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| Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
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12th Asian Junior Women's VB Championships : Fancied teams win on day two by Bernard Perera Korea recorded a straight three sets victory over Maldives in a game which lasted only 42 minutes at the Sugathadasa indoor stadium. This was a preliminary Group A match. Physically fit Koreans displayed a classy game of spiking in the 12th Asian Junior Women's Volleyball Championship which is in progress in Colombo. Small-made Maldivian lasses had no answer to power-packed dashes sent in by the tall Korean lasses, in the first set. Koreans took the set at 25-7 in fifteen minutes. The second set took only 12 minutes as the Maldivians could not face the spiking of Koreans. Many substitutions were made by the Maldivians to halt the high-riding opponents. But this too failed to produce good results and they went down with the score reading 25-3. Koreans sensing an easy victory did tire themselves in the third set. Even then the minnows Maldivians could muster only four points losing at 25-4. In another Group 'A' game Taipei outclassed Australians three sets to one. 22-25, 25-21, 25-16, 25-13. Taipei the second seed in this championship behind defending champions China lost the first set at 22-25, but came back strongly to win the following three sets and the match. The Pool 'B' game between Japan and India saw Japan make it in straight sets. Japanese girls never allowed Indians to take control any of set. Japanese girls completed the game with a scoreline of 25-12, 25-17 and 25-11. Today Sri Lanka take on Taipei at 3 p.m. and in the morning at 9 a.m. India meet Thailand. The game at 11 a.m. between Australia and Maldives a Group 'A' game can be seen live on Eye Channel. |
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