BOTH MEN AND WOMEN WIN IN VOLLEYBALL GAMES

FOR MONDAY SEPT 9 ...

MOA PNG women’s team recovered from their 3-0 loss to Tahiti last week to walk over Tuvalu at 3.00pm local time yesterday (Monday 09/09/10) in the 2013 IX Mini Pacific Games in Wallis and Futuna.

The Eagles played much better against Tuvalu to win the first set 25-11.

In the second set, they lost focus a bit and Tuvalu came back into the game and won it 27-25.

Coach John Kombeng said thereafter the girls stopped making simple mistakes and beat Tuvalu in the third and fourth sets.

“They lost focus and kind of played around a bit in the second set.  But they recovered and stopped making mistakes and won the rest of the sets,” Kombeng said.

Kombeng said it was likely that PNG women’s team is fourth on the points ladder after Tahiti, New Caledonia and Fiji and there was a chance of PNG making the medal playoffs.

“This is also the first time that a PNG women’s team has made it up this far, to take the fourth placing in a Pacific Games,” he said.

The final scores were 25-11, 25-27, 25-14, 2511.

AMOA PNG men’s team beat Tuvalu in their game later in the afternoon.

They won the first and second sets, 25-16 and 25-20 respectively. However, they were not allowed by the Tuvaluans to walk away easily with a victory when the Polynesians beat them in the third set with a score of 25-17.

Good blocks and front court play by Kato Otio, Veupu Kila, Eric Itana, Richard Kilarupa and captain Ravu Mahuru in the fourth set lifted Amoa PNG to fly over the Tuvaluans 25-21 and won the game 3-1.