Excellent Residential College wins second overall champions title
KOTA KINABALU: Excellent Residential College successfully defended the overall champions title at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Inter-Residential Colleges Sports Carnival that ended here Sunday.
The Excellent squad won five out of 12 gold on offer while also adding five silvers and two bronzes to top the multi-sport competition for the second year running.
The golds were won in the nine-a-side football competition, men and women volleyball, netball and badminton.
Excellent also won silver in men futsal, sepak takraw, men basketball, table tennis and chess while the bronzes were from women futsal and women basketball.
Tun Fuad KK Residential College, the 2016 overall champions, settled for second overall with three gold (sepak takraw, table tennis, chess), two silver (football, netball) and three bronzes (men futsal, men and women volleyball).
The overall third placing went to BETA Labuan Campus Residential College with two gold (women futsal, men basketball), two silver (men and women volleyball) and two bronzes (badmintion and netball).
UMS Sports Centre director Mohd Asyraaf Fong Abdullah said the carnival was the season ending sports event for UMS.
“The sports carnival is one of the platforms to select athletes to represent UMS to national level games such as MASUM and SUKIPT,” he was quoted as saying in a text message.
Asyraaf went on to present the prizes to the champions of the two-day championship that ended at the UMS sports complex.