Saturday turned out to be a good day - RD ending up SIBL Saturday League Champions!

For most of that day I was really focused on my parent's departure from Shanghai rather than whether my team was to win any matches.

We played 2 games. Firstly, a tight match against Santa Fe - probably the favourites for the title. Our team played really well, and we controlled the match throughout after establishing our game-winning lead early in the match. Everyone on our team really clicked during that semi-final and we executed our strategies really well (i.e. give Josh the ball, and play D).

We ended up playing Formosa in the final. We weren't as switched on during that match, and after establishing a very handy lead before half-time, we saw our offense dry-up during the second half when Formosa switched to zone. We couldn't buy a bucket. This let Formosa back into the match. Everything was quite tense, and it came down to tied-scores at full-time. During the 3 minutes of over-time, both teams were hesitant, waiting for the other team to slip up. Well, Formosa slipped up with some loose passing under defensive pressure and we came out as the victors. :D

I was pretty happy coming out of these games. From our first season, RD was 0-7, but made the semi-finals in the play-offs (again knocking out the top-ranked side). This season, we ended up 4-3 in the regular season (after a 0-3 start). Our final win also caps off a 7-0 unbeaten run. Tidy. On top of this, I displayed some form and was pretty happy with the way I played.

The team celebrated firstly on court with lots of the sponsors product (Cleaning Solutions, I kid not), and then at the Big Bamboo with a few coldies.

Some more photos from the games are posted on my Flickr page.

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