Story by Joash Chow/Red Sports. Photos by Jared Chow and Joash Chow/Red Sports. RI’s Ernest Matthias Yap (#6) dives over to score his team’s second try. (Photo 1 © Joash Chow/Red Sports) Jurong West Stadium, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 — Raffles Institution beat a spirited Anglo-Chinese Junior College 17-3 to make it to their seventh straight final of the National School Games ‘A’ Division Rugby. The game started promisingly for ACJC as Noah Oey (ACJC #11) gave his team an early 3-0 lead through a penalty goal in the third minute. Raffles soon responded with a try by Luke Chai (RI #7) in the 10th ..read more

Story by Joash Chow/Red Sports. Photos by Jared Chow and Joash Chow/Red Sports. ACS(I)’s Hayyan Darwish (#6) sprints to the line to score his second try. (Photo 1 © Jared Chow/Red Sports) Jurong West Stadium, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 — Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) put on a clinical display to put Saint Andrew’s Junior College away with a 66-0 win in the first semi-final of the National School Games (NSG) ‘A’ Division Rugby 2024 Season. ACS(I) opened the scoring within the first minute with a half-field effort from Russell Lim (AC #22). Captain Isaac Chow (AC #9) converted to take the lea ..read more

Story and photos by Joash Chow/Red Sports St. Andrew’s Ashton Lim (#9) grounds the ball to score his team’s third try. (Photo 1 © Joash Chow/Red Sports) Jurong West Stadium, Thursday, 25 April 2024 — St. Andrew’s Secondary School will be hoping to retain the National School Games B Division Rugby cup after defeating Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) 31-0 in the semi-final. St. Andrew’s took little more than a minute to open the scoring. A well-coordinated kick behind the Barker defence led to a try finished in the corner by winger Eldric The (SA #27). ACS(BR) were in a good position to resp ..read more

Story and photos by Joash Chow/Red Sports ACS(I)’s Ethan Lim (#2) breaks off from a lineout maul and takes on RI’s Gregory Wee (#30). (Photo 1 © Joash Chow/Red Sports) Jurong West Stadium, Thursday, 25 April 2024 — Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) have made it to the National School Games (NSG) B Division Rugby final after a commanding 46-7 defeat of RI in the first of two semi-finals. The game was held scoreless for the first quarter despite Independent spending much of that time in the Raffles half. It was a resolute Raffles defence that prevented ACS(I) from scoring when the boys from D ..read more

Story by reader Chng Nai Wee Brandon (ACS 2011) challenging for the ball against ACS 2000.(Photo 1 courtesy of Chng Nai Wee) The Cage, Turf City, 28 August 2023 – Two years of enforced rest by the spoiler Covid virus only added to the restlessness among the Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) alumni as seven cohorts battled for bragging rights at the 2nd ACS Knights Eagle Eye Inter-year Soccer Tournament. With a video-cameraman and a photographer on site to record the proceedings for posterity, the event was bigger and flashier. Once again, the organisers were thankful to William Kristanto (ACS 2000 ..read more

Story and photos by Iman Hashim/Red Sports. Statistics powered by Erwin Wong/Red Sports ACS(I)’s Sean Russell Tay (#71) brought his team from 5th to 1st on the anchor to clinch the C Div boys’ 4x400m relay gold. That sealed his fourth win at the meet having won the 200m, 400m and 4x100m relay, emerging as the only quadruple gold medalist this year. (Photo 1 © Iman Hashim/Red Sports) National Stadium, Friday, April 28, 2023 — As 400m-400m hurdles champion Caleb Loy anchored Raffles Institution (RI) to the A Division boys’ 4 by 400 metres gold in the final event of the meet, a successful campa ..read more

Story by Shenn Tan/Red Sports. Photos by Shenn Tan/Red Sports and Jared Chow/Red Sports. RI’s Enzo Senna McCully (RI #21) reaches for the line to score the final try of the match. (Photo 1 © Shenn Tan/Red Sports) MOE (Evans Road) Stadium, Monday, 8th May 2023 — Raffles Institution ground down Anglo-Chinese Junior College in the A Division rugby semi-finals on Monday, running away in the second half to finish 45-6. This is the first A Division 15-a-side rugby season in 3 years — the Covid-19 pandemic cancelled the 2020 and 2021 tournaments, whereas 2022’s NSG was played in the 7s format in or ..read more

Story by Joash Chow/Red Sports. Photos by Jared Chow and Joash Chow/Red Sports. ACS(I)’s Jeremiah Williams (#8) streaks away to score a try. (Photo 1 © Joash Chow/Red Sports) MOE (Evans) Stadium, Monday, 8 May 2023 — Reigning champions Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) secured a place in the final of the National School Games A Division Rugby, overwhelming Saint Andrew’s Junior College (SAJC) 62-0. Rugby has returned to its full 15-a-side format across all divisions after a 3-year hiatus owing to the prevailing Covid-19 national guidelines at the time. Building on their last outing against ..read more

Story and photos by Iman Hashim/Red Sports. Additional reporting by Erwin Wong/Red Sports St. Patrick’s School’s Viresh Kumar clinched the B Div boys’ high jump gold with a personal best clearance of 1.90m. (Photo 1 © Iman Hashim/Red Sports) National Stadium, Friday, April 28, 2023 — Having already surpassed his 1.85-metre personal best twice as the field was whittled down to two in the B Division boys’ high jump final, Viresh Kumar could have easily been content with his showing even as he was trailing in the contest for gold. But there was no barrier too high for the bullish St. Patrick’s ..read more

Story and photos by Iman Hashim/Red Sports Faith Zhen Ford (#193) of VJC set a new championship record in the A Div girls’ 1500m final stopping the clock at 4:52.41. (Photo 1 © Iman Hashim/Red Sports) National Stadium, Friday, April 28, 2023 — She had set a new schools national record in the 3000 metres two weeks earlier, but moments before she toed the start line in the A Division girls’ 1500m final, Victoria Junior College (VJC)’s Faith Ford had niggling doubts about taking down the event’s 24-year-old electronically-timed record of 4 minutes 54.02 seconds held by Rahmah Begum, and Zhang C ..read more