YCKC Youth Girls make CAPTAIN'S BALL HISTORY!!

The 7th of September was a momentous day my friends, for this was the day that the (yes, you've already read it in the title) YCKC YOUTH GIRLS MADE CAPTAIN'S BALL HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It started off like any other captain's ball session, with a prayer (by Lam) at the beginning to commit the games into the Lord's hands, and to ensure that church property would not be abused (!!) . After two scintillating rounds of mixed teams captain's ball, the guys (**names changed to protect identity), comprising of Yearnie, Quek, Cement, Blandon and Zek, felt like they needed a challenge, AND BOY DID THEY GET ONE.

It was **Quek's idea to have a final guys vs girls game to shake things up a lil before we ended the session. At first, we debated about the merits and demerits of having such a seemingly unbalanced arrangement, with some of us girls concluding that perhaps the boys wanted an ego boost of sorts if they should succeed at beating us.. and the idea was almost canned completely. But eventually we were all sporting enough to go with the arrangement given that the girls could have 1 guy on our side (we were outnumbered by the boys 6 to 4!) Gracia promptly chose Daryl (for strategic reasons), and with that, the game began!

With Daryl (very surprisingly) NOT playing the captain's role of catching but in defence, Gracia in defence/mid-court, Sylvia and Edna up front and Ethel catching, the girls found themselves an UNSTOPPABLE FORMULA! Sealing the first 4 goals to bring the scoreline to an incredible 4-0 within the first 7 minutes of the game, we felt like we could have gone onto the final score of 10 goals (first team to 10 goals would win) without conceding, but alas, the boys eventually hit one back, and then another to bring the score to 4-2! (once they did, **Yearnie let out a classic me-tarzan-you-jane-like OOOGGHH *ALPHA MALE FIST PUMP*)

As the game went on, there were many thrills and spills : thunder-balls, hits and misses, flailing limbs and such, and we even suffered one injury! In the midst of a particular limb-flailing ball scramble, Jocelyn skidded/tripped and hurt her big toe! As a result she had to sit out for the rest of the game (GET WELL SOON JOCELYN!!) NONETHELESS, the girls still pushed on UNFAZED and continued to play with all their might in order to secure the victory and make CAPTAIN'S BALL HISTORY! AND THAT, WE DID!!!

As the goals kept coming, the girls held the boys out with a constant two-goal difference, and we eventually hit 10 GOALS to WIN THE GAMEEEE!!! In that instant that the final goal was scored, time seemed to slow down as the boys crumpled to the ground letting out long low moans of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, and the girls jumped up with ecstatic fervour screaming out triumphant yells of YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and running around high-fiving and hugging each other as though we had just won the world cup. IT WAS A GLORIOUS MOMENT.

But credit shall and must be given where it is due. DARYL: YOU ARE THE MANLIEST MAN!!!!!! We girls couldn't have done it without your quick reflexes and assists!! *BANNER: WE LOVE YOU DARYL!!! (don't listen to the other guys' taunts!!)
And also, BOYS: you guys played very very excellently yourselves. Praise God for your athleticism and for being so accomodating and sporting about it all!

Thus concluded a very excited, thrilling and HISTORY-MAKING day in YCKC, why, in THE SPORTING UNIVERSE! But yes, as **Quek cried out, "WE (the guys) SHALL LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY!" :D
.... in the most friendly of ways/matches of course. :)

God's love and blessings be on all of you, as we thank Him for another fun-filled day of sport and fellowship. :)