The year is finally coming to a close and so the sports season has concluded as well.
It was a season of few highs and many lows, most of the lows coming towards the end of the year coincidentally. I guess one of the major highs of the year has to be the Woodstock Street Hockey B-Team reaching the semi-finals of the annual Mussoorie Open Hockey Tournament. Quite an achievement considering how Woodstock hockey has fared in the last few years, 9-0 to St. Georges anyone? The team had really played like they were enjoying themselves, something I personally love to see. The goalkeeping was amazing as well an Tokuji Tanaka, grade 12, seemed to be even better than a solid cement wall as he did not concede a single goal all tournament until the semi finals, where he shockingly conceded a howler of a goal to give the opposition an equalizing goal, pure evidence that the team was good enough to have even won the tournament. This was definitely a major high of the year. After that I feel the Senior boys Football team was the next high of the year. After a warm up Jackie Tournament, the team was well prepared for the hardest tournament of the year, The RIMC Football Tournament, a tournament where Woodstock has usually struggled, 8-1 to the "boys" from Rashtriya Indian Military College is never a fun game. Anyway this year the team had a very transformed look to themselves this year and were storming through the tournament, clearly the best team around. They went about their business dismantling every team they faced. They eventually met the Tibetan Nehru School in the semi-finals, going out unfortunately in a penalty shoot out which went 8-9 in favor of the opposition. A great show from the players though to even reach this far in a tough tournament. The Senior Boys Basketball team also had a good year, even though they didn't win anything. The team was predicted to be one of the weakest in recent years, but man they really proved they were no pushovers. They won every single friendly game they had this season, not only won but crushed every team with results including the famous 55-11 game against Wynberg Allen School. An awesome achievement. They then made there way down to the boiling pot known as Dehra Dun and continued there impressive playing even without their overage star player, Chris Puthiakunnel. They finished Runners up, pretty good I'd say. The lows were many more and so I will mention only the very worst. The lowest point I would say would have to be the sub-junior cricket team who played their first tournament in Mussoorie. In their very first game they won the toss and went in to bat first. They were bowled out for a shocking score of 12 runs. Ashish Peters top scored for the team with 8 runs. Really really shocking. Seems like they have definitely been trained by the Senior team who also quite a horrific year. The team felt they played so poorly at YPS that they have decided not to play the Mussoorie tournament. A tournament which was initially the only one Woodstock would go for. A huge step back for a team which was thought to be making huge strides after they won their first game ever. Another low of the year would have to be the table tennis team. Much was expected from this dream team but their results did not live up to expectations. They trained like crazy for over two months and were confident of a positive result against their opponents but,, they were defeated in three straight games, Aditya Das coming the closest to winning, very unimpressive to say the least. All in all it has been a decent season which revealed players who have tone of potential but will Woodstock take advantage of these individuals? who knows. Personally, I doubt it
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