KARACHI, Sept 26: Army maintained supremacy on Monday as they thrashed Habib Bank 83-47 to win the 45th National basketball championship in Attock for the 17th time in a row.
Internationals Pervez Hussain, Waheed Iqbal, Mahmood Nasir and Muhammad Ilyas displayed superb game for the winners.
Shooter Prevez contributed 30 points. Muhammad Ilyas made just eight points but he single-handedly tore apart the rivals’ defence by fine dribbling, swift movement, distribution and passing.
Army’s Muhammad Ilyas received the winners’ trophy while Muhammad Ashraf was handed the runners-up trophy.
In the play-off for the third place, Wapda defeated Railways 81-51.
RESULTS:
Army bt HBL 83-47
Army: Pervez Hussain 30, Waheed Iqbal 16, Mahmood Nasir 12, M Ilyas 8, Mir Alam 7, Mudassar Khan 10, Khalid Ahmed 10, Sher Bahadur 2.
HBL: Mahmood Nasir 12, Asharf 8, Falak Fareed 8, Atif 6, Umer Khalid 6, Zahid Mahmood 4, M Azam 2, Altaf Habib 2.
Third place play-off:
Wapda bt Railways 81-51
Wapda: Ahmed Jan 20, Jahangir Khan 13, Prem Shahzad 11, M Ishaq 10, Asher 10, Jahangir Khan 13, Mubashir 5, Adeel 4.
Railways: Liaquat Ali 11, Allah Bakhsh 16, Shahzad Khurshid 10, Azhar Qayyum 5, M Nawab 4, M Suhaib 2, Arif Khan 2.—APP
