 Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 – Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) were given a lesson in netball by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) despite the match going off to a slow start. With both teams being slow in settling down, play was sloppy though there was a lot of off-the-ball movement.
After about ten minutes, NTU finally appeared to have gotten their footing in the game and managed to score a point. The NTU team building up her momentum, managed a smooth passing flow between teammates. The result is another ball through the hoop. SIM, besides scrambling for the ball, was sighted continuously dropping the ball. Even though there were times where SIM seemed to have mastered the passing coordination between players, a teammate near the goal will end up missing the pass. NTU, on the other hand was able to pass the ball from one end to the other without being intercepted. It also helped, in NTU's favour that the NTU team had better shooters.
Shalene Lim, player from NTU, helped to accurately shoot the majority of her team's goals.
Karen Cheng, a spectator waiting for her O-level results comments, “From what I heard, I expected the SIM team to be better. There are quite a few good players in that team. They are not playing as well as what they are capable of.”
SIM did score a few goals. But NTU worked like a well-oiled machine. At the last quarter, SIM appeared to have finally showed some traces of team communication, but they still committed a couple of fatal mistakes which showed their weaknesses. The final score stands at 56-7, led by NTU.
 Shalene Lim, player from NTU says, “The game was messy at the start. We cannot be led on by our opponent but instead we need to put on more focus on what we can do, instead of matching our standard to the opponent's.”
S.T Goh, coach for NTU says, “Actually I feel that the standard of the IVP games have improved this year. Now younger players, like those in the polytechnics are being exposed to more competitions which will in general help raise the overall sport standard.”
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