They came out all guns blazing in the second half and levelled the scores at 35-35. However, Kandola and Bharat ensured that the Bulls walked off the mat as winners with the scoreline reading 41-39 in the end.
Raiders Aslam Inamdar and Mohit Goyat helped Puneri Paltan get off to a fabulous start as they raced away to a three-point lead at 5-2. However, moments later, Vikash Kandola pulled off a multi-point raid as Bengaluru gained the lead at 8-6. The Bulls kept raging on and inflicted an ALL-OUT in the 8th minute to widen their lead to 13-7.
Aslam and Mohit kept effecting raids, but the Bulls managed to keep their noses in front. Bengaluru’s Bharat got on a roll and picked up a flurry of raid points to hand his team a massive lead at 28-14 at the end of the first half.
Aslam Inamdar and Mohit Goyat picked up a few points in the second half, but the Puneri Paltan couldn’t catch up with the Bengaluru Bulls. However, the Pune team kept fighting hard and inflicted an ALL-OUT in the 32nd minute and got closer to the Bulls’ score at 26-33. Goyat picked up a couple of raid points to reduce the gap between the teams even more as the Bulls held on to a slender lead at 33-31 in the 36th minute.
Moments later, the Pune team inflicted another ALL OUT to level the scores at 35-35. With less than 3 minutes to go on the clock, Kandola picked up a crucial raid point to hand Bulls the lead at 36-35. Thereafter, the Bengaluru Bulls held their nerve and closed out a narrow victory.
–IANS
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