adminGeophrey Sifani Sports Reporter
ZIMBABWE Volleyball Association administrator Sibangani Mashasha has expressed satisfaction with the performances of local teams during the national league ties held at ZRP Support Unit in Chikurubi over the weekend.
Mashasha said the teams displayed a competitive spirit, raising his faith in the future of the game in the country.
“The teams displayed improved performance compared to previous games. This makes the game more interesting and gives us a large pool to choose our national teams from. Right now we want more teams joining our national league to increase competition,” said Mashasha.
“There are some teams which pulled out of the league due to financial challenges leaving the national league depleted, but we hope some of them will return to make the league even more competitive.”
In the men’s category, Chapungu dismissed Morris Depot 3-2 and routed ZRP Harare 3-0. ZRP Support Unit thumped ZRP Harare and Morris Depot by identical 3-0 score lines.
CBZ were leading NABA 2-1 when their match was stopped due to bad lighting on Saturday. The following day, CBZ beat University of Zimbabwe 3-1.
In the women’s league, ZRP Harare hammered UZ 3-0 on Saturday morning and punished ZRP Support Unit by the same score later in the scorching heat. ZRP Harare ended the weekend’s league matches on a high by edging Morris Depot 3-2 on Sunday.
Morris Depot went on to lose 0-3 to Chapungu. Chapungu followed up with a 3-0 thumping of UZ and 3-1 victory over ZRP Sport Unit.
Results
Men: Morris Depot 2-3 Chapungu, Harare 0-3 Support Unit, Stanbic 2-3 UZ, Support Unit 3-0 Morris Depot, Chapungu 3-0 Harare, UZ 1-3 CBZ
Women: UZ 0-3 Harare, Chapungu 3-0 Morris Depot,Support Unit 0-3 Harare, UZ 0-3 Chapungu, Chapungu 1-3 Support Unit, Morris Depot 2-3 Harare, Support Unit 0-3 UZ
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