Youthwave Floorball Tournament

Once again, Innebandy! Co emerged champion! Ever since the conception of floorball and the very 1st Youthwave Floorball Tournament held in year 2003, Innebandy! Co has been the defending champion! Formerly known as Blazing Eagles, Innebandy! Co has been blazing with victory the past four years!
The format for this year was different. It was a 4v4 game without a goalie and a smaller goalpost measuring 60cm x 80cm in a court size of 26m x 16m. 3 matches were played simultaneously in 3 different courts. The change of format was to encourage participation from more teams and indeed there was in total 29 teams. A record breaking number in the history of Malaysian floorball! We had many new faces from the Men, Ladies and Kids category. Strength of each team was more or less even out yet with a mixture of new players and experienced players.

Men’s Category
This category would have the most intense matches with 14 teams battling it out on court to take home the Challenge Trophy. Some new faces were from the Minden Underdawgz (USM) who played very well. No sign of intimidation although they have just started playing a couple of months ago. They would have made it to the semi if not for the lost on goal difference. Another fresh team was the Salibandy! Co (a subsidiary club of Innebandy! Co) led by Mr. Deswyn Wan, (Canadien Spokesperson in Malaysia). The team made it to the finals to meet their ‘Parent Club’. Another team would be none other than our very own, Contact team, which fielded new and less experienced players. Although fresh in blood, raw in the game, Contact did not show any sign of intimidation. They played their utmost best to emerge 4th in the preliminary table. Something to be really proud of! Contact players were David Ng, Clictus Teh, Isaac Ang, AndrewNg, Joshua Lam and Kenny Khoo (the only experienced and seasoned player)!
Champion: Innebandy! Co
1st Runner Up: Salibandy! Co
2nd Runner-Up: The Young Skywalkers
Top Scorer: Chiam Ter Min (The Young Skywalkers)

Ladies Category
Once again, Contact did not manage to send any ladies’ team to Youthwave Floorball Tournament. As such, Goh Simin was ‘loaned’ to Innebandy! Co for this tournament. She played very well to win the top scorer award for the second year! With the downsizing of number of players per team, there were in total 10 ladies’ team. Ladies’ matches were not any less intense compared to the men’s. Most of the goals scored were penalty goals. Minden Underdawgz was the only new team in this. The rest were from Frontliners, Innebandy! Co, Methodist Girls’ School and 412 Unlimited. Champion: Frontliners-Roses
1st Runner-Up: Innebandy! Co
2nd Runner-Up: G12 Dashs (Methodist Girls School)
Top Scorer: Goh Simin (Innebandy! Co/ Contact)

Kids’ Category
This is perhaps the most interesting category. As the age range was from 7-12 years old, thus the kids came in various shapes and sizes. Contact Floorball School had a mixture of girls and boys in the team and most of their sizes were relatively small compared to the others. Known as team Floorball Kids, they battled it out against the ‘giants’ of other teams with true spirit of sportsmanship. Some of our other Contact Club kids formed another team, named Impact. This team did fairly well in all the matches. Champion: Dalat Eagles
1st Runner-Up: Impact
2nd Runner-Up: Dalat
Top Scorer: Nicholas Yeoh (Impact)

A record of thanks to Yeo’s for sponsoring the drinks and prizes and also the helpers from Living Word Church, Georgetown Baptist Church and Reservoir Garden Baptist Church!

Contact vs Frontliners Friendly Match

Finally the time has come! This friendly match was planned months before but due to unavailability of courts all around Penang, it took us 4 months to make the match into a reality. The last friendly match against Frontliners (about a year ago), Contact lost to Frontliners.

This time round, Contact was determined to make a good comeback! The match was held at Balik Pulau Sports Complex with proper rink boards and actual court size of 40mx20m. The court size posted a threat to many beginners for both teams. However to the more experienced and senior players, it was almost ‘heaven’!

It was not an easy match for Contact as most of our players are very young in age and in the game. But with the dedication and experiences of our Coach Edward, our presence ‘intimidated’ the Frontliners and with that, all Contact players roared their way to victory of 8-3, the final score. Thanks to Kenny (who joins us beginning of the year) scored an amazing 3 powerful angle shots for the team! The other goals were scored by Simin, Henry, Edward, Bryan and Uncle Sam.

Floorball Demo at CLS

A 2-hour floorball demonstration was conducted at Convent Light Street (Secondary) on 28 February 2007. The demonstration was well attended by students from the Christian Fellowship. The demonstration started off with Edward giving an introduction of the game, the history and rules of the game. Both Penny and Ming Hwee assisted in the introduction. The students were then divided into groups to have a hands-on of the game. The students were taught the basics of the game – simple passes, shots, and ball control. The students got ‘hysterical’ trying to go for the ball and shooting at the goal. As the demonstration was held in a hall without proper "wall", the game could not be carried out in proper manner. Despite that, the students were still participative and gave very good feedback on the game. Hopefully, this will be one game that will soon make its debut in the school!

