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<b>Sarawak</b> U-17 beat Pahang in 7-goal thriller - The Borneo Post Online

Posted: 17 May 2014 09:40 AM PDT

KUCHING: Sarawak U-17 team beat Pahang 4-3 in the  KPM League home match at the SMK Tabuan Jaya field yesterday.

Team coach Helearn Wilford believed Pahang could have been at the end of a thrashing had Sarawak not committed many unforced errors during the match.

"Our defenders look shaky and our goalkeeper looked complacent after we took the lead in the match. I hope this won't happen again in the next match," he commented.

Helearn praised his team saying all the players worked hard for the well-deserved victory.

"A victory is still a victory for us and we deserve to feel happy about it. I believe we will not create the same mistakes during the next match," said Helearn told thesundaypost after the match.

"Our next opponent can be considered quite tough and there is no way that we can win if we played like we did just now (yesterday) against Pahang. The players know this too," he noted.

Sarawak will travel to Kuala Lumpur next week to face the Bukit Jalil Sports School team in the KPM League competition which is national tournament for players of the U-14 and U-17 age group.

Only the Sarawak's U-17 team played a match this week while the U-14 team tournament takes a two weeks break.

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Posted: 04 Jun 2014 08:30 PM PDT

by Ting Tieng Hee, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on May 23, 2014, Friday

KUCHING: The Sarawak contingent are all fired up and set to mount a serious challenge at the Malaysia Games XVII (Sukma) in Perlis starting today until June 4.

Represented by 362 athletes accompanied by 158 officials, Sarawak will compete in 22 out of 24 sports and go all out to capture a fair share of the 310 gold medals out of the 396 on offer.

The state contingent are skipping equestrian and optimist sailing for these 2014 games.

"The athletes are all raring to go after so many months of preparation and anticipation," said chef de mission Datuk Lee Kim Shin yesterday.

Lee, also the Assistant Minister of Sports and Communications, said the preparation was completed with the contingent camp that ended at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak yesterday.

"Yes, we are now ready for the tough challenge ahead and some of the athletes are already in Perlis.

"Some of them especially the football and pencak silat squads had left and others are joining the state contingent in Perlis from Bukit Jalil while the foreign-based athletes will be travelling straight to Perlis," he said.

The target for Sarawak is 55 golds in order to finish among the top five teams and Lee is confident that it is achievable.

"Based on the feedback from our coaches and sports associations' officials, we are predicting a 55-gold medal haul and anything beyond that will be a big bonus," he added.

Lee said Sarawak will especially be banking on sports such as athletics, swimming, tenpin bowling, wushu, tennis, weightlifting, cycling and archery to deliver the goods.

"I am also expecting the other sports to spring a few surprises."

His main concern will be the judging in the subjective sports like wushu, silat, karate and taekwondo as judging in these martial arts sports can be controversial.

"Through our past experience, it is really hard for us to predict how well we can perform in those sports," he said.

With the majority of the athletes being new faces, Lee continued, Sukma XVII will serve as a prelude to Sukma 2016 which Sarawak will play host.

"Perlis Sukma is also a very good platform for us to gain experience and I believe that, by 2016, the majority of the athletes will be matured and experienced to pose a strong challenge for the overall championship."

Sarawak's first medals are expected to come from pencak silat which commences today at the Perlis Sports Complex's Hall Sports Partnership and the football competition will also kick off today at UiTM Perlis, Arau Repository, Pauh.

The sports starting tomorrow are cycling, men's and women's hockey, squash, canoeing and karate, followed by lawn bowls and tenpin bowling on Sunday and badminton, boxing, weightlifting, sepak takraw and tennis next Tuesday.

At Sukma XV in Pahang two years ago, Sarawak captured 42 gold, 32 silver and 38 bronze medals to finish in fourth position overall after Terengganu, Selangor and Pahang.

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Kaartic wins <b>Sarawak&#39;s</b> fi rst medal - The Borneo Post Online

Posted: 24 May 2014 10:01 AM PDT

KANGAR: Karate-do delivered the first medal for the Sarawak contingent at the 17th edition of Sukan Malaysia (Sukma) in Perlis yesterday.

Kaartic Chiramjeevi took the bronze in the men's kumite 55kg held at Sri Kayangan Hall of the Perlis Matriculation College.

In squash, Ma Si Yi and Jean Wong Zhi Xuan bowed out of the fi rst round of the women's singles at the squash centre of the Perlis Sports Complex yesterday.

Ma, a student of SMK Chung Hua Miri, lost 4-11, 1-11, 12-14 to Nazihah Hanis Abd Razak of Kedah.

Ma's schoolmate Jean provided stiffer resistance before losing 5-11, 11-8, 9-11, 5-11 to Selangor's The Min Jie.

Despite the setback, team manager Jewa Singh was satisfi ed with the duo's performance.

"Their performance is okay so far and they have pushed themselves to play well.

They are playing against higher seeded players," he said.

With the girls out of contention, Jewa is turning his focus to Afeeq Abideen Ismail and Sanjay Singh Chal who will see action in the second round of the boy's competition later yesterday.

Afeeq will take on Yuen Jee Wern of Selangor while Sanjay's opponent is Mohd Aqif Mohd Shukri of Terengganu.

Meanwhile, 2012 Sukma bronze medallist Zaranah Zulkifl ee successfully cleared her fi rst round hurdle in the women's below 57kg silat olahraga by beating Wan Nur Syafi qah at Dewan Rakan Sukan, Perlis Sports Complex yesterday.

Also progressing to the second round was Muhamad Hafi z Remmy Iskandar who defeated Mohd Zairy Mohd Osman of Perlis.

Those losing their bouts yesterday were Saifudin Sabli (men's 75-80kg), Sheikh Khairul (men's 65-70kg) and Muhamad At-Tamimi Hamid (men's 60- 65kg quarterfi nals).

However, Sarawak still have three other exponents who will compete in the quarter-fi nals of their respective categories later yesterday.

They are Munirah Daud who will take on Nur Najati Nazwah of Terengganu in the women's 50-55kg, Maliana Rajalan who will fi ght Aina Mardhiah from Perak and Norshahrizan Abdullah who is up against Mohd Alif Hanafi of Sabah in the men's 70-75kg.

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