Inter House Basketball Competition 2019-20

The annual Inter House Basketball Competition was organised at AVM in the month of October 2019. This competition was welcome with a great deal of passion by the students. It started on 1^st October extending to 5^th October. All these five days, the students were ever in thoughts about the competition and tirelessly kept on cheering for their respective houses.

Schedule of the competition:

DATE	DAY	SUB-JUNIOR (STD. 4 to 6)	JUNIOR (STD. 7−8)	SENIOR (STD. 9−11)
1st Oct’19	Tuesday		Shivam vs Suhradam	Satyam vs Sundaram
2nd Oct’19	Wednesday	Shivam vs Sundaram and Satyam vs Suhradam	Satyam vs Sundaram	Shivam vs Suhradam
3rd Oct’19	Thursday	3rd place	3rd place	3rd place
5th Oct’19	Saturday	Final	Final	Final

 

The competition had two knockout matches for each house. The winners of the 1^st knockout match and the 2^nd knockout match were to shake hands in the final. And the other two teams would meet for a third place match.

On Tuesday, 1^st October 2019, the competition started with matches in the Junior group. It started with the match between Shivam and Suhradam in which Shivam had a fresh start with a comfortable margin of 19-4. After that, in the Seniors, Satyam House team played against the Sundaram House team, in which Satyam won with an invincible score of 24-9.

Wednesday, 2^nd October 2019 marked the beginning of the competition in the Sub-Junior group. The 1^st match was played between Shivam and Sundaram, in which the green army won the match with a score of 6-14. The 2^nd match was played between Satyam and Suhradam, in which Suhradam won with a comfortable margin of 6-20. Now it was turn for the Juniors and Seniors to showcase their talent. In the Juniors, the match was played between Satyam and Sundaram, in which Sundaram had an easy win over purple army with a score of 4-16. In the Seniors, the match was played between Shivam and Suhradam, in which Suhradam won the match comfortably with scores 23-8.

On Saturday, 5^th October 2019, we had all the Finals of each group. It started off with the Sub-Juniors, in which the final match was played between Sundaram and Suhradam.  In this category, Sundaram end up as champions with a score of 4-16. We had an early match between Shivam and Sundaram in the Junior group in which the boys in blues won with a comfortable margin of 30-8. In the Seniors, we had an equal team on both the sides, this nail biting match began and ended with a score of 30-30. The match went on with extra time in which the scores remained levelled: 37-37. At last, the orange army won with a narrow margin of 39-37. This final match turned out to be one of the most exciting matches in our memories at AVM.

Indeed, we all witnessed a very thrilling competition!

Following is the overall result of the competition:

HOUSES	SUB-JUNIOR (STD. 4 TO 6)	JUNIOR (STD. 7−8)	SENIOR (STD. 9 TO 11)	TOTAL POINTS	RANK
Satyam	4	4	8	16	3rd
Shivam	6	10	4	20	2nd
Sundaram	10	8	6	24	1st
Suhradam	8	6	10	24	1st

 

Reported by: Darshil Patel, Nishant Patel, Armaan Patel (Class 10)