Patrician Stars mark 1st win in All Karachi Bahadur Ali Shaheed Basketball Tournament 2019
Patrician Stars team defeated Usman Basketball Club on a close call of 39-37 in the match played into the 2019 All Karachi Bahadur Ali Shaheed Basketball Tournament which is being held at Arambagh basketball court in Karachi.
Patrician Stars basketball tea and Usman basketball club were battling for the win in the fourth match played into the tournament in which Patrician Stars team stunned the strong Usman basketball team as they defeated them by a narrow margin of 39-37 scores.
Usman basketball club gave tough time to Patrician Stars players who were all seen struggling with their efforts to score one after the other point into the basket as Usaman Basketball team was good with defence and blocking the opponent team to score but Patrician Stars team did not let them get pressured as despite the good defence of their opponents, Patrician Stars boys ducked points which at the end, declared them the winner of the game.
It was a thrilling contest between both the team. Players from the winning team that earned their team the victory of the match were John Reuters, Stephen and Richard who each dubbed 10, 08 and 07 successful points while Usman Yousuf, Usman Khawaja and Shariq proved to be the best players to score maximum points for Usman basketball club that is, 10 and 09 points, respectively.
National basketball selector, Abdul Nasir Hayat was the chief guest who witnessed this match and later lauded the organizers for holding an event to pay homage to Shaheed police officer Bahadur Ali who laid his life while fighting terrorism.
Karachi Basketball Association in collaboration with PSWA has organized All Karachi Bahadur Ali Shaheed Basketball Tournament into the current year which is featuring a total of about six (6) teams who have lined up to compete in the matches and these teams have been divided into two pools. Players from their respective teams are seen battling for the ultimate title win of the tournament.
