45TH Inter Zonal Sports Festival for Volta Sch. & Colleges held The 45th Annual Inter Zonal Sports Festival in the Volta region has ended successfully with Central and Southern Zones emerging as overall winners in various disciplines at the Ho Sports Stadium. Seven (7) zones, namely Upper Mid –South, Lower North, Upper North, South, Lower Mid – South, Central and North all took part in eight (8) disciplines at the Ho Stadium and the Mawuli School Park. The disciplines which comprises of Soccer, Handball, Table Tennis, Athletics, Basketball, Netball, Volleyball and Cross Country saw great individual performances as well as representations of their respective zones. The sports festival which started on 9th March through to 14th March saw new regional records being set in 6 categories. In High jump, physically challenged Brenyi Patience of Sovie Vocational/Technical school representing the Lower – North Zone, sets a new record by jumping in 1.56 meters, thus 0.11 meter difference from the existing 1.45meters record held by Afeke Angela from the south in 2008. In the 200m race for boys, Sodzinshie Anthony from Central zone clocked 22.19 sec. to cancel the existing record held by Sokpoli Justice in 2011 when he clocked 22.89 sec. In the 400m race also for boys, Attrim Makafui made a statement for himself when he clocked 50.80 Sec to break the record of Fiave Hope from the south who made 51.07 sec in 2011. In 800m, Dorglo Kennedy from the Upper Mid-South clocked 2minutes 8 sec to cancel a 2011 record of Fefe Christian from the south of 2minutes 62sec. In Discus, Dikro Charlotte threw her Frisbee as far as 31.42meters past Sovoh Happys’ 26.29meters in 2008. Whereas in Javelin, Zormelo Kenneth threw 57.36meters distance range to edge out Kporvie Wisdoms’ 52.69meters from south in 2011. The chairman for this year’s Annual Sports Festival, Mr. Ayisa Samuel, congratulated all athletes for exhibiting good sportsmanship and their hidden talents. He urged them to be serious with their studies and be disciplined. “I want to congratulate you all for a spectacular, disciplined performance and good sportsmanship” “I want you to carry along with you all the good things you have learnt here and tell your friends in school about it.” The just ended Inter Zonal Sports Festival received trophy sponsorship from Agyengo Sports Foundation, an NGO based in the Ashanti region and Indofood, producers of Indomie instant noodles who provided exercise books and T-shirts to the best athletes in all sporting disciplines. The baton to host the next edition of the Annual Inter Zonal Sports Festival in 2019 was handed to Upper–North zone by the Central zone which hosted it. Below are the results: VOLTA REGION SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES SPORTS ASSOCIATION 45TH ANNUAL SECOND CYCLE REGIONAL SCHOOL SPORTS FESTIVAL HO - 2018 VOLLEYBALL RESULTS - BOYS ZONES POSITIONS SOUTH 1ST UPPER MID SOUTH 2ND UPPER NORTH 3RD CENTRAL 4TH LOWER NORTH 5TH LOWER MID SOUTH 6TH NORTH 7TH BEST PLAYER: ALEX AKO – UPPER MID SOUTH GIRLS ZONES POSITIONS