MALACCA: Malacca’s age-group basketball, cricket and badminton teams and players chalked up success and turned in impressive performances away from home while at the same time underscoring that respective structured state level development, coaching and training schemes have taken root and reaping dividends.
For starters, Malacca Basketball Association president Gary Tan Kang Yong was one very happy and proud man. The state girls outfit for the very first time since the competition’s inception 21 years ago captured the Lum Mun Chak Challenge Cup at the National Under-16 Basketball Championships in Kuantan.