SYN Charity Carnival

Contact Sports was granted the honour to service SYN (Steven Yeam’s Network) and Gerakan Wanita Malaysia in the Charity Carnival held on 11 February 2007 at Youth Park, Penang. The carnival was organized in aid of several homes and orphanages in Penang.
The exciting day started as early as 6am for all the SYN crew and volunteers, including Contact staff that had to set up 5 games stall. The games stalls were planned with both the kids and adults in mind. Attractive prizes and toys were in store for all who played the games. There were 2 easy stalls which catered to the kids - ‘Scoop-A-Duck’ whereby kids were required to scoop up the mini rubber ducks from the pond and win prizes. The other easy game stall was ‘Submarine Treasure’ whereby the kids were required to drop the one cent coin into the small container that was placed in the aquarium.
The other 3 games stalls were a bit more challenging which catered to adults. They were ‘The Relocator’. Players for this stall will be required to shoot the color balls with the water gun given into the designated holes within 45 seconds. There was also a ‘Dart Challenge’, and the most interesting and challenging stall was ‘Cosmic Shoot-Out’ or more known as ‘Precision Shoot-Out’. It was a game that was improvised from floorball. Players had to hit the precision balls into designated holes using floorball stick.
The day was filled with people from all walks of life. The games stalls added sparks to the whole carnival as we saw many kids and adults flocking the stalls, especially towards the later part of the afternoon where most people were done with lunch.
It was indeed a very successful and meaningful carnival as we saw young people serving and raising fund for the less fortunate. It is definitely true to the saying of ‘Service Above Self!”

Youthwave Floorball Tournament

The 3rd Penang Youthwave Floorball Tournament, ranked as one of the much awaited floorball event of the year was held at the Balik Pulau Sports Complex. Although it seemed to be a long journey from town to Balik Pulau, it did not deter players and supporters to throng the place. They were all just simply floorball maniacs!! A sure good sign of floorball development in Penang! This year, we had a new category, the Under-12 Mixed Team, so as to encourage more junior players to play floorball. 3 teams vied for the gold medals and challenge trophy, and they played a total of 4 matches each, 2 matches against the same team. Indeed it was a very outstanding performance by the kids, possibly the category with the most goals scored. Team Impact emerged Champion, while trailing behind was Sri Pelita, and Frontliners Kids. Bryan Looi (Team Impact, also one of Contact players) played very well, garnered 9 goals in the overall matches which gave him the Top Scorer award. Joshua Lim (Team Impact), with his excellent moves and good saves won him the Best Goalie award. The Ladies' category comprised 4 teams. Frontliners sent 2 teams while Innebandy! Co and G12 (Methodist Girl's School) sent a team each. This year we saw many new faces in the Ladies' category and some excellent play by the more experienced players. Frontliners did not do too well this time round, paved the way for G12 to take home the Challenge Trophy and Innebandy! Co, the second placing. The Top Scorer award went to Goh Simin (Team Frontliners B, also Contact player) with 2 goals. Although there were another 2 candidates with 2 goals scored but award was given to her based on her good play. The Best Goalie award went to Ithrana (Team G12).This year, we had a total of 7 teams in the Men's category. St. Xavier's Institution, considered as rookie of floorball in Penang did the school proud by emerging as one of the semi-finalist. However Frontliners, coupled with skillful and experienced players, beat St. Xavier's Institution with a score of 3-1 to win the bronze medals. The final match was the most interesting, one that got everybody on their toes. The final was between Innebandy! Co and MyTeam. Both teams played very well, but Nicholes of Innebandy! Co scored the final goal to make it to 3-2, a win over MyTeam. It has been three consecutive years for Innebandy! Co (formerly known as Blazing Eagles) to take home the Challenge Trophy. Looks like it is theirs to keep! Deswyn Wan and Kao Lin Ken, both from Innebandy! Co were awarded the Top Scorer and Best Goalie respectively.It was truly a great tournament, with great players, great goalies, great teams, great supporters and not to mention great sponsors. Many thanks to Excel again for their generous contribution as well as Express Systems (Pg) Sdn. Bhd., Raine & Horne and Great Jack-In for their contribution towards the rink boards. Prize presentation was held on the following day, 11/6/06 at Full Gospel Assembly, Air Itam. Players and supporters packed the place for concert, prizes and watching themselves on the video clips!