Varsity Badminton Performs well in Tri-Meet with TCS, RSGC

(Wednesday, May 8th) – The Varsity Badminton team hosted a tri-meet with Trinity College and Royal St. George’s today. Given the format of league matches is only one fixture per “flight” (1st, 2nd, 3rd singles; 1st, 2nd doubles) that is a best of 3 games affair, competition can end relatively quickly – especially if there is a mismatch in terms of ability. The tri-meet guarantees each player at least two competitive matches where they have to play under pressure and potentially play fatigued, which is much more in line with what the CISAA Championship Tournament will be like. With both TCS and RSGC fielding solid teams, the Varsity squad was able to get in some high-quality competition. Royal St. George’s proved to be especially strong, and arguably the most entertaining match of the day was in 2nd singles where Year 8 student Alexander Chow outlasted his much older RSGC opponent in a 21-15, 15-21, 21-15 win that was truly a character performance. PJ Bujouves arrived to the match directly from his IB Paper 1 Geography exam and immediately got down to business where he dispatched his Trinity and Georgian opponents in workmanlike fashion, before exiting to prepare for Paper 2 & 3 Geography exams the following day. Christopher Chong got off to a slow start against a very strong 1st singles player from Royal St. George’s, but deserves a lot of credit for his comeback in the second game where he narrowly lost by a score of 21-23. Both doubles pairings (1st – Sharavanan Kirupakaran, Justin Zhou; 2nd Andy Wang, Dusting Yang) were pushed in their games but played well and were able to win both of their matches in straight sets. Final Team Scores: UCC 5 TCS 0; UCC 4 RSGC 1. Next up for the Blues is the return match at St. Andrew’s College this Saturday, when the Andreans will be fielding their full starting line-up.