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Journalism of Courage
MUMBAI, MAY 6: Mumbai South East powered into the girls semi-finals of the Maharashtra State Junior Basketball championships at the Fr. Agnel complex today.
A spirited display in defence and a late surge in office saw the girls drub Pune 65-51. Mumbai South-East had rallied from a 14-point deficit to beat Nagpur 60-55 yesterday and with today’s win have come out of a difficult league unscathed.
In Pool B, defending champions Satara also kept their slate clean, notching three victories to top the pool. In the boys league, holders Bombay North advanced to the quarters with their second successive win, over Solapur.
South East started sluggishly, their offence not clicking. But a solid performance in defence, from Sonali D’Souza in particular, helped tem check Pune to a 16-15 lead. Then the South-East offence switched gears. Anita Krishnan followed her 39-point effort yesterday with a 27, guards Ami Momaya and Sushma Holmagi found their rhythm and Pune were conquered.
RESULTS
Boys: Thane 62 (KBBinoy 17, V Maulik 16, M Dheeraj 9) bt Jalgaon 4; Solapur 56 (Daniel Kamble 22, Sadar Kharadi 14, Ramesh Chilewari 15) bt Nashik 45 (K Kishore 18, Deepak Khairnar 17); Sangli 48 (Ajay Patil 15, Anil Sankpal 9) bt Jalgaon 32 (Ganesh Rao 11, Dinesh Borikar 10); Nagpur 69 (Rajpal Singh 12, Anant Jadhav 10, Tapan D 13, Vishal B 12) bt Latur 30 (SV Sevakar 8); Mumbai South-East 52 (Anoop Almeida 12, Rizwan Shaikh 13, Aamir Ansari 12) bt Kolhapur 35 (Nazeed Jamadar 14); Akola 41 (Amol Gawai 14, Pravin Tekani 9) bt Ahmednagar 5; Mumbai North 67 (Nilesh Jadhav 23, Ralph 10, Ashish Lad 16) bt Solapur 51 (Daniel Kamble 13, Sadaf K 21).
Girls: Mumbai South-East 60 (Anita Krishnan 39, Ami Momaya 12) bt Nagpur 55 (Minal Patil 15, Snehashree Desai 12, Poonam Holkar 11) HT: 27-33; Mumbai North 40 (Loveena Figueiredo 31) bt Mumbai Central 39 (Mugdha Waingankar 11, Krupa Temkar 15); Thane 34 (Gayatri Manolikar 14) bt Mumbai North 24 (Loveena Figueiredo 18) HT: 13-16; Satara 29 (Rashmi Yevale 14, Mithila Gujar 11) btMumbai Central 17 (S Poornima 7); Mumbai South-East 65 (Anita Krishnan 27, Sushma Holmagi 17, Ami Momaya 10) bt Pune 51 (Shweta Shitole 13, Rashmi Kulkarni 11, Amruta Rane 13).
