Sports Bulletin Report
ISLAMABAD: Lahore Division basketball team outplayed Islamabad by 100-59 in the final of the Inter-Division National Basketball Championship 2023 to win the title at Liaquat Gymnasium, Pakistan Sports Complex Islamabad. Military Attaché of the Embassy of Russia in Pakistan Col Surgey A Tyurin was the chief guest of the closing ceremony.
The winners showed their aggregation in the whole match and garbed the final in a single-sided affair. Lahore spikers took the lead of 20 points till the half time of the decisive final by 52-32 points. Safiullah and Taimur Mehdi scored 21 and 14 points respectively for Lahore while from the Islamabad side Ashrab Butt scored 25 and Bakhtawar scored 7 points respectively. In the third position match, Faisalabad beat Peshawar by 55-43 points.