Basketball Mania 2004

RIBS Clinches Fourth BIC Basketball trophy - 19 December 2004

RIBS College secured the title beating Himalayan White House College 55-45 at the Fourth Brookfield Inter-college Friendly Basketball Tournament final day on December 19, 2004.

Rupak Gurung scored 18, Nabin Shrestha 14, Tender Hirachan 11 and Pramod Grung eight as RIBS came back from a 16-10 deficit in the first quarter. RIBS made the decisive push through White House's resistance late in the second quarter. White House threatened to come back for some time, leveling twice after that but it could not keep up and lost by 10 points. Most Valuable Player of the tournament Binod Shrestha (from Hilmalayan White House College ) tried to keep the hope alive with a consecutive pair of 3-pointers twice in the last quarter but it wasn't enough.

A total of 16 colleges of the Kathmandu Valley namely – host BIC, Whitefield College, Himalayan White House College, Kathmandu Don Bosco College, LRI College, Sagarmatha College, Crimson College, Prime College, Campaign College, Capital College, Xavier College, CIT, Intensive College, Brihaspati College, had participated in the week-long tourney.

Minister of State for Education and Sports Bal Krishna Khand had presented trophies and medals to winning teams on the final day of the tournament.

Speaking on the occasion, he lauded the motto of the tournament 'friendship and fairplay through sports' and had wished for other similar extra and co-curricular activities.

Brookfield beat Prime - 16th December 2004

Hosts Brookfield defeated Prime 45-44 and entered the semi-final of the fourth inter college friendly basketball tournament. In other quarter finals, Don Bosco beat LRI 35-32; Whitehouse beat Xavier 56-13; and RIBS thrashed Campion Kathmandu 58-33.

Whitefield beat Brihaspati - 15th December 2004

Whitefield beat Brihaspati 31-13 with Karma's 11 on the last day of the league stage. Sajal's 15 helped Prime beat Intensive 57-27 while Don Bosco beat CIT 33-31 in a close match. Rajan Singh scored 13 for the winners.

The quarterfinals will be held on Thursday with LRI playing Campion Kathmandu, Whitehouse playing Xavier College and hosts Brookfield playing Prime.

LRI, RIBS enter quarter finals - 14th December 2004

Sunil Gurung netted 20 points as LRI defeated Whitefield 42-17 and enter the quarter final. In other matches, Rupak Gurung scored 18 points in RIB's 45-10 win over Intensive; Sadish netted 19 points as Whitehouse thrashed Sagarmatha 64-17; and Pawan Maharjan scored 18 points in Campion kathmandu's 44-20 victory over Crimson.

RIBS beat Prime - 13th December 2004

Sabin Gurung and Rupak Gurung netted 19 points each as RIBS defeated Prime College 53-41 in the day's match of the fourth inter college friendly basketball tournament, which haas been organised by BIC. In other matches, Campion Kathmandu beat Capital College 29-17; Whitehouse thrashed CIT 62-21; and LRI outplayed Xavier Int'l College 35-28

Brookfield in Quarters - 12th December 2004

Ishwor Chaulagain netted 11 points as Brookfield thrashed Crimson 52-12 to enter the quarter finals of the fourth inter college friendly basketball tournament. In other matches LRI Beat Brihaspati 52-8; Prime beat Campion Kumaripati 51-40; and Don Bosco beat Sagarmatha 29-13.

Whitehouse College Win - 11th December 2004

Sadish Pradhan netted 11 points as Whitehouse defeated Don Bosco 56-21. In other matches, Capital beat Krimson 29-20; Whitefield outplayed Xavier 50-42; RIBS edged out Campion Kumaripati 45-31; hosts Brookfield thrashed Campion Kathmandu 51-22; and Sagarmatha edged out CIT 39-38 in over time.

Brookfield starts with WIN - 10th December 2004

Hosts Brookfield thrashed Capital College 57-10 thanks to 15 from Ishwor Chaulagai today in the opening game of the Higher Secondary Level Brookfield Baasketball Tournament 2004. Xavier International College beat Brihaspati 42-17. Wisdom Pandey led the winners' scoring with eight but the leading scorer of the game was Brihaspati's Safal KC who shouldered his team scoring 10 of its total 17 points. In the last game of Day I, Karan Bahadur Shrestha scored 30 to give Campion Academy Kumaripati a 54-33 win over Intensive College.

Brookfield Basketball - 8th December 2004

Brookfield College is organizing the Fourth Inter College Boys' Friendship Basketball Competition from December 10,2004.

Sixteen college teams are competing in the tournament under four groups. In pool A are Whitefield College,LRI, Xavier Int'l College and Brihaspati Vidyasadan where as Intensive, Campion Academy Kumaripati, RIBS and Prime College will slog it out in Pool B in the league cum knockout tournaament.

In Pool C are Don Bosco, CIT, Whitehouse and Sagarmatha while the last Pool D has Crimson, Campion Kathmandu, Capital College and Brookfield College.