Pubz Comm Reporter: N Puneeth 

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20^th January 2008: Well, our hall which was so used to playing hockey all these years suddenly had to shift to a new sport, Floor ball, in the middle of last semester and today was the judgement day: all the hard work the girls put in all these weeks and months was going under the scanner today.

The format of Floor ball, just like that of hockey, is that of a league, or a “carnival sport” as it is called.

First up we were against a formidable opponent in the form of Eusoff hall. Our Team had very little experience playing together so this was a very tough team to face first up. But our girls led by their every bubbly captain Esther took to court at about 930AM on a sunny Sunday morning at MPSH6.

The atmosphere was absolutely electric at the venue.  Our team got off to a good start but our more physical and numerically superior opponents soon got into their stride and started threatening our defence. Still, stubborn defence on our side ensured that we started well. But as the match wore on, Eusoff started finding more space and started scoring at will. Their offensive runs were very effective and we ended up conceding 7 goals in the end.  However, it is worth noting that we also managed to pull back two goals. Finally the first game of the day finished as a rude awakening in the form of a 7-2 defeat, but as someone said, you learn a book worth of knowledge from a defeat but only a word from success. Naturally the game proved to be a stimulus for the upcoming matches.

Next up were Kent Ridge Hall which, braced with quite a few Inter-varsity players, was a real tough nut to crack. But the adversity seemed to bring the best out of our girls. They fought hard for the ensuing half an hour and put up a very brave display. We narrowly lost out to KR 3-1 in the end.

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See the other Floor Ball prelim match in previous post.