Saturday, April 16, 2011

EMRS girls win, again

GANGTOK: The girl’s basketball team of Eklavya Model Residential School [EMRS], Gyangyap, has once again impressed with its outstanding performance. This time by lifting the Xavierian Cup played on 14 and 15 April at St Xavier’s School, Pakyong.
EMRS lifted the cup thrashing another good girl’s basketball team of St Philomena School, Kalimpong, 50-21.
It had already defeated St Philomena School in its first round 42-24, with whom they met again in the finals. St George School, Pedong, was humbled 48-02 in the semi-final by EMRS.
The team captain, Nim Doma Bhutia, along with her mates, Rinchen Doma Bhutia, Pem Choden Lepcha, Diki Doma Bhutia and Tshering Eden Bhutia, impressed the spectators with their game and skills.
The team was escorted by the EMRS Principal cum coach, Siddharth Yonzon, and Chewang Kidan as manager.

2 comments:

  1. I think its Basketball and not Volleyball

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  2. You are right. This is an embarrassing slip given that we have reported on the EMRS so regularly. Thanks for pointing it out. It is basketball and we will correct it now. for readers who join the story later, thank anonymous above for pointing out the copy-editing error.
    Editor

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