First of all, my sincere apologies for taking this long to come up with the first post.But I guess,u guys aren't mad @ me for that.Anyway, moving on....... The PDBA u-18 championship was conducted recently and as expected,Sharpshooters did well in both the boys and the girls section.
The boys team reached the semi-finals and the girls team reached the pre-quarters.The fact that this is the first time when a team from PCMC area has reached the semis of a PDBA tournament is the icing on the cake.Though the girls team couldn't hold their nerves in their P-Q/F match and lost a closely contested match by just a solitary point,the boys team held the upper hand throughout their pre Q/F fixture against their local rivals and nemesis Negians(Nirmal Bethany).This win meant that they had to face the home team New Youngsters in the quarter-finals.One would expect the home team to give some tough fight in the fixture.But the final score didn't prove so and Sharpshooters defeated the home team in a pretty lame affair.In fact,I wouldn't be wrong in saying that the visitors didn't even break a sweat.Such was the dominance of Sharpshooters and thus they booked a spot in their first ever semi-final of a PDBA event.The semi-final was always a tough affair as it was against the defending champions Deccan Gymkhana.Still Sharpshooters managed to play neck to neck in the first quarter but then slowly lost its weight in the match.Eventually Deccan won the match one-sided.
While many factors could be attributed to the loss of both the boys and the girls teams,there are a whole lot of positives to be taken from the tournament.One of them is that the boys' playing five had two players from the u-16 team while the opponents had everyone from u-18 .Similar is the case with the girls team where except one player,the rest still haven't completed their 10th.While these aren't excuses,these can't be overlooked also.
These results are a great boost to a club which is steadily climbing up the ranks in the city and give a good indication of what the club aims to achieve.While this tournament gave a significant amount of exposure to the players, they have their eyes set on going one step further in the upcoming PDBA u-16 tournament.All I can say is "All d best,Sharpshooters!!!"
The boys team reached the semi-finals and the girls team reached the pre-quarters.The fact that this is the first time when a team from PCMC area has reached the semis of a PDBA tournament is the icing on the cake.Though the girls team couldn't hold their nerves in their P-Q/F match and lost a closely contested match by just a solitary point,the boys team held the upper hand throughout their pre Q/F fixture against their local rivals and nemesis Negians(Nirmal Bethany).This win meant that they had to face the home team New Youngsters in the quarter-finals.One would expect the home team to give some tough fight in the fixture.But the final score didn't prove so and Sharpshooters defeated the home team in a pretty lame affair.In fact,I wouldn't be wrong in saying that the visitors didn't even break a sweat.Such was the dominance of Sharpshooters and thus they booked a spot in their first ever semi-final of a PDBA event.The semi-final was always a tough affair as it was against the defending champions Deccan Gymkhana.Still Sharpshooters managed to play neck to neck in the first quarter but then slowly lost its weight in the match.Eventually Deccan won the match one-sided.
While many factors could be attributed to the loss of both the boys and the girls teams,there are a whole lot of positives to be taken from the tournament.One of them is that the boys' playing five had two players from the u-16 team while the opponents had everyone from u-18 .Similar is the case with the girls team where except one player,the rest still haven't completed their 10th.While these aren't excuses,these can't be overlooked also.
These results are a great boost to a club which is steadily climbing up the ranks in the city and give a good indication of what the club aims to achieve.While this tournament gave a significant amount of exposure to the players, they have their eyes set on going one step further in the upcoming PDBA u-16 tournament.All I can say is "All d best,Sharpshooters!!!"
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