UPPER MID SOUTH 1ST SOUTH 2ND CENTRAL 3RD LOWER NORTH 4TH LOWER MID SOUTH 5TH NORTH 6TH UPPER NORTH 7TH BEST AMEZUGBE CELESTINE – UPPER MID SOUTH VOLTA REGION SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES SPORTS ASSOCIATION 45TH ANNUAL SECOND CYCLE REGIONAL SCHOOL SPORTS FESTIVAL HO - 2018 HANDBALL RESULTS - BOYS ZONES POSITIONS LOWER NORTH 1ST CENTRAL 2ND SOUTH 3RD UPPER NORTH 4TH LOWER MID SOUTH 5TH NORTH 6TH UPPER MID SOUTH 7TH BEST PLAYER: QUARCOO RICHARD - CENTRAL GIRLS ZONES POSITIONS CENTRAL 1ST SOUTH 2ND UPPER NORTH 3RD LOWER MID SOUTH 4TH NORTH 5TH LOWER NORTH 6TH UPPER MID SOUTH 7TH BEST PLAYER: CLOTHILDA SAM - CENTRAL VOLTA REGION SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES SPORTS ASSOCIATION 45TH ANNUAL SECOND CYCLE REGIONAL SCHOOL SPORTS FESTIVAL HO - 2018 TABLE TENNIS - BOYS ZONES POSITIONS SOUTH 1ST CENTRAL 2ND LOWER NORTH 3RD LOWER MID SOUTH 4TH UPPER NORTH 5TH UPPER MID SOUTH 5TH NORTH 5TH BEST PLAYER: EMMANUEL ATIPO - SOUTH GIRLS ZONES POSITIONS SOUTH 1ST CENTRAL 2ND LOWER MID SOUTH 3RD NORTH 4TH UPPER MID SOUTH 5TH LOWER NORTH 6TH UPPER NORTH 7TH BEST PLAYER: RUBY LARTEY - CENTRAL VOLTA REGION SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES SPORTS ASSOCIATION 45TH ANNUAL SECOND CYCLE REGIONAL SCHOOL SPORTS FESTIVAL HO - 2018 NETBALL - GIRLS ZONES POSITIONS UPPER MID SOUTH 1ST CENTRAL 2ND LOWER NORTH 3RD LOWER MID SOUTH 4TH SOUTH 5TH UPPER NORTH 5TH NORTH 5TH AZUMAH GLORIA – UPPER MID SOUTH BASKETBALL BOYS ZONES POSITIONS LOWER NORTH 1ST SOUTH 2ND UPPER MID SOUTH 3RD LOWER MID SOUTH 4TH CENTRAL 5TH NORTH 5TH UPPER NORTH 5TH BEST PLAYER: DZANDU MICHAEL – LOWER NORTH BASKETBALL GIRLS ZONES POSITIONS CENTRAL 1ST SOUTH 2ND UPPER MID SOUTH 3RD LOWER MID SOUTH 4TH UPPER NORTH 5TH LOWER NORTH 6TH NORTH 6TH BEST PLAYER: SASU MILLICENT - CENTRAL ATHLETICS - 2018 BOYS ZONES POINTS POSITIONS SOUTH 192 1ST CENTRAL 110 2ND LOWER MID SOUTH 79 3RD UPPER NORTH 78 4TH UPPER MID SOUTH 73 5TH LOWER NORTH 39 6TH NORTH 13 7TH BEST ATHLETE BOYS DIVISION: SODZINSHIE ANTHONY – CENTRAL ZONE ATHLETICS - 2018 GIRLS ZONES POINTS POSITIONS SOUTH 137 1ST UPPER MID SOUTH 124 2ND UPPER NORTH 83 3RD CENTRAL 78 4TH LOWER NORTH 70 5TH LOWER MID SOUTH 60 6TH NORTH 37 7TH BEST ATHLETE GIRLS DIVISION: GAR DEBORAH – UPPER MID SOUTH CROSS COUNTRY – 2018` BOYS ZONES POINTS POSITIONS SOUTH 28 1ST CENTRAL 30 2ND UPPER MID SOUTH 55 3RD UPPER NORTH 62 4TH LOWER NORTH 84 5TH LOWER MID SOUTH -- 6TH NORTH -- 7TH CROSS COUNTRY - 2018 GIRLS ZONES POINTS POSITIONS UPPER NORTH 36 1ST CENTRAL 48 2ND UPPER MID SOUTH 50 3RD SOUTH 57 4TH LOWER NORTH 75 5TH NORTH 84 6TH LOWER MID SOUTH 123 7TH SOCCER RESULTS – BOYS ZONES POINTS POSITIONS LOWER MID SOUTH 13 1ST CENTRAL 12 2ND LOWER NORTH 10 3RD UPPER NORTH 9 4TH UPPER MID SOUTH 9 5TH SOUTH 7 6TH NORTH 4 7TH BEST PLAYER: VADZE MAWULI – UPPER MID SOUTH SOCCER RESULTS –GIRLS ZONES POINTS POSITIONS CENTRAL 12 1ST SOUTH 11 2ND UPPER NORTH 10 3RD LOWER MID SOUTH 6 4TH LOWER NORTH 6 5TH NORTH 6 6TH UPPER MID SOUTH 0 7TH BEST PLAYER: DAWA JENNIFER – UPPER NORTH GBCONLINE ---DECRYPTED---