Category: 2017

Tigers Look to End Valley Streak As Kowloon’s Good Form Continues

In the Women’s Premiership this weekend HKFC Ice will be looking to parlay their strong performance against Valley Black last week into a result when they take on Gai Wu Falcons (18:00, KG V). That’s directly after Valley look to remind USRC Tigers why they are unbeaten in 50 games (16:30, KGV).

Kowloon Ladies and Tai Po Dragons are the two sides atop the Women’s Premiership Development league and they meet at Shek Kip Mei (18:00), each having played and beaten the other two teams, Comvita City Sparkle and SCAA First Pacific CWB Phoenix, who face off at 17:30 at Education University Hong Kong.

The Kowloon – Tai Po game should be competitive with both sides winning twice in the Premiership Development. Earlier this season, in the opening game, newly promoted Tai Po prevailed 12-10.

Kowloon coach Jonathan Ho believes his side are ready to rise to the occasion this time. “We’re definitely out for revenge [after losing that first match] and this is a must-win if we are going to top the Premiership Development,” he said.

“It definitely won’t be an easy match but everything is looking according to plan for us. The last two games and our overall performance recently have really boosted confidence and raised atmosphere in the team. If our players are able to maintain that confidence, we can win this round.”

“We [the two teams] play a quite similar style, aiming to play for the wings, with not so much of a forwards game. So it will be about possession and speed down the line and on the wing. I think it will be close,” adds Ho.

Ho has some injury and availability concerns. Fly half Victoria Wong Ching Hei is recovering from a twisted ankle, and remains doubtful. Full back Fung Wai Man and prop Chan Sin Ying are both unavailable. “Every match is a tight game. Our girls are rising to that and we’re building our confidence. We know we are improving but we have to keep working because we don’t have the chance to play with the top teams. When we get to the Grand Championships, I hope we don’t have a rude awakening,” Ho added.

Tai Po coach Tsang Hing Hung has ambitions to challenge the top of this league, and sees the earlier win over Kowloon as one in the bank and wants to defend that success this time out. “If we can win this game, we’ll be top of the bottom group, and that is our immediate goal,” he said.

“We’ve focused on our defence in training. Kowloon have a pretty good, multi-functional attack, with Cindy Yuen as a playmaker. She is a very skillful and smart player but didn’t play in the last game against us, so we are preparing for that. But We are also really confident in our attack and if we can organise our defence, we can win this game,” continues Tsang.

The Premiership was perhaps a tougher challenge than Tsang had anticipated. “We were a little bit disappointed to end [the first part of the season] in the bottom four. Our target was to be top four but we lost a close game against Football Club while we had players away on national duty. But being in the bottom four is good for our development. The level here is quite close, and allows us to develop some of our young girls. Now our aim is to be top of this group,” he observes.

Tsang will be without key players as youngster Lam Tim Yeung and veteran Ivy Kwong Sau Yan, as well as Poon Hoi Yan and Chan Tsz Ching are all away on national duty.

In the Women’s National League 2, leaders SCAA CWB Lammergeier will hope to take home the WNL2 Challenge Shield for a fourth consecutive week when they play eighth-placed City RFC Twinkles (4pm, HKIED). Revolution SRC, who last week took possession of the WNL1 Challenge Shield, are on a bye this week.

Additional reporting/images: hkru

Joey Yung and Twins – All, Hands Up and Dance

Celebrating their long friendship Cantopop diva Joey Yung and pop duo Twins, two of the biggest names in local music over the past twenty years, are releasing a song together entitled All, Hands Up and Dance.

“It’s thrilling that we have finally been able to join together for our first-ever musical collaboration after 20 years,” said Joey Yung. “It took us all back to some of the amazing times and sweet memories we have shared over the years. This song is a tribute to our 20 years of friendship.”

A three-day shoot at the Golden Reel in Macau saw the ladies create a music video, which will officially launch in January 2018. The song marks the first time that Joey Yung has worked with Gillian Chung and Charlene Choi despite knowing each other for 20 years.

APTBS Moments on the Edge

“Those moments when you lose control and are barely hanging on is when your body reacts without thinking, those are always the best”

New York’s ‘loudest band’ A Place to Bury Strangers return to Hong Kong this month for a concert at MOM Livehouse on 16 December. More commonly known by their initials APTBS currently are Oliver Ackermann (guitar/vocals, bass), Dion Lunadon (bass guitar, guitar) and Lia Simone Braswell (drums). Their atmospheric wall of sound-influenced blend of psychedelic rock, shoegaze and rock sounds good on record, live APTBS they are quite unique. bc spoke to Ackermann ahead of the gig.

