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Bengaluru Torpedoes capped disconnected a fantastic play by clinching its maiden Prime Volleyball League title, beating Mumbai Meteors 15-13, 16-4, 15-13 successful the final, astatine the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium present connected Sunday.
Meteors’ blockers did good to enactment unit connected Jalen Penrose, who overhit a fewer shots early. However, the talismanic American rapidly recovered his attacking boots, his smash down the enactment — which drew retired a horde of Torpedoes flags for the archetypal clip successful the crippled from the packed stands — 1 for the highlights reel.
Shubham Chaudhary’s ace constituent went successful vain aft Penrose’s cheekily-placed instrumentality enactment Torpedoes successful front.
In control
Meteors could hardly regroup aft going a acceptable down, with Torpedoes utilizing the momentum to enactment the compression on. They swiftly took a five-point pb and built connected it, with Joel Benjamin and Matthew West astatine the bosom of the team’s champion work. Abhinav Salar’s consolation ace constituent aside, Torpedoes hardly enactment a ft incorrect and raced to a 2-0 lead.
Norwegians Petter Ostvik and Mathias Loftesnes rallied the Meteors, but the Torpedoes denied them a comeback. In the end, the ‘match of the season’ turned into a coronation.
Torpedoes caput manager David Lee summed up the contest, and the season, successful the champion mode possible. “We overpowered them with serve, walk and axenic heart.”
