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Indian campers drub Karnataka

Sports Reporter

BANGALORE: "Improved performance... but still not satisfied" said Serbian coach Zoran Lukic as the Indian basketball campers snuffed out the challenge of Karnataka at 98-50 n an exhibition match at the Sree Kanteerava indoor stadium here this evening.

This was the second of the three exhibition matches planned for the Indian campers undergoing training at the SAI South Centre here since mid-January.

Having won the first 57-55 almost a week ago, there was apprehensions "We are working out certain strategies and skills and will experiment with them in match situations" said coach Zoran. The camp for 19 cagers has been pruned to 14 with Subash Shenoy, Damandeep Singh, Snehpal Singh, Ethiraj and Vinod were omitted. Ethiraj and Snehpal are injured and cannot be fit enough for the forthcoming Commonwealth games at Melbourne was Zoran's firm ruling.

Today too, the Campers looked shoddy in defence and lacked aggression in offensive rebounds but seemed very sure in the shooting department. Also the free-throw conversions showed good percentage.

"There are 17 more days before the leave for New Zealand for an four nation tourney and I will get them to peak condition" said Zoran, whose European blend of training has gone well with the players.

Karnataka however were without prolific shooter Murli Mohan while B.S. Gautham too looked a lot subdued.

"The boys played positive basketball only for about five minutes in the entire match... but then getting used to the court is also a factor" felt the coach who promised a much better showing in the third scheduled match, on February 18, at the newly constructed Mangala Indoor stadium in Mangalore.

The scores: Indian Campers 98 (Trideep Rai 21, Shivkumar 16, Talwinderjeet 10) bt Karnataka 50 (Umashankar 13, Srinivas Naik 12, Srinivasa Gowda 10)(Ht: 53-21).

Big win for SVC

Sri Venkateswara College scored an emphatic 115 run victory over M.S Ramaiah PU College in the PESIT State level Inter-college cricket tournament here on Tuesday. In another match, Kristu Jayanti College beat M.S Ramaiah Degree College by two wickets.

The scores: Sri Venkateswara 198 for 9 (Chetan 42 n.o) bt M.S Ramaiah PUC 73 for 4; M.S Ramaiah DC 106 (Anshuman 43, Ravi Kumar four for 21) lost to Kristu Jayanti College 107 for 8 (Robin Thomas 41)

Inter-district volleyball

The inter-district volleyball championship for under-21 men and women will be held at Hittanahalli Koppalu (Mandya District) from March 10 to 13. This event will be the basis of selecting the probables to represent Karnataka in the National youth championship to be held in Bangalore in May. Only those born on or after January 1, 1985 are eligible for participation.

Association Cup volleyball

This year's edition of the Association Cup volleyball championship for men and women will be held at Bantwal from February 23 to 25.

The top eight men's team and four in the women's section will participate in the championship along with a host team.

The teams: Men: MEG, ASC, KSP, Postal, LIC, SAI (Bangalore), CIL, Bangalore Sports Hostel besides Dakshina Kannada VA.

Women: Sports Hostel (Mysore), SAI (Bangalore), KSP, Mandya District and Dakshina Kannada District.

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