
CHANDIGARH, Oct 6: Last year8217;s runner-up SD Public School, Sector 32 began their campaign with a bang in the second Rao Jai Singh Memorial basketball tournament which commenced at New Public School-18, here today. SD-32 in their opening league match beat Shivalik Public School-41, 55-36. The half-time score was in favour of SD School at 25-15.
Sukhbir Singh chipped in with 16 points for SD-32. Chander Parkash and Jaspreet also contributed 14 and 11 points respectively to the score. For SPS-41, Gurinderpal and Amandeep got 11 and eight points respectively.
SD School, in their second outing outplayed hapless Guru Nanak Public School-36, in all the sdepartment of the game to score a 79-43 victory. SD School-32 were leading by 31 points at the break 41-10.
In the second session, had the eventual winners not fielded their second string, it would not have been possible for GNP8217;s lads to narrow the margin, who in the first half of the contest were only able to get 10 points.
Chander Prakash led the SD8217;s attack with 20 points. Suresh also sunk 19 points for the team.
For GNP Jagpreet got 23 points including five three-pointers while Vikramjit netted 19 points.
In another league match, holders DAV School-8 handed out a 58-11 drubbing to New Public School-18 and sound a warning to their opponents in the meet. DAV led 36-9 at the break. Harjot and Amrish with 15 points each were the main scorers for DAV-8. Jetinder 4 mainly scored for NPS-18.
Five teams are participating in the meet and the matches are being played on round-robin league basis.