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Indian School-RAK stun Millennium as Winning Champs top

The newly introduced boys under 19 schools category of the 7th Indian Basketball League (IBL), organised by the Indian Basketball Society (IBS), had a great kick start when two keenly contested games kept the turnout in suspense till the final hooter.

In the first fixture Our Own School, Al Wa’arqa beat Dubai Modern High School, 34-30. At half time Our Own led 19-11.

In another encounter, Indian School, Ras Al Khaimah upset The Millennium School, 45-33. At half time Indian School led 21-14.

Moving on to the boys under 13 category, defending champions Winning Champs defeated Emirates National School-Sharjah 42-32 and Nucaf DPS-Dubai defeated Dubai Modern 30-18.

In under 13 girls play, Our Own English High School, Al Wa’arqa defeated Nucaf-DPS Dubai 32-7.

The two-month long IBL sees matches taking place during the weekend in Dubai.

The IBS is a recognised and registered sports body in the UAE with grassroot promotion of the game being the main priority of the coaches and institution sports heads who conduct the championships in various categories.

moni@khaleejtimes.com

U19 Boys: Our Own High School-Al Warqa: 34 (Salil 11, Chandilya 10, Safar 5, Ameer 4 and Akshay 4) defeated Dubai Modern High School: 30 (Dhiren 9, Vibodh 8, Shaun 7, Anirudh 4 and Mohit 2)

Indian School – Ras Al Khaimah: 45 ( Dominique 18, Rashiq 14, Shyam Kumar 9 and Jermey 4) beat The Millennium School-Dubai: 33 (Atif Farook 10, Avinash 8, Philip 5, Nihal 4, Yash Mathur 2, Sean Antony 2 and Yuvraj Chawla 2)

U13 Boys: Winning Champs-Dubai: 42 (Renston Cresta 12, Satyajit Kulkarni 10, Austin Mendonca 10, Abbas Hussain 4, Simon Sam Koshy 4, Daanish Mustaq 2) beat Emirates National School – Sharjah: 32 ( Hafees 15, Shabas 8, Rahul 6, Faseeh 2 and Ashish 1)

Nucaf-DPS- Dubai: 30 (Ishan Shoukath 21, Varun Menon 5, Nazim Siddique 4) beat Dubai Modern: 18 (Pranjal Jain 8, Ritik Jain 2, Piyush Suresh 2, Harshit Navlani 2, Aditya 2 and Ridge Rodricks 2)

U13 Girls:

Our Own English High School-Al Warqa: 32 ( Arya Suresh 10, Reshma Tomy 8, Priyanka 4, Ireme Jacob 4, Jesna Benny 4 and Vaishnavi Krishna 2) beat Nucaf DPS Dubai: 7 (Mrinalini Dorothy 4, Sharon Reji 2 and Priyanka Baskar 1)

Schedule:

Thursday 10^th May Venue: Salah Al Deen Indoor Hall, Near Century Mall, Dubai

6 p.m. U19 Boys: Emirates National School v Indian School, Ras Al Khaimah

7:15 p.m. U19 Boys: NIMS-Sharjah v Millennium School-Dubai

Friday 11^th May Venue: Salah Al Deen Indoor Hall

5:30 p.m. Women: Stars-Dubai vs. Our Own English High School-Al Warqa

7:15 p.m. Men: Titans v City Fives

8:45 p.m. Men: Hoopers v Wisdom Education Academy ‘The A Team’

Saturday 12^th May – Venue: The Westminster School-Dubai

9:00 a.m. U13 Girls – DPS-Sharjah v Nucaf DPS-Dubai

9:00 a.m. U13 Girls – Dubai Modern High School v Our Own English High School

10:00 a.m. U13 Boys – The Indian High School-Dubai v Winning Champs- Dxb

11:00 a.m. U13 Boys – The Model School – Abu Dhabi vs. DPS – Sharjah

11:00 a.m. U19 Boys – Dubai Modern High School v The Indian High School, DXB