HSC blues

The Sri Lanka’s top class HSC Blues and Avants ‘A’ have qualified for Saturday’s final battle of the Avant Garde Basketball Championship after two exciting semi final games at the Henry Pedris courts in the evening. Blues defeated Colombo BC in a hard fought low scoring semi final by 40 points to 38 after leading one point at half time (20-19) while the Avants ‘A’ edged out HSC Blacks by 53 points to 52 in the other semi final after trailing a point at the short break (26-27). Blues who maintained a superb record in the tournament received some tough resistance from the strong Colombo BC, performed with a good teamwork to clear their way to final. Both teams seemed strong at the initial stage, but Blues scored 14 points against 11 from the Colombo lads during the first quarter.