Udupi, 12 Sep, 2014: St. John’s PU Boys team, Shankerpura and St. Lawrence PU Girls team, Moodubelle emerged as champions of Udupi Taluk, South Zone inter-PU College Volley Ball Tournament that was held on Friday, 12 September 2014 in the Volley Ball courts of St. Lawrence PU college ground.
Boys teams from 14 PU Colleges and girls teams from 4 PU colleges participated in the keenly contested Volley Ball tournament. The final match played between the boys teams of St. John’s PU Shankerpura and PPC Admar was very exciting. The match lasted for full three rounds and eventually St. John’s PU College won the championship by defeating PPC Admar by 2-1.
The final match among the girls teams was between St. Lawrence PU College Moodubelle and PPC Admar in which St. Lawrence PU girls team won the championship by defeating PPC Admar by straight 2-0.
The inaugural function of the Udupi Tauk South Zone PU College Volley Ball Tournament was held in the quadrangle of St. Lawrence PU College in the morning at 9.30 am. Vice President of the Moodueblle Parish Pastoral Council, Alphonse K. Alva presided over the function. Devdas Hebbar, member of the Udupi Taluk Panchayat inaugurated the tournament by cutting the ribbon from the suspended volley ball.
Speaking at this occasion, both Devdas Hebbar and Alphonse K. Alva wished well for the tournament and made an appeal to the teams to play the game with team and sportsmanship spirit and uphold the principles associated with the game.
Yuvaraj, Sports Convener of Udupi Taluk South Zone, U.L. Bhat, Pricnipal of Jnanaganga PU College and Sylvester Mathias, Headmaster of Church Aided Higher Primary school were present.
Rev. Fr. Paul Sequeira, Principal of St. Lawrence PU College welcomed the gathering, Joseph D’Souza, PU College proposed the vote of thanks and Edward Larsen D’Souza compeered the programme.
Mukunda Kamath initiated the tournament in one of the courts and Yuvaraj in another court.
The valedictory function was held after the completion of the tournament in the evening at 5 pm. Rev. Fr. Paul Sequeira, Principal of St. Lawrence PU College, Rev. Fr. P. Raj, Principal of St. Lawrence English Medium High School and Rev. Fr. Vincent Coelho, Principal of St. John’s PU College, Shankerpura were present for the valedictory function. Rev. Fr. Paul Sequeira appreciated the participation of teams from different PU College and congratulated the winners and encouraged those who could not win in spite of their best efforts. Rev. Fr. Raj said that he thoroughly enjoyed watching the final matches of the tournament, especially those of the boys teams which were keenly contested.
Trophies were awarded to the winners and runners up.
Large number of spectators, both students and villagers thoroughly enjoyed the volley ball tournament. Students from participating colleges had come to cheer their teams. As the matches were played in two volley ball courts that were laid on the additional ground that is certain level below the main ground to the west of the high school-PU College complex, spectators could watch the tournament by standing on the edge of the ground.