BITS set to sweep carroms medals

After 2004, once again BITS, Pilani is set to win all the medals in Carrom tournament. All three teams BITS A, BITS B and BITS C have made it to the last three. While BITS A defated SIES, BITS B won over BITS Goa and BITS C got past SBMJC to book the medals. Carroms captain Kanti Kiran is a happy man and said that the competition as tougher than expected but this year the team had started paracticing very early.Congratualtions to the Carroms team for their success!

Carroms Update

We are back live! Right now we are at Students' Activities Centre (SAC). Here are the updates.

Carroms - BITS C vs SBMJC is going on. After 3 games, 2-1 to BITS C. We will update you as the match progresses.

Earlier in the day, BITS B team comprising of 4 people defeated the BITS, Goa team 3-2. BITS Goa was a competitive team to play against says Kantikiran, the captain of the BITS, Pilani team. Karthik emerged as the outstanding player in the match.

Pocketing the Queen

The Carrom team captain Kranti Kiran sounded a confident note on his team's practice ahead of BOSM 2008. The 14 member team (3 teams of 4 each with 2 - standby) comprising many 4^th and 5^th year students is all geared up to take the centre stage in the five events that will be held for the game of carrom. "The support from the institute has been overwhelming" the captain told the BEP team. "We have been provided with the new tables that were very much needed by us, and this has improved our game considerably", he added.

Though the captain was a little disappointed with the low participation of the first year students he told us that the turnout for selections this time was beyond expectations, especially with a lot of second year students taking turning up for practices regularly. The team had started their practice sessions early, and is very well prepared to take the top honours. The captain hopes that people turn up for the events to cheer for their team.