45th Volta Schools And Colleges Inter Zonal Sports Festival Ends In Ho
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 comprise 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, Atsrim 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 Multipro PVT Limited, producers of Indomie instant noodles who provided Cartoons of Indomie, 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
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
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
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 | POSITIONS |
| SOUTH | 1ST |
| CENTRAL | 2ND |
| LOWER MID SOUTH | 3RD |
| UPPER NORTH | 4TH |
| UPPER MID SOUTH | 5TH |
| LOWER NORTH | 6TH |
| NORTH | 7TH |
BEST ATHLETE BOYS DIVISION: SODZINSHIE ANTHONY – CENTRAL ZONE
ATHLETICS - 2018
GIRLS
| ZONES | POSITIONS |
| SOUTH | 1ST |
| UPPER MID SOUTH | 2ND |
| UPPER NORTH | 3RD |
| CENTRAL | 4TH |
| LOWER NORTH | 5TH |
| LOWER MID SOUTH | 6TH |
| NORTH | 7TH |
BEST ATHLETE GIRLS DIVISION: GAR DEBORAH – UPPER MID SOUTH
CROSS COUNTRY – 2018`
BOYS
| ZONES | POSITIONS |
| SOUTH | 1ST |
| CENTRAL | 2ND |
| UPPER MID SOUTH | 3RD |
| UPPER NORTH | 4TH |
| LOWER NORTH | 5TH |
| LOWER MID SOUTH | 6TH |
| NORTH | 7TH |
CROSS COUNTRY - 2018
GIRLS
| ZONES | POSITIONS |
| UPPER NORTH | 1ST |
| CENTRAL | 2ND |
| UPPER MID SOUTH | 3RD |
| SOUTH | 4TH |
| LOWER NORTH | 5TH |
| NORTH | 6TH |
| LOWER MID SOUTH | 7TH |
SOCCER RESULTS – BOYS
| ZONES | POSITIONS |
| LOWER MID SOUTH | 1ST |
| CENTRAL | 2ND |
| LOWER NORTH | 3RD |
| UPPER NORTH | 4TH |
| UPPER MID SOUTH | 5TH |
| SOUTH | 6TH |
| NORTH | 7TH |
BEST PLAYER: VADZE MAWULI – UPPER MID SOUTH
SOCCER RESULTS –GIRLS
| ZONES | POSITIONS |
| CENTRAL | 1ST |
| SOUTH | 2ND |
| UPPER NORTH | 3RD |
| LOWER MID SOUTH | 4TH |
| LOWER NORTH | 5TH |
| NORTH | 6TH |
| UPPER MID SOUTH | 7TH |
BEST PLAYER: DAWA JENNIFER – UPPER NORTH