Stags win title
DHARAN: Itahari Stags won the Dharan qualifiers of the Nepal Basketball League 3X3 East here on Saturday.
Stags defeated Horizon ‘A’ 13- 10 in final. Earlier, Stags defeated their ‘B’ team and Horizon beat their ‘C’ team in the semi-finals. A total of 16 teams took part in the tournament.
The finalists — Stags and Horizon — qualified for the finals to be held in Birtamode on August 27.
Eastern Swish and Bal Kalyan Vidhya Mandir had earned the finals berths from Biratnagar on Friday. The third and final tournament of the series will be played in Birtamode on Sunday and top two teams from that venue will complete the finals lineup.
After the completion of the tournament in East, the organisers, Nepal Basketball League and Play for Deprived Children Nepal, will organise similar tournaments in three cities of the Western region — Dhangadhi, Pokhara and Butwal. Top two teams from the three cities will compete in the NBL 3X3 West finals in Dhangadhi.