NNH, known for their aggressive brand of basketball, took an early lead and never relaxed their hold on the game. They were well-served by veteran Shaikh Rashid and Junior State player Matin Shaikh who sank in four three-pointers on their way to a 75-59 win. For Hoopers, veteran P Ramaswamy played well under the boards.

In the mini girls' section, last year's runners-up Indian Gymkhana overcame a stiff challenge from Agradneya VS `B' 16-12 to enter the semi-finals.

RESULTS:

Men's: NNH 75 (Shaikh Matin 24, Shaikh Rashid 18) bt Hoopers 59 (P Ramaswamy 23, Dipesh Muni 15, Chirag Muni 13). Half-time: 41-25. Indian Gymkhana 85 (Manish T 16, Nikhil Pai 12, Sachin V 12, Mahesh 10, Rohan 10) bt Chembur Trombay Ed. Soc.(Ashok P 6). Half-time 30-3.

Mini girls: Agradneya VS `A' 23 (Shruti P 11, Poorvi K 10) bt Fr Agnel's 9 (Bhavna 9). HT: 10-9. Andheri YMCA 15 bt St Anthony's HS 8 (Sonia S 8). HT: 6-2.

Mini boys: Fatima 50 (Kalpesh 14, Abhijeet 8) bt Fr Agnel's 4 HT: 22-2; Indian Gymkhana 16 (Ketki K 10) bt Agradneya VS 12 (Nandini B 10). HT: 10-5; Indian Gymkhana 55 (Venkatesh Chari 12, Akshay G 10, Rohan W 10) bt Fr Agnel 18 (Harshad 12).HT: 25-14.

Rizvi top

Rizvi college Bandra has won the Inter-collegiate boxing championship held of the University Pavillion from November 21-25.

Naveen Poojari of Rizvi, who boxed in the fly-weight category, won his last three bouts with first round knock-outs.

In the final, he beat A Surendra of Siddharth Commerce in a unanimous point decision. In the first two rounds, Poojari lead on points while his right hook floored Surendra twice in the final round.

Ziauddin Khatib of Rizvi in thelight-weight category had stiff opposition in the semi-final from Atul Jadhav of Siddharth College, but Zia showed good technique to beat Jadhav to reach the final where he defeated J Omprakash of Lala Lajpatrai on a unanimous point decision.

Alderin Philip, also of Rizvi College, won his final by a knock-out win over Sawant Amit of Aggarwal College in the first round of the super heavy-weight category.

Rizvi college has won the boxing championships for the first time with a maximum of 26 points, Kirti college was second with 18 points and last years champion Maharashtra College was placed third with 13 points.

Gujran tops
Lalit Kumar Gujran (Tolani College of Commerce) won the gold medal at the University heavyweight boxing tournament on Thursday. He has been selected to represent the University at the Inter-university boxing championship to be held in December at Allahabad.