Thank You!!

A great BIG SHOUT OUT!!! to all who helped make this tournament a great success. To all the teams that participated, the referees, the supporters and all the amazing people who helped at the table with the timing and keeping score throughout the two days of competition and to Dalat International School for allowing us to host this tournament. We couldn't have done it without you.

The Saintz FC guys did me proud the day of the tournament....they were a little on the early side coming in for the LDFC and I put them to work and without hesitation they stepped up and completed the task of setting up the boards and taking out the Futsal goalposts from the gym.

Their "never say die" attitude throughout the games would have also made their coach Jason Chan Ming Hwee very proud too. Fairly newcomers to the game of floorball, yet it never stopped them from putting their best foot forward. It was a rocky start as they faced off against giants Subang Rascals, but eventually found their footing by the end of the day when they played Ztec 8cers and only conceded two goals. Great finish guys!!

Labour Day Challenge Top Scorers

Congratulations to our Tournament Club Top Scorers

Dennis Thulin - Subang Rascals - 8
Loh Jo-Wyee - Ztec 8cers - 7
Deswyn Wan - Dalat Sparx - 4
Drew Steiert, Riley Mahoney, Norman Kiehl - Dalat Eagles - 3 each
Pheng Sheng - Ztec Phoenix - 2
Algin Tan Chun Liang - Saintz FC - 1


Also congratulations to all the rest who also scored but didn't quite make it to the "Top Scorers" table.

Labour Day Challenge - Semifinals & Finals

Day 2

Semifinal 1
8cers x Eagles 2-1

Semifinal 2
Rascals x Sparx 3-1

3rd & 4th Placing Match
Eagles x Sparx 1-2

1st & 2nd Placing Match
Rascals x 8cers 5-2

5th Place - Ztec Phoenix
6th Place - Saintz FC

Labour Day Challenge Round Robin Results

Round 1
Eagles x Ztec 8cers 0-5
Saintz x Rascals 0-10
Phoenix x Sparx 0-0

Round 2
Sparx x Saintz 2-1
8cers x Phoenix 6-1
Rascals x Eagles 1-1

Round 3
Phoenix x Rascals 0-4
Saintz x Eagles 0-10
8cers x Sparx 2-0

Round 4
Rascals x 8cers 0-1
Eagles x Sparx 0-1
Saintz x Phoenix 0-2

Round 5
Phoenix x Eagles 1-1
Sparx x Rascals 0-1
8cers x Saintz 2-0

Labour Day Challenge Teams

Saints FC (SXI)
Michael Cheah - Team Manager
Ong Ray Gan (GK)
Chung Wei Jian (C)
Howard Ooi
Ezra Lee Zhen Xiang
Tan Lip Chen
Cheong Min Young
Algin Tan Chun Liang
Daryl Ooi Joon San
Brandon Lee
Tan Eik Hong

Subang Rascals
Suresh Subramaniam - Team Manager/ Player
Alvin Lee Kuan Piaw - (GK)
Matts Dennis Thulin - (C)
Alvin Lee Jin Aun
Gan Bing Hock
Hendrik
Shawn Sparling
Connor Sparling
Ladislav Stehlik
Sathian (Snake) Gunasekaran
Sasitheran Gopalan

Ztec Phoenix
Chiam Ter Min - Team Manager
Tham Yung Ming - (GK)
Lim Teik Hong - (C)
Yang Wei Jin
Gim Hoong
Jack Lee
Hooi Chern Harng
Peng Sheng
Samuel Ong
Calvindev Singh
Daniel
Ruth Chua
Oon Ren
Yuh Ting
Daniel Boey
Kok Hui

Ztec 8cers
Chiam Ter Min - Team Manager/ Player
Oliver Cedric Dominic - (C)
Choo Choon Han - (GK)
Tio Leo Nard - (GK)
Yeoh Jun Wooi
Wong Joon Han
Mohd Hafidz
Sjaiful Annuar
Moy Wei Sern
Amos Lim
Loh Jo-Wyee
Adrian Koay
Daniel Cheah
Wong Ken Wye

Dalat Eagles
Jason Selvanayagam - Team Manager
Edwin - (GK)
Drew Steiert - (C)
Reagan Mahoney
Ben Weidemann
Michele Prestidge
Jason Kimball
Norman Kiehl
Riley Mahoney
Kyle Ladner
Kerry Mahoney
Brian Weidemann

Dalat Sparx
Jason Selvanayagam - Team Manager/ Player (C)
Kao Lin Ken - (GK)
Steve Liss
Noralea binti Adzhar
Anatasha Lee Nor binti Ibrahim
Ricky
Andy Goh
Allan Goh
David Toh
Joshua Thorne
Deswyn Wan

Dalat Floorball Carnival

Dalat International School will be hosting their first floorball tournament for the year this May.

Labour Day Floorball Challenge
1st & 2nd May, 2009
Venue: Dalat Gym

U16 4 on 4 Junior Floorball Challenge
23rd May, 2009
Venue: Dalat Gym

If you'd like more information or to register your team please jselvanayagam@dalat.org.

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!!!

Everyone must be wondering......."boy what a joker this guy is, from weekly blogs to suddenly completely nothing." The truth is I've had my password set to auto start on my computer and when it crashed I for the life of me couldn't remember what it was until yesterday when I was rummaging thru all my junk in my office........lo and behold, I come across a piece of paper that I had scribbled on. There it was, the site name, password and e-mail link. I tried it and sure enough, were back in business.

I was looking at the last posting and nearly a whole year has gone by........10 months just short of two days. Thankfully that won't happen again. There's so many other blogs out there I was thinking that I should just discontinue this one at first but then again this is our Dalat blog and our opinion does matter. We're a minority group here on the island but we're still a voice.

Like I said earlier, we're back and if you'd like to drop us a line or story feel free to e-mail us or chat with us.

By the way, the borakborakfloorball guys have started updating scores from the APAC 2009 in Korea, so drop by their site from time to time to catch some of the game updates.

Malaysia didn't fare so well in their first game against Japan, 14-1. We haven't seen that sort of a score line since the 2004 WFC in Spain. But we still want to remember them as they represent our country and encourage them to hold their heads up high and fight even harder as they represent us. ALL THE BEST BOYS!!!