Pune: Ness Wadia defeated Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) 48-43 to enter the final of the men’s category of Fireball XIX basketball tournament being played at Bharati Vidyapeeth University College of Engineering.

The match was a close one right from the start as Ness Wadia led with the score of 21-19 at half time. For Ness Wadia, Pranav Dutta scored 24 points and Akash Sachdev scored 5 points. For AFMC, Arjun Rathod scored 6 points and Anirudh Tiwari scored 9 points.

In another match, TCS defeated BNY Mellon 45-23. Navneet Tiwari (9) and Arpit Shukla (4) got on the scoreline for TCS.
In the women’s battle, Infosys defeated Wipro 16-10 with Vishaka Sharma (13) and Shivani Poptani (12) scoring for the winners.

Results:
Women: Infosys 16 (Vishaka Sharma 13, Shivani Poptani 12) bt Wipro 10 (Smita Jha 5, Pranita Shukla 9) Half time: 11-2; BVUCOE 15 (Niharika Singh 10, Mrinalini Chauhan 4) bt BVUMC 12 (Malvika Sharma 10, Anushka Kukreja 20) Half time: 7-6.
Men: Ness Wadia 48 (Pranav Dutta 24, Akash Sachdev 5) bt AFMC 43 (Arjun Rathod 6, Anirudh Tiwari 9) Half time: 21-19; TCS 45 (Navneet Tiwari 9, Arpit Shukla 4) bt BNY Mellon 23 (Sundesh Agrawal 15, Yash Lokchandani 7) Half time: 17-8; BVUCOE 34 (Furquan Nayar 11, Piyush Sharma 30) bt AIT 20 (Samrat Sharma 15, Arjun Kukreja 10) Half time: 16-11; Redhat 30 (Arjun Sharma 11, Shahnawaz Khan 6) bt Infosys 29 (Suman Shah 23, Gursher Singh 3) Half time: 11-13.