ONGC men retain trophy, Chattisgarh women champions

Defending Champions ONGC, Dehradun, retainined the trophy for the third consecutive time by defeating arch rivals and last year runners IOB, Chennai 55-52 in the men's category of the 31st Federation Cup Basket Ball championship here today.
In the women's category Chattisgarh emerged champions by defeating Southern Railways 77-67.
Amrithpal Singh and Vishesh Bhriguvanshi scored 17 points each for the winners while Prasanna Venkatesh 14 and Pratham Singh with 11 points played well for the Bank.
Chattisgarh, who were runners last year, defeated Southern Railway 77-67 to annex women's trophy, just leading by two points at half time with score reading 44-42.

Poonam Chaturvedi and Sharanjeet Kaur played well for the winners scoring 28 and 27 points respectively, while P Anitha scored 23 and S Neena 17 for Railways.