In today’s era of instant gratification how does it feel as a band to have been around for 15 years? What has kept you together?
I think I will always write music. It is one of the things I absolutely love to do. One thing we have focused on is not listening to other people and just create the music we would love to hear. I think this is true with anything that you do. If you are passionate about it, it becomes really easy to do and push yourself because there is a hunger driving you and you are happy and satisfied with what you do. We are just lucky that other people enjoy what we want to do. We aren’t going to stop doing what we want.

How do you think your music has changed over time? Has it been an evolving process or have you made deliberate choices in music style/ direction?
The music has definitely changed very much over time. It has been a natural progression but we are always working on doing something new and that we have never done before. It makes things very interesting. Recently we have been writing a lot of songs right on the spot at a show or during practice and it really sends you through time at a faster pace making the universe of perceivable music larger and larger. The only real deliberate choice we make for our music is to make it with real instruments and not computer based equipment. The band is voice, bass, drums and guitar.

Which bands/musicians have influenced and inspired you over the years and why?
Early punk music was a big influence on me. I remember my brother once drove me around when he got his license and put in a Dead Kennedys tape and cranked it all the way up. I had never heard anything like that before. The energy and excitement was so heavy to me and completely off the wall insane. There was also a depth to the music that brought it up to even a higher place for me.

There was a point. I really love something that is beautiful and cool sounding but if it has a point then that can really touch. Also a big turning point for me was going to Art School in Providence RI in the late 90s. There were all of these really incredible shows going on all the time. Lightning Bolt was a big one for me. They would start playing from the back of the room right when the band before them ended. It was so intense and unique! They were like fuck the format. This is what a show should be and I love that.

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How does it feel to be a band that influences and inspires other musicians So many bands have inspired and influences me and so I push myself as far as I can to represent everything I have ever been impressed with and inspired by in every performance and record I make.

Looking back at your early releases, do you have the urge as some bands have done to re-record/re-interpret them and release them again – or do you just leave that for the live shows?
Nah, I don’t think that has really ever been good. Usually for song writing the best time you are going to play something is while you are writing it. You are connected to the exact pure feeling only at that time when you are in that moment.

That is part of the reason I like to record our own music. It is us who gets to use the sounds and elements of song craft to get our message across. We know it better than anyone else would and all of the elements are important to he homogeneous.

For the live shows we do get to reinterpret our past works but it starts to take on a whole different feeling and is directly responsive to what is going on in whichever venue we are at. The interaction with the crowd can change the narrative of a song and they get readapted in real time. That keeps it fresh and new and in the actual moment we are in at that time. It makes music better than anything you could ever plan. We are hanging on for dear life and the music is being played by some sort of pure raw energy.

You’ve only released four albums in fifteen years, is writing new songs an organic process with the music and lyrics coming together smoothly or do you find creating new songs hard?
We record so much music all the time but also do a lot of other things. There has to be inspiration for good songs to get written I think. But to write new songs all you have to do is actually just do it. If you are reading this write a song right when you are done.

You’re quoted as saying that your live shows are about emotion. After so many years and shows how do you keep that raw intensity and passion that make your gigs so intense and memorable?
I just personally try to push myself further than I have ever gone every single time I play. It can’t necessarily be measured like how high am I going to jump at a show but it involves being creative with what you hear and is around you and spotting an opportunity to do something different or potentially scary and just going for it.

Do you have a favourite song to play live, which is it and why?
You would have to ask me after we play them at a particular show. Usually something I am not expecting to be my favorite ends up being for the night. Also usually whichever songs get really messed up tend to be my favorite.

Those moments when you lose control and are barely hanging on is when your body reacts without thinking and those are always the best moments. I often try to destroy the situation we are in so that we have to build it back and reconstruct it as something. And at that moment, what comes is better.

Does it frustrate you at gigs seeing so many people watching you through their phone screens rather than enjoying the real event in front of their eyes?
I am not usually really paying attention with my eyes at shows so much so I can’t really tell. I am so focused on the sound and the visual aspect can shut down. I think it is really just their loss. Most shows are best experienced with the body rather than the cyborg flesh, at least for now.

