Wilson Academy humble South Point

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KATHMANDU, Feb 26 : The hosts Wilson Academy posted a convincing 104-37 win over South Point in the senior boys’ category of the Fourth Wilson Inter-school basketball tournament on Tuesday.

The visitors started the match promisingly as Paras Khadka opened the scoring for them in the first minute but Wilson’s Sabin Maharjan was quick enough to equalise. Thereafter, the visitors never settled in what turned out to be a one-sided affair.

By the half time the home side was safely placed at 34-10. For the home crowd Kajesh Mool stole the show with 26 points to his name. The visitors suffered more in the second session as the home side netted another 70 points to inflict more pains to them.

Wilson captain Amit Tulachan led by example to score individual 18 points. Also to provide a good support was Sabin Maharjan, who netted handy 16 points. From South Point, Santosh Shrestha scored ten while Khadka netted eight points.

In the day’s other matches of the same category, Sagarmatha School beat Manjushree School in similar fashion with 86-21. Sampurna Thapa scored 22 points for the winners while Sanju Thapa also provided a good support scoring 19 points.

The Excelsior’s winning run continued as they thrashed KISC 66-38 in the same category. Kamal Gurung scored 34 points – highest in the tournament so far.

In another match of the same category, Alpha School did well to retaliate RIBS attack but lost the match 62-49. Jagat Gauchan played superbly to score 32 points.

Young Heart School, who won the Monday’s match 32-8 against Gillette School, continued their winning streak by posting a 48-21 win over Rupy’s International School. All the points for the loser were scored by Shreyas Karki.

However, Rupy girls offered some relief to their school scoring 20-7 over Gillette in the senior girls’ category. In the day’s opening junior boys’ category match, Gyanodaya humiliated Puspa Sadan 28-6.

Eastern Railways into last four

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POKHARA, Feb 26: Eastern Railways Sports Association team from Kolkata entered the semi-finals of the Caravan Gold Cup football tournament following a 1-0 win over the Ranipokhari Corner Team (RCT) in the second quarter-final played on Tuesday.

Both the teams looked aggressive right from the onset of the match. However, none of the teams could make any impact to the scoreboard until the end of the first half.

The visitors from Kolkata were the first to change the scores when S Dhara, the Eastern Railway forward, dented the RCT defence 25 minutes into the second half. Ujjwal Manandhar, the RCT goalie was left clueless in response to the breathtaking shot of Dhara.

RCT, despite finishing the day as the second best, looked to be the dominant side during almost entire first half. However, they had only themselves to blame for the defeat as most of the chances they created in the middle went begging, thanks to lacklustre play shown by their forwards.

Eastern Railway team, who were almost at the backseat in the first half proceedings, showed a lot of co-ordination up front in the latter half of the match. Launching a wave of attacks, their forwards seemed to have settled in the opponents’ area throughout the second half. Even after going 1-0 up, the Kolkatan defence hardly showed any complacency as the RCT offensive, few in number, were negotiated easily, to the dismay of the capacity crowd.

Lokesh Thapa and Gibesh Pandey of RCT received warning for their foul play while for the Eastern Railways, honours were bagged by S Das and S Chakraborty.

Manang Marshyangdi and Sahara White will fight out for a place in the last four on Wednesday.