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USJ Basketball Teams With Good Progress During GAES Basketball Competition

2014-03-20

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20/03/2014

The last weekend was a huge progress for USJ Basketball Teams. The USJ Female Team had their second game of the GAES Basketball Competition against MUST. The team, that is participating to get experience for the next competitions, showed a good spirit during the match at Macau Sports Complex last Saturday (15th).



The last weekend was a huge progress for USJ Basketball Teams. The USJ Female Team had their second game of the GAES Basketball Competition against MUST. The team, that is participating to get experience for the next competitions, showed a good spirit during the match at Macau Sports Complex last Saturday (15th).


Last Sunday (16th), USJ Male Basketball Team played the dispute for the 3rd place of the GAES Basketball Competition, that started in the end of February and became to an ending this week. All the day was filled with the ceremony and final games of the competition, including the final match where UMAC was the winner and champion against MUST.

The team trained by the coach Andrew Wong played against IPM, at IPM Stadium, and won with a score of 81×66. The match was really intense, and USJ Basketball Team did their best to get the result.

As an award for the 3rd place, the USJ Male Basketball Team got a cash award. And our player Vincent Wu Ka hou (LGS – Year 4) got 4 individual awards for his great performance during the competition. The awards were:
•    Best Player of the Team;
•    Best Rebounder;
•    Best 3-points Shooter;
•    Highest Score of the competition.

Vincent Wu Ka Hou and Alison Pang Cheng Si were pointed as the Most Valuable Players (MVP) of the USJ teams.

After the game Vincent expressed his deeply happiness with the recognition for his work as one of the best players of the competition. According to him the team developed a lot during the competition and he hopes that they go even further next year. According to the media, the semi-final game between USJ and MUST (on 9 March 2014) could be considered as a proof of the real basketball among all the GAES competitions, considering that was a really disputed match where the winner was known just in the final minutes.

We would like to congratulate all the students that where part of this great winning for USJ!

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Video: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=290052221144641
Macau Daily News (in Chinese) http://news.qoos.com/%E6%BE%B3%E5%A4%A7%E7%99%BB%E2%80%9C%E7%A7%91%E2%80%9D%E4%B8%89%E9%80%A3%E5%86%A0-1646638.html