Sport - Volleyball

ITI SC downs KSP

BANGALORE: ITI Sports Club caused an upset by defeating State champion Karnataka State Police (KSP) in five thrilling sets in the Association Cup super league volleyball match for the Sri Chowdeshwari Trophy at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium courts here on Friday. ITI won 19-25, 25-21, 25-19, 20-25, 15-8.

Having lost to MEG in straight sets on Thursday, the youthful side, barring Yatish and Nagaraj Hegde, were out to prove a point and chose this day. Suresh and Sampath too chipped in with some intelligent play.

For KSP, only Shinoj managed to restore some sanity, while the rest, more out of complacency, conceded too many points.

Both KSP and ITI have won one match each in the super league.

A 15-member team will represent Karnataka in the National triathlon and acquathlon event at Porbander in January’ 2008.

The team: Triathlon (juniors): Shifa Fathima; Acquathlon (juniors): M.S. Somesh, Jibu Babu, Abdul Hassan, Shifa Fathima and L. Ashwini; Acquathlon (sub-juniors): Krishna Kumar, Pranav Kumar, M.V. Balajee, Chandana, Navya Shenoy and Anvitha Shampur. Officials: V. Shampur, Shenoy; Officer-in-charge: Cmde. J.P. Carneiro, IN (Retd.).

The Kinesis Sports Ltd., will conduct a three-day cardio-tennis workshop here from December 1. The United States Professional Tennis Registry coach Dr. Louie Cap will conduct the sessions which are open to tennis players who are above the age of 18 years.

Bangalore South and Belgaum districts won the boys and girls’ titles respectively in the State level pre-university badminton championship that concluded at Gulbarga. In the boys’ final, Bangalore South defeated Belgaum 2-0 and in the girls’ final, Belgaum defeated Davangere 2-0.

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