With music having fully embraced digital distribution do you get the same sense of completion from releasing a digital only release, or is there a more satisfying feeling from having a physical release in your hand and seeing people buy a cd/cassette of your music? Or does the satisfaction and pleasure come solely from the live shows?
There are different kinds of satisfaction I get from all of those things. I think it is cool to have a record or a cassette because I grew up with them and they meant so much to e when I was younger.

Now it is a different age and I do listen to a ton of digital music. I like it and it is interesting but nothing is like going to a live show. Everyone must experience it over and over again. It has transformed my life and made me who I am today and I love life.

What’s next for A Place To Bury Strangers after this tour?
We have a record coming out on Dead Oceans next year and there will be many tours to come.

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A Place to Bury Strangers
Support: So It Goes
Date: 8pm, 16 December, 2017
Venue: MOM Livehouse
Tickets: $350, $290 from Ticketflap

Photos: APTBS, Selt-Titled Mag

Hong Kong secure World Cup Qualifier Berth With Win Over PNG

Hong Kong sealed their place in the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifiers as captain Babar Hayat helped his team to 23-run win over Papua New Guinea.

With the top four teams from the World Cricket League Championship progressing to the qualifiers in Zimbabwe next year, Hong Kong knew that a victory over PNG in one of their two matches would be enough to book their ticket.

They did that on the back of inspirational skipper Babar Hayat, who backed up his marathon unbeaten 214 against PNG in the First Class game last week with a match-high top score of 77 from 120 balls.

He shared 50-run partnerships with Anshuman Rath (37) and debutant Scott McKechnie (29) as Hong Kong built a strong platform at 177-3 with eight overs to go. But some accurate PNG bowling at the death restricted HK to 230 from 50 overs on what was a good batting surface.

In reply, Hong Kong got a dream start with Nadeem Ahmed (2-31) striking in the very first over. Tanwir Afzal (2-32) then struck twice more and Aizaz Khan (1-37) picked up a wicket with his first ball to reduce PNG to 4-30 in the 10th over.

But Mahura Dai and Sese Bau rebuilt the PNG innings with a 98-run stand to get the Hong Kong heart-rates rising. Nadeem provided the crucial breakthrough and Hong Kong continued to chip away through the lower order with PNG keeping the required rate under control deep into the chase.

Though eventually two run-outs in the 46th over sealed the contest and Hong Kong will now play PNG in their final World Cricket League Championship match looking to potentially finish as high as second on the ladder.

Simon Cook said after the match, “End of a long journey which started over two years ago, so to culminate now in our qualification is fantastic and we look forward to try and finish as high up the table as we can in the last game. The roller coaster nature of this game meant it was quite relieving to get off the field with a win.”

“It’s great to get qualification but there is still one game to go and there is still a chance to finish second, which is important for the sports institute points so there’s still something on the last game, ” added Cook.

“The achievement is huge, this is our first year in the top division and to come from where we were in Division 3 to where we are now, we are up there challenging, and if results went our way in the other game we would have had a shot at first place. All of the losses that we’ve had were within our control at stages and a win in one of those and that’s the difference between potentially winning this league.”

“With the population and facilities we have, this is unbelievable what the players have done against countries with far more resources and facilities. We have a young nucleus of a side and we have now retained our World Cricket League spot for the next cycle as well, which will allow them to kick on further.”

“The total we got was probably 30 runs light, we were very slow in the middle of the game in rotating the strike and the boundaries didn’t come.”

“Having the good start with the ball was crucial and then the partnership in the middle started to take the game away from us but a rush of blood from Dai saw him get caught on the boundary and that was the turning point to get us back in it and put the screws on.”

“Babar’s getting runs consistently, it was a little bit slow but it shows where he is at now in that he makes 77 and he is still a bit critical of himself so that’s an indication of how far we’ve come and that we need to do more than just making scores.”

Hong Kong 230/8 beat PNG 207 all out by 23 runs

Women’s Rugby Fixtures – 9 December, 2017

Gai Wu Beat USRC as Valley Win 50th Consecutive Game

In the Women’s Premiership Gai Wu Falcons battled to 22-8 win over USRC Tigers, while Valley Black held off HKFC Ice 27-17 to win their 50th consecutive game!

The Women’s Premiership Development league saw wins for the two form teams as Tai Po Dragons beat CWB Phoenix 22-5, and Kowloon Ladies overcame City Sparkle 20-0.

