Lankan spikers fail again

Chinthana Wasala

Sri Lankan youth spikers suffered another severe blow when they faced their fifth successive defeat at the super eight stage of the Seventh Asian Youth Boys' Volleyball Championship continued at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium yesterday.

Sri Lanka lost to Chinese Taipei 3-1 being unable get the best out of their spikers.

The first set saw a head to head battle between the two teams which ended in favour of the Taipei spikers 26-24. They maintained a better lead in the second set to end at 25-19.

The home team were able to pose a threat to the Taipei spikers in the third set which they came up with a better blocking and dashing to win the set at 19-25.

But the visitors were far ahead of them and showed their brilliance to win the fourth set 25-13 to finish the game 3-1 beating Lankans.