
Nagpur: Hoopsters from Nagpur had a fine day in office as both men and women recorded facile wins on Day 2 of 75th Maharashtra State Inter-District Senior Basketball Championship for the Chief Minister’s Trophy underway at various venues in the city on Monday.
After a tight opening game against Satara on Sunday, Nagpur men got their mojo back and were ruthless in 79-11 demolition of Sangli. Deep Bhandarkar scored a match high of 19 and was well supported by Tanuk Gurnule (12), Yadunath Yadav (11) and Siddhesh Kulkarni (8) as the hosts went berserk. The quarter-wise scores read 21-5, 18-6, 15-0, 25- 0. Sangli’s S Jonathan scored 9 points.
Nagpur women also registered their second win in as many days. Led by Rajvi Maladhari (18) and Dhara Phate (11), Nagpur defeated Aurangabad 58- 28 (22-7, 14-7, 13-7, 9-7). Gargi Patil (9) top scored for the losing team.
OTHER RESULTS
Women: Kolhapur (Shivani Bagadi 11) bt Palghar (Pooja Handya 8) 42-21 (18-04, 11- 08, 06-04, 07-05).
Men: Kolhapur (Omkar Mane 19, Vedraj Patil 12) bt Akola (Robin Mathai 12, Sunil Kumar 9) 49-48 (8-6, 8-17, 13-8, 20-17); Amravati (Piyush Pidekar 24) bt Palghar (Joel Moraes 12) 46-26 (8-11, 11-13, 18-0, 9-2); Beed (Ajay P 12) bt Ratnagiri (Avdesh Jha 10) 58- 23 (26-8, 12-4, 21-7, 11-4); Thane (Shubham Yadav 17) bt Palghar (Joel Moraes 12) 67-37 (23-11, 14-14, 22-03, 08-09); Pune (Ojas Ambedkar 12) bt Sindhudurg (Chinmay Rawool 12) 63-32 (25-15, 18-8, 7-4, 13-5).








