments.

After victory,it's time for creative posture

As for the girls team.....

The girls had a disappointed outings, mainly due to the fact that it was organized only 2-3 weeks before the tournament, reaping what we sow, SMK Lutong 9-10, SMK Luar Bandar 5-18. It was an enjoyable experience and good exposure for these girls.

at the mean time, a few of these Jenny Finch prototypes are in the R & D department, awaiting calibration, QA/QC inspection for mass production in year 2008, we shall see how it goes.... ;-) Insha Allah.

Results :

Boys : Champion : St Columba, 1st Runner Up - Luar Bandar, 2nd Runner Up - Baru
Girls : Champion : Kolej, 1st Runner Up - Luar Bandar, 2nd Runner Up - Teknik

Overall Champion : SMK Luar Bandar

Cheerio...

1st Merdeka Day Mixed Softball Carnival 2006

The carnival have successfully concluded 4 days ago, jointly organised by Stealers and Critters Softball teams sanctioned by MBSA, after 3 days of fierce competition, Gunners and S3 Gregor (11-5)of Brunei Darusalam have emerged as the Champion and 1st Runner up, Stealers and Critters (10-9) 2nd & 3rd Runner up respectively. Kolej Tun Datu Tuanku Hj Bujang emerged as the school catergory Champion based on runs rate, St Columba & SMK Lutong 1st and 2nd runner up respectively.
This event is historical in Sarawak's Softball tournament in many aspects:
1. It is the 1st Mixed Modified Fast Pitch tournament ever held in Sarawak,
2. The highest numbers of Brunei participating teams ever,
3. The 1st time with home run boundary.

On behalf of the organising committee, I would like to thank all participating teams for making this event a success, and YB Andy Chia for giving us his fullest support.

Gunners Go Divas The Champion

S3 Gregor - 1st Runner Up

Stealers, 2nd Runner up

Lady MVP -Lena Chong of Critters

Man MVP - Sofian of S3 Gregor

The Home Run King ! Abbas of Gunners

More photos will come later, stay tuned

KRP Slo Pitch Carniva, July 1st & 2nd

Critters have emerged as the overall Champion (based on runs differences), Kelab Rekreasi Petroliam (formerly KSL) 1st Runner Up and my team Stealers 2nd Runner Up of the just concluded KRP Slow Pitch Carnival. It was an exciting and fun filled 2 days for all of us, everything went smoothly except for a few disputes and arguments during gameplay which is typical of any sports tournament, nah... no Zidane sort of Headbutt stunt either thankfully!
Coincidently, The last scheduled match between KRP and Critters turned out to be exactly like a Final match ! it determined which team will end up on 1st, 2nd and 3rd of the league table. It was an exciting match for both teams and the spectators alike, and the eventual winner was Critters, Stealers was given the honor of officiating the match.
Once again, thanks to the organising chairman Syed Zul and all the KRP committees for sucessfully organising the tournament, you guys have never dissapoint the Miri softballers...

St Joe rep.

St Co rep.

AGE

St Joe

St Co

the loose cannons

Stealers Captain Max

Stealers

KRP Rep. Aaron

KRP (still waiting for your team photo la...)

The Champ !

Kevin preparing the future catcher for big event like this ;-)

without doubt, the deserving Champion Critters

KRP Miri Angels - Ladies Champion of Kuching Open

err..... Linda, why is everyone squeaky clean but you are all muddy and filthy ? Yucks

ok...ok......
I know I have been ignoring you ladies for too long , may be it's because I'm just jealous ?! of a team that never really practise as a full team, or as hard as my team, and yet mine have to go thru much dissapointments and miseries for the last few years (boys....must be all the bad karma you all earned from your foul languages ), and you girls just cruise along smoothly and effortlessly and ended the Champion three times in a roll ! Congratulation ladies... you girls made us Mirians proud.
I hope someone can help post in the comment section on all the games result of the Angels.

Taking time off from Softball...

Beautiful Patong Beach

My inlaws and me at the Molly Malone Irish Pub

My HR Queen standing in front of our hotel, Leelawadee Boutique Hotel, only 5 mins walk to Patong Beach

Got a real special deal on our flights to Phuket,Thailand. Only RM400 for me and the Homerun/StrikeOut Queen from KRP Softball Team, Miri-KL-Phuket to and fro !! about the same rate as my single Miri - Kuching airfare, pretty fantastic deal don't you think ?

Victory is Sweet & Siok !

Kuching Open Fast Pitch Softball Tournament 2006
April 28th to May 1st

Yes ! after many years of drought, Team STEALERS finally won the championship by beating the Legend Thomians by 8-5 in the final match of of the tournament. The 1st inning ended with Thomians leading us by 2-1, on top of 2nd inning, we started to crack their defenses by scoring 7 runs, mostly thru our strategic plays and a few good hits and plenty of base stealing, on the bottom of 2nd inning, Thomians scored another 3 runs mainly dued to walks as our pitcher CY was a little off on his accuracy due to the wet and muddy ground.
The scheduled 5 innings final has to be cut short to 2 by the organiser due to impending rain storm approaching the playing field and we were declared the Champ after the completion of 2nd inning.
Overall we played 6 matches in the tourney and won all of them, Semi vs KRP 11-2, Preliminaries : vs Legend Thomians 4-2, Pending A 14-2, Pending B 21-0, Josephian Flamingo 12-8.
I personally was totally satisified with my team's overall performance apart from a few mistakes during wet condition.

Team Lineup : Max, CY, Paat, Kevin, LVS, Kok Yong, Kong, Peter, Ming, San, Kent, Chris, Soloman, Totti, Fah Lee, Adam, lastly Me

Miri Division Inter School Under 18 Softball Tournament on 24-25th April

This is the St Columba Boys Team I'm Coaching, took me approximately 3 weeks to set the whole team up, 90% are new to softball, their results of 6-8 to Chung Hua and 10-2 Kolej is not too bad, only lose out of qualification to Semi match to SMK Lutong by 1 run different, hard luck boys.....
I will continue to coach them on a weekly basis, set up a few friendly for them with other schools.
Result of the Tourney :
Champion : SMK Luar Bandar
1st Runner Up : SMK Chung Hua
2nd Runner Up : St Joesph