ONGC, Dehradun, beat Coimbatore 66-31 in a men’s match of the All India Basketball tournament for the Nachimuthu Cup. In the women’s match, Chhattisgarh beat Mumbai Central Railway 87-70.
Men: ONGC Dehradun 66 (Vignesh Bhriguvanshi 18, Mohit Bhandari 18) bt CBE Basketball Assn 31(Mahesh 9, Sathiyan 8); RCF 73 (Bijender 29, Santhosh 17, Carmel 12) bt Kerala Police 55 (Jomon 17, Anu Mohonds 16, Shon 10).
Women: Chhattisgarh 87 (Poonam Chaturvedi 44, Gulabsa Ali 14, Sakshi Pandey 11, Sarbnjeet Kaur 10) bt Mumbai Central Railway 70 (Sruthi Menon 26, Kenny Susan Lalu 16); Southern Railway 53 (Rajapriyadharshini 24, M Adhirai 9, Smruthi 8) bt Northern Frontier Railway 49 (Geetha 12, Anju Sidharthen 10, Annai Gedrge 10, Sagarika Mohapatra 7).