[Sports News]”2022-23 Hong Kong Secondary School Inter-School Three-person Basketball Marathon” will be held today (8th) at Tung Cheong Street Gymnasium. In the junior group, the Outstanding Boys’ School and Heep Yunn Secondary School won the championships in the male and female groups; in the senior group, Ying Wa College defeated the previous champion Qiu Jinqiu Secondary School (Kwai Chung) to win the championship, and in the female group, Hon Wah Secondary School narrowly beat Heep Yan Secondary School by 1 point. The dream of the opponent’s academic world “after four championships” for seven consecutive championships.
Different from the grouping method of the A-B League and the C-Group in the last year, this year’s school basketball marathon has been divided into a junior group and a senior group. After a round of fierce battles in the group stage and the knockout stage, the competition entered the championship straight today. Among them, in the senior group, Yinghua defeated La Salle College 11:8 in the quarter-finals, and then faced St. Joseph’s College in the semi-finals, but it was unstoppable and won 12:4 and entered the finals. ).
At the beginning of the final, Qiu Jinqiu had a slight advantage, and Wu Zhuoxuan scored consecutive points to open the score to 9:6. However, after a timeout, Yinghua returned to the game and chased the score to 10:10 with Lu Mingqian’s free throw. Although Qiu Jinqiu relied on Yao Zhuoqian’s shot Scored two points to take the lead again, but Yinghua had Ni Jiaren step forward in the last 90 seconds and scored three points in a row to take the lead. At the end of the game, Qiu Jinqiu scored a free throw, but Zhang Baiqiao missed the final chance to equalize. In the end, Yinghua beat Qiu Jinqiu 13:12 to win the title.
Ni Jiaren, one of Yinghua’s heroes, scored the highest 7 points in the final and became the most valuable player after the game. He pointed out that the team went very smoothly in the knockout stage, but the success in the final was relatively low. Passive, but fortunately regained confidence during the timeout: “The coach told us before the game that we can do it ourselves, but obviously we couldn’t do it before the timeout, but after the timeout, the coach encouraged us more than arranging tactics , let us relax ourselves first, and then find a rhythm to respond.” When talking about becoming the champion, Ni Jiaren also became emotional: “There are three sixth-form students in our team, and this is also the last game of our middle school career. The game, just saying it like this already means a lot.”
In the senior women’s group, Hon Wah Secondary School narrowly beat Lam Tai Fai Secondary School by 1 point in the quarterfinals, and the Chinese YMCA Secondary School was eliminated by the semifinals 6:3. : 3) and Ying Hua Girls’ School (13: 7), and Han Hua entered the final together. However, Xie En failed to show its strength in the knockout round in the final. Although it took the lead most of the time in the early stage, Qiu Anni of Hanhua scored three points in a row, and once the team caught up to 8:10, which made Xie En Also in a hard fight. In the end, Hanhua borrowed Qiu Anni to score 2 points in the final stage, which spread to Ma Chuoyu’s score, and beat Xie En with 12:11.
To break the dream of “four championships” in the Xie En Academy for seven consecutive championships, Hanhua women’s basketball coach Chen Yongxin believes that in addition to the players’ normal performance, mentality is also one of the keys: “Weng Jinhua (another Hanhua women’s basketball coach) often Emphasize that the stronger you are, the stronger you are, so even if you encounter Xie En, you can’t admit defeat, but you must have fighting spirit to break through the difficulties.” She also said that the championship is of great significance to the group: “Everyone may use “Win Xie En” as an indicator, but In fact, the most important thing is to see the progress of the children.” Chen Yongxin continued: “The contribution of each person in the team cannot be ignored, so they all echo our slogan “Let’s move forward with one heart”.”
As for scoring 6 points in the final, Hanhua Middle School fourth student Qiu Anni became the most valuable player in the women’s team. She said that she could get more points thanks to her teammates “opening the way”: “Thank you teammates for your continuous defense, allowing me to attack more space , and get more points.” During the race, Xie En led by many points, and Qiu Anni revealed that she faced the game with a mentality of enjoying the game, and it was enough to fight without regrets. “This is a relatively large event in my life. It’s an honor for me to win the championship.”
In the junior group, the men’s team won Keyu Middle School 13:4 under the continuous scoring of Zheng Zhiyan, Huang Zhuoxi and Wang Jinting, and became the champion of the men’s group; as for Xie En, with 5 points contributed by Liang Ruixin, he defeated Baptist School 14:7. Xinhui Wing Lung Secondary School, after the primary group.
Pictures and text: Intern reporter Zhang Zhijie
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