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Gregs win a thriller

Sports Reporter
The Gregs Club made a remarkable second half rally lo beat last year’s runners-up Dhaka Winners' Chib by a nar row one point margin in their last group match of the Partex First Division basketball league at the Outer Stadium wooden floor gymnasium yesterday But the result didn't stop Winners from reaching the super
thrilling victory took the Gregs to the top of Group B, But they are unlikely to retain that position for long as the fancied Azad Boys Club are almost certain to snatch it away this afternoon. Azad Boys Club, the only unbeaten team of the group, play their last match today against under dogs Back Stroke Boys Chib. If they win, which they are expected to do. they will go on to the super league with a clean state.
Top three finishers tn either group will qualify for the six-team super league.
Winners' Club, last year s losing finalists, started the match confidently, racing away somewhat loo easily to a 33-18 first half lead.
But in the second half, things started to change and they found it hard to hold on to their first half form as the Oregs eagers pulled them-
selves together. They launched smooth offensives and effectively thwarted their opponents' moves: in short they dominated in every aspect of the game
Faisal (21). Shahed All (12) and Khaled (10) pulled the Gregs baskctballcrs around from what had seemed to be a lost cause.
Tanu. Francis and Asif Hossain notched up 20, 11 and 10 points respectively for the losers but probably were blaming themselves for not being sharper in the second half.
From Group B, the Gregs Chib, Azad Boys Club and Dhaka Winners' Chib qualified for the super league.
Earlier, in the first match of the day, Dhumketu Club, led by a three-pronged attack Uy Shahln Mamun and Tlpu, tore the Dhaka Wanderers defence apart to march away with a big 101-50 victory and book their super league tickets.
Wanderers seemed helpless and short of Ideas as Dhumketu's Shahln (40). Mamun (22) arid Tlpu (20) drib bled and scored with absolute abandon dancing away to a 40 22 lead at the end of the first session of play
That margin proved too much for Wanderers and they wilted before the powerful Dhumketu attack In the second session in which they let their opponents cage in as many as 00 points.
Debashtsh and Suman scored 15 and 13 points respectively for Wanderers but that was nothing In comparison to the huge total compiled against them.
Yesterday's matches literally brought the first episode of the league to an end. The remaining fixtures of the first leg are of mere academic Importance.
Today's other match is be tween Wanderers and Hornets at 5 30 pm, the last match of the first leg.