After a 17-17 draw with Gai Wu last time out and looking to go one step further, Tigers made an assured start with a period of controlled rugby including a 10th-minute attack that saw the ball passed smartly along their backline to reach Natasha Olson-Thorne, who slipped two defenders to go over. Off the restart, a penalty 15 metres from the posts was well-kicked by Charlotte Myrans, to give the Tigers an 8-0 lead.

Gai Wu improved as the half wore on, pressing USRC back and securing turnovers and penalties from which teenager Chui Kam Chi and veteran Man Po Kei collected tries as a perhaps over-confident Tigers side forwent their successful kicking tactics and attempted to play their way out of trouble.

Just before the break, winger Chong Ka Yan scored a third, for a 15-8 Gai Wu half-time lead, finding space on the left out of broken play.

In the second period, the two sides were more matched as attacks at both ends were defended firmly, or lost through errors. However one multi-phase effort by Gai Wu bore fruit when Lee Tsz Ting put Greer Muir through a gap in the Tigers line to score close to the posts, converted by Lee Tsz Ching.

Gai Wu coach Lai Yiu Pang felt he had correctly called the game. “I said that the team that made the fewest mistakes would win. We were that team, and I think this was our best performance of the whole season. We have quite a few of our more experienced players away, and so put out a young team. Our back line especially are all around 20-21, except for Candy [Cheng Tsz Ting], who marshalled them expertly, and our back three did a great job handling incoming long kicks that we could then turn to attacks,” he said.

“In the second half we made good chances, and although we let them run to our 22, we defended well and I was pleased with that,” added Lai.

Tigers coach Fan Shun Kei also took a lot of positives from the game. “We played strongly for the first 20 minutes but later in the half got pegged and then made a few mistakes, which Gai Wu capitalised on. Our players got a bit overexcited with the early success and wanted to play the ball instead of kicking out,” said Fan.

“In the second half we were a lot more disciplined, and if we had taken any of four good chances could have been pushing for the win. Gai Wu’s lineout was not great and we stole a few balls, but made too many execution mistakes,” Fan continued.

“Overall, I see big progress from last year. Then, our games against Gai Wu were one-way traffic, but this year we have a draw and a close game. We’ve added a few elements to the team. Now we just need to take our attitude up a level. We’ve got a lot of positives but we still need to improve ourselves,” concluded Fan.

In the other Premiership game, Valley Black notched their 50th consecutive win, a remarkable achievement, over three seasons. Valley scored two early tries but failed to press home their advantage and allowed Football Club to reply with three of their own, including either side of half-time, to ensure a fiercely competitive second half.

In the Women’s National League 1, USRC Tigers 2 had to be content with a two-week hold on the NL 1 Challenge Shield as they were beaten 42-10 by Revolution SRC, who face HKCC Ladies in two weeks’ time.

In the Women’s NL 2 CWB Lammergeier held onto National League 2 Challenge Shield for a third week with a 56-0 win over University RFC Ladies.

Additional reporting and images: hkru

Was Auguste Escoffier the World’s First Foodie?

Long ago – so long ago in fact that restaurants as we think of them today didn’t exist – people cooked and ate at home, the rich threw parties while travellers ate at the inn. Then along comes this little Frenchman Auguste Escoffier, so short apparently he couldn’t reach a regular kitchen stove, who revolutionised menus and cooking and created some of the first ‘restaurants’ and kitchens that bear a resemblance to those you eat at today.

Known as the Ambassador of French cuisine Escoffier, who was born in 1846, was not only an astonishing chef. He also simplified the cooking and creation of French food, devised the idea of food stations in kitchens, originated the idea of dining ‘a la carte’, co-created the Ritz Hotel chain and wrote the cookbooks Le Guide Culinaire and Ma Cuisine. For good measure he also campaigned to make it legal for women to eat in public and knew 600 ways to make eggs.

Deliciousness

That many of Escoffier’s ideas and concepts remain in use today is a tribute to man’s genius. He was also one of the first food scientists, mixing veal stock, which contains natural MSG (monosodium glutamate), with other foods to enhance their flavour and ‘Deliciousness’.

Auguste, who began working in a kitchen at 13, loved to create and is rumoured to have once said “A cook is a man with a can opener, a chef is an artist. ” Many of his dishes are still popular today including Peach Melba (named for the Australian opera star Nellie Melba), Dauphine Potatoes (for the French court of the Dauphine, which included Marie Antoinette) and Cherries Jubilee for Queen Victoria’s Jubilee.

