{"id":27955,"date":"2016-07-23T06:07:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T06:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=27955"},"modified":"2016-07-23T06:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T06:07:48","slug":"pro-basketball-league-punjab-steelers-edge-past-haryana-gold-to-book-semis-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=27955","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball League: Punjab Steelers edge past Haryana Gold to book semis spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-27954\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Punjab-Steelers-Haryana-Gold.jpg\" alt=\"Punjab Steelers Haryana Gold\" width=\"250\" height=\"173\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Punjab-Steelers-Haryana-Gold.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Punjab-Steelers-Haryana-Gold-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Punjab-Steelers-Haryana-Gold-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Pune:<\/strong> Looking to book a place in the playoffs, Punjab Steelers and Haryana Gold clashed in the UBA Pro Basketball League season 3 on Friday afternoon and after a hard-fought match, Punjab Steelers emerged victors, winning 94-91.<\/p>\n<p>Garry was Punjab&#8217;s star player with 28 points. For Haryana Gold, Prakash was the top-scorer with 22 points.<\/p>\n<p>It was a head to head battle from the start as both the sides tried to wrest the initiative and Punjab Steelers managed to take a slender lead of 23-22 at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The second quarter saw the Punjab Steelers in their element and were able take a lead of 51-44, thanks to some incisive play by Garry.<\/p>\n<p>At halftime, Haryana Gold had six points from turnovers while Punjab Steelers managed had one while in second chance points, Haryana Gold had five and Punjab Steelers, six.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter, Punjab maintained their lead and Haryana Gold had to play catch-up. Punjab Steelers finished the quarter leading 74-66.<\/p>\n<p>But Haryana Gold came out all guns blazing in the fourth quarter as Rajat scored some crucial points to help his team trim the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab kept picking up the points and with 59 seconds to play, had a lead of 89-88. A 3 pointer by Birender looked to have almost upset Punjab Steelers&#8217;s plans but they were able to keep their nerves and negate Haryana Gold&#8217;s late challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Steelers 94 &amp; Haryana Gold 91<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Steelers 94 (Garry 28, Harmandeep 19, Tita 12) &amp; Haryana Gold 91 (Prakash 22, Rajat 18, Himanshu 15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-27954\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Punjab-Steelers-Haryana-Gold.jpg\" alt=\"Punjab Steelers Haryana Gold\" width=\"250\" height=\"173\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Punjab-Steelers-Haryana-Gold.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Punjab-Steelers-Haryana-Gold-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Punjab-Steelers-Haryana-Gold-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Pune:<\/strong> Looking to book a place in the playoffs, Punjab Steelers and Haryana Gold clashed in the UBA Pro Basketball League season 3 on Friday afternoon and after a hard-fought match, Punjab Steelers emerged victors, winning 94-91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[13058,15052,466,15053,15116],"class_list":["post-27955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball-news","tag-haryana-gold","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-punjab-steelers","tag-uba-pro-basketball-league"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pro Basketball League: Punjab Steelers edge past Haryana Gold to book semis spot - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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