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Friday, Jul 15, 2005

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Team Prasanna wins title

NEW DELHI: Team Prasanna Jayashankar emerged as the surprise winner of the women's title following a three-way tie in the Trial National basketball league but owed a great deal to Team Aparna Ghosh that unexpectedly brought down favourite Team Suman Sharma at the NDMC Indoor Stadium here on Thursday.

In the men's section, Team Abbas Moontassir took the title in spite of losing its last league match 74-82 to Team Khushi Ram. Though the second placed Team Ajmer Singh also had two victories, Team Abbas Moontassir was adjudged the winner since it had won their league match.

Earlier, calculators were out after three teams tied for the women's title. The tie was resolved after the scores of the matches involving Team Prasanna, Team Suman Sharma and Team Aparna Ghosh were taken into account. The results of the fourth team, Nandini Basappa that lost to these teams, were not considered. The calculations favoured Prasanna that had a net difference of +16, as compared to Suman Sharma's +8 and Aparna Ghosh's - 24.

Team Prasanna whipped Team Nandini Basappa, clearly the weakest of the four combinations on view, 102-44 in the most one-sided match of the league.

The last match of the day decided the men's runner-up with Team Ajmer Singh scoring over Team Ranbir Chopra by a 20-point margin.

Later, the Basketball Federation of India secretary Harish Sharma announced that within six months, the first National League would be launched with eight men and four women teams.

The scores:

Men: Team Khushi Ram 82 (Roshan P. T. 23, Mandeep Singh 20) beat Team Abbas Montasssir 74 (R. Kaushal 16, Kuldeep Hardia 14, Birender Singh 12); Team Ajmer Singh 68 (Rajnish Singh 14, Tinu Joseph 13, Srinivas Gowda 9) beat Team Ranbir Chopra 48 (Amit Parashar 19).

Standings: 1. Abbas Moontasir, 2. Ajmer Singh, 3. Ranbir Chopra, 4. Khushi Ram.

Women: Team Aparna Ghosh 65 (Divya Singh 20, P. Anitha 10) beat Team Suman Sharma 56 (Anju Lakra 12, Sheeba Magon 10, Prashanti 9); Team Prasanna J. 102 (A. Geethu 20, Bharti Netam 13, Aakansha Singh 10, L. S. Savitha 10) beat Team Nandini Basappa 44 (Bincy Philip 7).

Standings: 1. Prasanna Jayashankar, 2. Suman Sharma, 3. Aparna Ghosh, 4. Nandini Basappa. — Special Correspondent

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