Khalsa Warriors maintain their unbeaten record in World Kabaddi League by defeating Vancouver Lions with a sore of 62-58. Although the Warriors won the match, the Vancouver Lions made a game out of it. The match details and link to video is posted below
Vancouver Lions Vs. Khalsa Warriors
Amritsar, September 28: Khalsa Warriors continued their spectacular run with 10th win in 11 matches at the Wave World Kabaddi League as they beat a resurgent Vancouver Lions 62-58 in the first match on Sunday in Amritsar.
The undefeated Khalsa Warriors rallied from a first quarter deficit to showcase their amazing resilience and talent.
Gagandeep Singh Jogewal started the match with a successful raid, which indicated Khalsa Warriors were in high spirits and full of confidence. But Vancouver Lions was playing with a positive mindset after their win over Yo Yo Tigers in their last match, had a great start moving to an early lead. Satnam Singh of Vancouver earned first successful stop point for the team and levelled the score to 6-6 in the fourth minute of the game. Khalsa Warriors soon recovered and in the next minute stopper Gurpreet Singh Batth aka Gopi Manki again took the lead to 10-7. Vancouver Lions did not lose the hope and few great successful stops and raids made by Amritpal Singh Sheru, Balwan Singh and Jairo Chavez, a US National, helped Vancouver Lions to take a lead at 17-14.
In the second quarter, both teams were again at each other with great aggression. Khalsa raiders Manjot Singh and Yugraj Singh inspired their team by earning points and levelled the score 21-21 in the 13th minute of the game. But Vancouver Lions’ star raider Sucha Singh and Khlasa stopper Gurpreet clashed fiercely, but it was Gurpreet who managed to stop Sucha Singh earning a game-changing point.
From here on Khalsa Warriors didn’t look back and earned point in every raid. Khalsa Warriors raiders Gagandeep, Yugraj and Manjot had four successful raids each and helped their team to lead the quarter by 32-28. For Vancouver Lions, star raiders Balwan and Amritpal had five and four successful raids respectively, but the stop line failed to impress.
With successful come back and lead of four points Khalsa Warriors started the third quarter on an exciting note. Vancouver Lions tried hard to make a comeback but they couldn’t reduce the point gap. Khalsa Warriors further increased the lead to seven points. Manjot Singh, Yugraj Singh Jagga was the star raider with five raids each and Gurpreet Singh was the star stopper with 2
stops for Khalsa Warriors. Balwan Singh and Kuljeet Singh were star raiders with 5 successful raids each and Narinder Ram was the key stopper with 1 stop for Vancouver Lions. In the 29th min of the match Vancouver Lions made few good attempts and bounced back by successfully narrowing the gap to five points at 48-43.
In the intensely fought fourth quarter, Khalsa Warriors maintained the lead with the help of their raiders Yugraj and Manjot, who successfully earned points in each of their raids. Khalsa Warriors’ stopper Gurpreet stood like an big wall for opponents, earning five valuable points for his team. Yugraj and Manjot became instrumental in the victory of their team with the score 62-58.
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