PESHAWAR
\nUniversity of Central Punjab clinched the trophy after upsetting defending champion University of Peshawar in the final of the All Pakistan Inter-University Men Volleyball Championship played here at University Campus Indoor Hall on Wednesday.
\nSecretary Higher Education Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dawood Khan was the chief guest on this occasion. Vice Chancellor University of Peshawar Professor Dr. Muhammad Idrees, Vice Chancellor Agriculture University Professor Dr. Jehan Bakhat, Professor Dr. Hassan Sher, Vice Chancellor of University of Engineering Technology (UET), Director General Sports UoP Bahre Karam, Secretary Organizing Committee Dr. Noor Zada, Assistant Director Saleem Khan, players and officials were also present.
\nUniversity of Central Punjab, having services of four international players, handed an upsetting defeat to defending champion University of Peshawar 25-21, 25-22 and 25-22. Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKU) defeated Sargodha University by 3-1, the score was 23-25, 27-25 and 29-27 in a thrilling encounter.
\nThe final round of the Inter-University Volleyball Championship organized by the Directorate of Sports Peshawar University has been completed in Peshawar, in which the University of Central Punjab has won the title by winning against the University of Peshawar.
\nUniversity of Central Punjab, having services of international players, who were also hailing from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, showed the best game against University of Peshawar in the final and won the trophy. In the match played for the third position, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan won the third position by defeating Sargodha University by three sets to one.
\nOn this occasion, Secretary Higher Education Dawood Khan, Vice Chancellor of Peshawar University Prof. Dr. Bakht Jahan, Vice Chancellor of Swat University Hasan Sher, Director Distance Education Noorzada, Yahya Khan, Hidayatullah, Rahim Khan, Abdul Rashid Anwar, officials and other personalities were also present and gave away trophies and cash prizes.
\nSecretary Higher Education Dawood Khan in his speech paid tribute to Vice Chancellor University of Peshawar Professor Dr. Muhammad Idrees, Director General Directorate of Sports University of Peshawar and his team for hosting the best competitions.
\nHe said hosting such competition would give ample opportunities to the players to come up at national and international levels. He said through such competition more players would come up. He also appreciated University of Peshawar for providing best available facilities to the players of all the 16 participating Universities teams who qualified out of 14 zones wherein more than 200 universities teams initially took part in the first phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR University of Central Punjab clinched the trophy after upsetting defending champion University of Peshawar in the final of the All Pakistan Inter-University Men Volleyball Championship played here at University Campus Indoor Hall on Wednesday. Secretary Higher Education Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dawood Khan was the chief guest on this occasion. Vice Chancellor University of Peshawar Professor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n