State sweep sepaktakraw titles
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 18 2012:
Manipur today added the regu event gold to the team event titles won yesterday as the 22nd Senior National Sepaktakraw championship concluded at Taangi of cuttack in Odisha (Orissa) with Manipur making a clean sweep of all the titles.
Manipur striker Kh Niken was adjudged the tournament's best player.
In the men's regu final played today, Manipur defeated Delhi 15-10, 15-11 with the State eves thumping Nagaland 15-10, 15-12 to wrest the women's crown.
Earlier in the day, Manipur men's team cruised past Odisha, Goa, Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh and Assam to reach the quarter final where it defeated UP before Nagaland became the semifinal casualty.
In the women's competition, Manipur entered the last eight round with comfortable wins over Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Chandigarh and Tamil Nadu, and Odisha in the quartefinal.