PUNE, Oct 28: Holders and hot favourites Nagpur men started their march towards the title beating Satara 77-62 in a Group `A' match of Maharashtra State Inter-District basketball championship, in Solapur today.In the women section, holders Satara drubbed hosts Solapur 75-6 to enter the knock-out stage.
Results
Women (Group `A'): Satara 75 (Pradnya Mane 14, Arnika Gujar 12, Prachi Thatte 12, Kanchan Nalawade 11) beat Solapur 6. (HT: 37-0).
Grp `B': Sangli: 28 (Nirmala Nagane 18) beat Mumbai Central 18 (S Poornima 6). (HT 12-14). Nagpur: 55 (Anita Handa 11) bt Mumbai Central: 21 (Akruti Desai 9) (HT: 32-9).
Men: Grp A: Nagpur-77 (Pankaj Deshmukh-17, Bharesh Kuchanwar-12, Shrihari Garge-11) bt Satara-62 (Nilesh Ingle-24, Deepak Belle-14, Pravin Padwal-11) HT: 43-24.
Grp B: Mumbai Central-72 (Noor Mohd-25, Anwar Memon-10) bt Chandrgpur-10 (HT 30-3).
Grp C: Mumbai S West-42 (Stephen Rodrigues-10, Shibu george-11) bt Nandes-22 (Manoj Painjane-10) HT 35-14. Nanded-30 (Manoj Painjane-13) bt Dhule-29 (Mahendra Jadhav-10) HT: 19-14.
Grp D: Sangli-64 (Sharad Bansode-17) bt Kolhapur-26 (Rahul Pawar-6, Sujit Patil-6) HT: 30-4.
Grp. E: Solapur-48 (Baba Jadhav-14, Nitin Chapalgaonkar-11) bt Bhandara-46 (Naresh Wadhai-15, Prakash Shende-11) HT: 14-21.
Grp. F: Mumbai North-75 (Kaushal Chedda-10, Anish Sanghvi-15, Stanny Monteiro-13) bt Amravati-39 (Dhananjay Vithalkar-14, S Augustine-13) HT: 41-26.
Grp. G: Mumbai S. East-41 (Sarfaraz Ahmed-14) bt Jalgaon-40 (Girish Patil-11) HT: 17-24.
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