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Michel Escoffier, the Great-grandson of Auguste Escoffier, visited Hong Kong recently to announce the launch of a new course “Disciples Escoffier Diploma in Pastry”. Michel like his great grandfather has a passion for food and wine and is the President of The Auguste Escoffier Foundation and Museum situated at Villeneuve-Loubet, near Nice, France, where Auguste Escoffier was born and where the Escoffier Museum is located. He sits on the board of both the Escoffier Online International Culinary Academy and Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts.

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Disciples Escoffier

Established in France in 1954, Disciples Escoffier International is a non-profit association dedicated to the culinary arts and upholding the legacy of Auguste Escoffier in classic French cuisine. The Association’s philosophy is to foster the transmission of knowledge, promote and teach the essence of high-quality French cooking and to further the permanent evolution of gastronomy.

Locally Disciples Escoffier is partnering with Towngas Cooking Centre to offer two professional cooking courses at their fully fitted out cooking centre in Causeway Bay. The “Disciples Escoffier Diploma in Culinary Arts” teaches aspiring Chef’s how to cook French cuisine to a professional standard – such that graduates are awarded the  “Level 5 Certificate of training in French Cuisine”, which is fully accredited by the French Ministry of Education.

The curriculum of the 580 hour course is based on the tradition and fundamentals of French gastronomy. While integrating some of the latest techniques, equipment, and plating trends, the core program is firmly rooted in the classic foundations of Auguste Escoffier’s “Guide Culinaire”, the “Bible” of French cuisine.

A new course starting this year is the “Disciples Escoffier Diploma in Pastry” which is being taught by Matthieu Godard, Master Teacher–Pastry of Institut Culinaire Disciples Escoffier and former Head Pastry Chef at Amber the 2 Michelin-starred restaurant in The Landmark Mandarin Oriental. Godard trained under French chef, Thierry Marx.

The 480 hour course offers a comprehensive training programme on the creation and interpretation of traditional, classic and regional French pastry recipes – such as petits fours, millefeuille, gâteaux de voyage. Enabling students to master classic French techniques and adapt them worldwide with a contemporary vision. As well as practical training on the advanced and creative use of simple pastry ingredients.

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Escoffier Diploma Course Information

Programme Name: Disciples Escoffier Diploma in Culinary Arts
Programme Duration: 540 hours
Course Fee: HKD$198,000 up*

Programme Name: Disciples Escoffier Diploma in Pastry
Programme Duration: 480 hours
Course Fee: HKD$153,000 up*
*Prices after discount

Starting date: 2017
Location: Towngas Cooking Centre
(9/F, Lee Theatre, 99 Percival Street, Causeway Bay)

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Women’s Rugby Results – 2 December, 2017

Premiership

CWB Phoenix 5-22 Tai Po Dragons

@ HKIED, Kick-off: 18:00

CWB Phoenix: Tsang Siu Ching, Chin Po Po, Ho Pui Ki, Chan Yan Yi, Hau Yan, Tina Ho, Tin Yan, Dora Chim, Tsang Ching Man, Ka Ling Martini Ip, Au To, See Wai June Au, Sze Ting Li, Kong ‘Koko’ Yin Ting, Ng Wing Yee, Lam Ka Wai, Ka Ki Cheung
Reserve: Chan Ka Wai, Lau Sin Tung, Li Man Yi, Lin Yin, Mo Tsz Ching, Suet Ying Lo, Wing Chi Jenny Wong

Tai Po Dragons: Ying Tung Fan, Hoi Yan Lo, Wing Yi Vincci Leung, Wing Chi Tang, Ning Yan Ng, Yin Ting Hui, Wai Kwan Wan, Tsz Ching Chan, Wing Ying Wong, Hoi Yan Poon, Cho Yan Chan, Hiu Tung Chan, Oyinlola Kim Lee, Kwan Yi Hau, Sau Yan Kwong, Ching Wa Lo, Tung Yan Chui, Wai Kwan ‘Kwan’ Li, Wai Ming Wong
Reserve: Ka Hei Kwok, Ka Man Charline Shea, Lok Ting Chan, Shea Ka Wai Charlotte

