39th Sub-Jr Natl Volleyball Championship Manipur make good progress
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 25 2017:
The State team made progress in the ongoing 39th Sub-Junior National Volley Ball Cham-pionship underway at Pudu- cherry walloping Jammu and Kashmir in straight sets on January 24 and scraping past Maharashtra 3-2 .
In the match against Jammu and Kashmir on January 24, the State team excelled with some well placed shot and good spiking to whitewash them 25-15, 25-21, 25-14 .
The good show continued the next day, with the confident State team taking on Maharashtra today.
The first two sets went the way of the State team and Maharashtra did not really put up a good fight as they went down 14-25 in the first set.
Buoyed by the success in the first set, the players from Manipur continued with their good show in the second set winning 25-18 .
The script however took a different turn in the 3rd set as Maharashtra came back strongly to carve out a 25-21 win.
Pepped up by their success in the third set, the team from Maharashtra continued with the good and they managed to edge past the State team 25-22 in the fourth set.
In the final set the Manipur team dished out an excellent show to overcome Maharash-tra 15-11 .