Jammu, Dec 19: The home team of volleyball, after losing the opening match Andhra Pradesh, continued its winning spree in group matches in the ongoing 25th Youth National Volleyball Championship, organized by Madhya Pradesh Volleyball Association under the aegis of the Volleyball Federation of India at Panna in Madhya Pradesh.
As per the reports reaching here, the J&K team in the fourth match defeated Uttarakhand by straight 3-0 (25-21, 25-17, 25-12).
Spikers Vipan Kumar, Koushal Verma, Mohd Yasir, Arun Sharma, Sumit Singh, Riaz Ahmed and Nitin Sharma Libro displayed their magnificent skills and dominated the proceedings to achieve victory.
Earlier, the J&K team lost to Andhra Pradesh in the first match by 3-1 (15-25, 21-25, 25-19, 23-25) and bounced back with superb performance and won back-to-back matches against Maharashtra by 3-0 (25-23, 25-17, 25-18) and Chandigarh by 3-0 (25-15, 25-08, 25-15).
Placed in group-B, J&K shall now meet opponents from Tripura and Rajasthan in the next outings.
The J&K team left under the banner of the Volleyball Association of Jammu and Kashmir is playing under the guidance of UT volleyball coaches.
In a message sent to the team, Patron-in-Chief Volleyball Association of Jammu and Kashmir, Raj Daluja and President Sidharth Daluja congratulated the boys’ team and officials for their brilliant display in the national championship and exhorted them to continue their efforts in achieving further success in the championship.
