23rd Sr State Basketball: LMYVA to meet SRWC for Sr Men's title

    17-Oct-2019
By Our Sports Reporter
IMPHAL, Oct 17 : LMYVA, Lalambung will play Sega Road Welfare Club (SRWC) in the men's final  tomorrow in the 23rd Senior State Basketball Championship being organised at Nahabam Basketball Court under the supervision of Manipur Basketball Association.
The first men's semi-final match staged today saw SRWC got the better of ESU by 70-57 points as Markanin led the scoring with the best 23 points while Suraj and Jackson fetched 17 points each. Momen, S Viking and Shashilachi managed 7, 4 and 2 points for the same team to ensure the huge win.
ESU scores on the other hand came from Kaashper (22), S Robinson (10), N Rajiv (8), Rungsung (6), Th Newton (6) and M Oshil.
Meanwhile in the second semi-final match, LMYVA edged out Ideal Club, Tera 47-43 after the latter team made a short comeback in the second period.
Kemlin made the most of the scoring for the winning side in this keenly contested semi-final match with a staggering 26 points in his name while his team mate Tutu grabbed 15 points . Lubert, Borish and Rajesh also made on the scoresheet for LMYVA with 2 points each.
On the other hand, Ideal Club collected 43 points with the help of Ksh Tinku (14), Ksh Pratap (10), Ksh Rakesh (8), Lakpati (5), Romeo (5) and Rajesh (1).