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After last week's positive and encouraging response towards the Z'Liners Women Challenge,
this week will see yet another Z'Liners competition.

The Z'Liners Open Challenge.
It's going to be held at Dalat International Indoor Hall again, 20 September 2008.
To put it simply, it's a free-for-all, men and women together.
Put the right mix of players to form your own most deadliest team.
Well, deadliest would be an overstatement.

For the UniHawks, we will have the likes of Mervin and Kevin back in the game with us.
These dinasours of USM have decided to give it another go... :P
It'll be interesting to see which of the UniHawks will go the furthest.
In any case, let's all have fun this weekend.

Hate us on court,
love us off-court, ya?
:P

It was a Saturday filled with excitement and anticipation, not to mention a whole lot of screaming. :P

The day started off with the Junior Floorball Challenge and later on with the Women Floorball Challenge.
It was going to be a long and gruelling day for most of us but the excitement kept everyone going.

In total, there were 8 women's team.
4 in group A and another 4 in group B.
The group stage proved to be an easy task for the UniHawks, soaring up to the top spot by winning every single game at hand.
The other two teams to watch out for were Innebabes and Contact Sugar as they topped the table in group B.

The UniHawks faced Contact Sugar in the semi-final round.
Being pressured for the first time in the competition, they seemed to have lost focus and could not get the shots in.
Contact Sugar played a full press game, the UniHawks were draining out on stamina.
Having won every single game in the group stage, losing in the semis would be a big blowout.
The pressure was intense.
Contact Sugar took advantage of that and scored the first and only goal of the match.
Contact Sugar went through to the finals, the UniHawks had to settle for the 2nd runner up match.

As disappointing as it was, I believe our girls played really well in the competition.
They eventually won the following match and got the 2nd runner up spot.

The final saw two teams from group B battling out against each other once more -
Contact Sugar and the Innebabes.
After a long tiring afternoon with the very little juice of energy left in your body,
it all comes down to this.

Pressure.
Tension.
Anticipation.

What will you do?



Only one thing to do-lar - SCORE!!!
Both team wants to win real bad...
All kinda peculiar moves came out... :P



The face off was brutal with uneased tension...



But only one will emerge as the champs...
Only one will celebrate...

CONTACT SUGAR!



Contact Sugar proved to be the toughest competitor, beating whatever that was in their way to clench the winning medal.
Congrats to Contact Sugar! :)



The 2008 Z'Liners Floorball Challenge Women's Champion -
Contact Sugar!




The top three teams of the competition,
Contact Sugar, Innebabes and UniHawks!



Besides awarding the top 3 placing teams, the officials have also selected the top scorer, top assist and all-star team award.

For the top scorer award, it went to none other than our very own Captain marvel, Sarah Ng!
And for the top assist award, it went to Dawn Tan, a UniHawk as well! :)


Future women national players?

For the all-star team award, the players selected were Sarah Ng (UniHawks), Valerie (Innebabes), Penny (Contact Sugar) and Sherene (Contact Sugar).



Congrats to everyone!
As the cliche goes, everyone's a winner! :)



A special note:



On behalf of the UniHawks, we would like to extend our gratitude to the following people...


To the referees,



To the officials/secretariats,



And of course not forgetting, to the ballpickers :)



JOB WELL DONE GUYS!
Looking forward for the next Z'Liners Challenge next year!



Bravo!