Hyderabad: Mahendra Hills Basketball Club and St Francis Boys secured the final two berths in Level-I of the GM Sampath Kumar Annual League Basketball Championship being held at YMCA Secunderabad on Thursday. Mahendra Hills sank SBI Hyderabad 72-57 while St Francis Boys beat BITS Hyderabad 55-43.
Mahendra Hills dominated from the start, bogging them down with tight defence to restrict them to just 9 points and in turn ran a flawless offense to score 21 points through Tanay, Daniel and Tagore to take the first quarter 21-9.
In the second quarter the experienced SBI staged a comeback by scoring 24 points. Sam was just unstoppable scoring 18 points in the period.
Brief Scores
Mahendra Hills BC 72 (Samuel 29, Sudheer 15, Sikumar 8) bt SBI, Hyderabad 57 (Daniel 22, Tagore 11, Tagore 11, Rishi 8). Half-time: 38-33.
St Francis Boys 55 (Peter 25, Nitish 11, Sumith, 7, Shoaib 4) bt BITS Hyderabad 43 (Sharan 17, Saket 13, Uppuluri 4, Guntuka 4). Half-time: 21-20.
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