NAGPUR: City cagers Sameeksha Chandak and Gunjan Mantri, and Pune’s Aanaya Bhavsar played pivotal roles as Maharashtra girls won the youth national basketball championship which concluded in Indore on Tuesday. The national championship to pick the Indian team was organized by the Basketball Federation of India (BFI).
In an exciting summit clash, Maharashtra defeated hosts Madhya Pradesh 79-75 with the quarter-wise scores reading 24-16, 21-26, 21-19, 13-14. For the winners, Aanaya scored a game-high 25 points and pulled 25 rebounds. She was assisted by Gunjan (19), Muskan Singh of Raigad (14) and Sameeksha (13). Much like Aanaya, Sameeksha too had a double-double when she pulled as many as 14 rebounds in addition to her 13 points.
