{"id":6786,"date":"2022-04-27T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T10:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2022-04-27T10:24:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T10:24:53","slug":"volleyball-g-rank-spikers-humble-taraba-spikers-in-jalingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/volleyball-g-rank-spikers-humble-taraba-spikers-in-jalingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball: G-Rank Spikers humble Taraba Spikers in Jalingo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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G-Rank Spikers of Kachi beat Taraba Spikers in a five set thriller (25-17, 13-25, 25-20, 21-25, 18-16) on Day 5 of the ongoing 2022 National Division 2 Volleyball League in Jalingo, Taraba state on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

G-Rank Spikers drew the first blood in the first set winning 25-17 points before the host, Taraba Spikers beat G-Ranks in the second set less than 30 minutes by 25-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both teams filled with youngsters showed resilience in the third set but G-Ranks Spikers went away with 25-20 points. G-Rank led Taraba Spikers by 7 points in the beginning of the fourth set; Taraba Spikers got crucial points and won 25-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fifth set was going in favor of Taraba Spikers before G-Ranks drew level at 14-14 points before winning by 18-16 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An elated Coach of G-Rank, Azi Yakubu said, “Winning this match is great for the players, the team and young coaches across trhe country. As you can see, G-Rank presented a young team and I know the confidence level of the team is high now.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He blamed fatigue for the loss of his second game against Bayonet Spikers adding that Sword VC are beatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yakubu said, “We came in two days after the commencement of the Division 2 League and did not have time to relax. G-Rank lost her first match to CNS Spikers in a walk over and the fatigue set in when we lost to Bayonet Spikers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The boys gave their best when they played Adamawa in their third match winning theeir first game of the league. Today, G-Rank played against the Host, Taraba Spikers and her fans at the Jolly Nyame Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our next match is with Sword and we are preparing to record another win because they are ready physically and mentally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the previous match, league leaders, Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Spikers ran riot on Sword VC 3-0 (25-13, 25-11, 25-15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 6 Fixtures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plateau Rocks v Adamawa Spikers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sword VC v G-Rank<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNS Spikers v Bayonet Spikers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

G-Rank Spikers of Kachi beat Taraba Spikers in a five set thriller (25-17, 13-25, 25-20, 21-25, 18-16) on Day 5 of the ongoing 2022 National Division 2 Volleyball League in Jalingo, Taraba state on Tuesday. G-Rank Spikers drew the first blood in the first set winning 25-17 points before the host, Taraba Spikers beat G-Ranks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[2517,2484,2483,514,2506,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6790,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/6790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}