Volleyball: Sunbirds win SV.League men's championship

Suntory Sunbirds Osaka claimed the inaugural men's title of Japanese volleyball's rebranded SV.League on Monday with a three-set win over JTEKT Stings Aichi in Game 2 of the best-of-three final.The Sunbirds followed Saturday's come-from-behind Game 1 victory with a 29-27, 25-16, 25-22 win in front of 9,864 fans at LaLa arena Tokyo-Bay in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture.The Sunbirds ended the seesaw opening set with a spike by Ran Takahashi after saving three set points.The Osaka-based club kept the momentum going in the next two sets, with 218-centimeter-tall Dmitriy Muserskiy coming up with po…READ FULL ARTICLE