Kowloon 20-0 City Sparkle

@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 18:00

Kowloon: Yip Cho Kwan, Yuk Wun Yip, Tam Ying, Tsang Yan, Tang Sin Chi Phyllis, Yee To Cheng, Maggie Au Yeung, Jackie Leung, Ho Yee Mak, Chun Yan Ho, Tsz Ki Chiu, For Wing Florence Lee, Wing Chi Amber Tsang, Wai Ling Chan, Chu Wing Yee
Reserve: Hiu Tung Chan, Suet Lai Au, Wong Wing Gee Charlotte, Julie Wolffhugel, Lok Sze Leung, Sze Wing Man, Winnie Cheung

City Sparkle: Ka Yan Shen, Tin Yee Cheung, Ka Yan Fung, Sau Yan Lam, Yu Ting ‘魚’ Wong, Pui Yin ‘Yauyau’ Yau, Kar Man Hilary Tse, Chun Yi Annie Ng, Tsz Wing Donis Fung, Agnes Tse, Ka Ching Wong, Yuk Yan Ng, Man King Cheng, Hoi Ying Cheung, Tan Tung ‘Tanya’ Lo
Reserve: Lok Yi Tsui, Ting Edith Chak, ChoYu Liu, Kit Sze Wan, Mila Hiu Lam Pang, Shu Wan Au, Tsz Ying YoYo Lau

Valley Black 27-17 HKFC Ice

@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 18:00

Valley Black: Jasmine Cheung, Li Lai Mang Becky, Wing Yan Leung, Ching To Cheng, Deena Ravi Thinakaran, Caitlin Spencer, Karen So, Riva Brill, Colleen Tjosvold, Kelsie Bouttle, Jessica Eden, Nadia Cuvilier, Jade Birkby, Laurel Chor, Zoë Smith
Reserve: Akanisi Au Yeung, KK Wong, Aroha Savage, Shan Shan Sandra Pong, Suzanne Sittko, Tanya Young

HKFC Ice: Cheryl Gourley, Fion Got, Denise Chan, Claire Forster, Tsz Ying Tam, Sophie Short, Shonagh Ryan, Bobby Wilson, Kimberly Yuen Ki Wrixon, Corrineke Windle, Crystal Wray, Jamie Bourk, Rachel Fong, Jaime Yuen Wing Ho, Rachel Crothers
Reserve: Angelina Cheung, Manlok Tang, Royce Chan, Claire Hunter, Leung Wai Ying, aggie Wong, Nina Pirie, Paula Murcia

Gai Wu Falcons 22-8 USRC Tigers

@ Kings Park, Kick-off: 19:30

Gai Wu Falcons: Ka Shun Lee, Hoi Lam Ho, Ka Wai Lam, Debby, Sharon Shin Yuen Tsang, Tsz Yung Ching, Po Kei Man, Hiu Ki Yip, Wai Yan Pun, Suet Ying Wong, Tsz Ting Lee, Kayan Chong, Greer Muir, Tsz Ting Cheng, Kam Chi Chui, Abigail Chan
Reserve: Cherry Ng Ki Sum Ball, Hoi Ying Ku, Syreeta Norris, Tsz Tung Lee, Lai Pui Shan, Wai Ying Li, Yee Ching Chan, Wing See Chiu

USRC Tigers: Abbey Rivers, Charlotte Myrans, Wong Yuen Shan, Kristie Ka Hei Kwok, Tsz Lam Au Yeung, Wong Kai Ying, Wing Ni Siu, Maelle Picut, Jessica Ho, Lara Schats, Hebe Talas, Ka Man Nam, Bo Yan Bena Yu, Natasha Olson-Thorne, Pou Fan Lai
Reserve: Arianna Talas, Ka Po Ho, Christy Tse, Maylynn Ng, Wing Lam Ho, Wing Yan Cheung, Yuen Ting Liu

National League 1

Valley Red v HK Scottish Kukris
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 13:00

Tai Po Dragons 5-37 Gai Wu Fawkes 
@ HKIED, Kick-off: 15:30

USRC Tigers 10-42 Revolution SRC
@ KG V, Kick-off: 18:00

National League 2

City Twinkles 20-20 Gai Wu Hawks
@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 16:30

University 0-56 CWB Lammergeier
@ HKIED, Kick-off: 16:45

Police Sirens 73-0 HKFC Fire
@ Police Boundary Street, Kick-off: 18:00

Images: bc magazine, hkru