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July 17th 2017Kochi Moretha300 former Internationals former captains, coaches from all over India and Abroad are there at the Indoor Stadium Kadavanthara Kochi there to bounce back their old memories of basketball

The presence of Ajmer Singh top scorer for India at the Mosco Olympics 32 years ago, made his presence felt along with the 82`year`old P N Sankaran former secretary general of Basketball Federation of India who flown from Bangalore to attend.

Team Rebound is the brain child of like-minded and Committed former Players of Kerala, who came forward to reinforce the vision of promoting and popularizing the game of Basketball

A bunch of former Internationals, which includes Former Indian Captains Unvin JAntony C V sunny Leelamma Santhosh along with Internationals Mohammed Iqbal Jeena Zacharia, Molly Mathew, Sheeba Mma Augustine, Joshyama Geoge, V V Harilal, Renny Harilal, Zacharia Thomas etc participated in the veteran matches for women above 30, three teams, men above 40, 8tams and above 55, 3 teams.

The matches cherish their old memories, on and off the court.

In above 55 section 3 team Round robin match Scoots took the title defeating Hercules and Monks team below 55 division Choice Cheetas defeated Muthoot Tigers 43-30 and women section Global Garments took the title defeating Pearl Topas 29-28

In free Throw competitions Men Below 55 Seby V Bastin Ernakulam came first Kuriakuttyy – from Kunnamkulam took the second spot in Above 55 category N M G Prasad Alapuzha took the 1st spot while Thomas Varghese from Thiruvananthapuram came second in Women category Deepa Rajesh of Erankulu came first and Bimnu Cherian also from Ernakulam took the second spot

In three point competitions Above 55 Jose Kurian former state and chief security officer with Kerala Police Thiruvanthapuram took first spot and former Customs Player from Alappuzha N M G Prasad- Alappuzha stood second Place In Below 55 former Indian Captain Unwin J Antony Thiruvanthapuram Came to first and former services player Amarnath (Kannan) Alappuzha second

In Women category, Celine from railways took first and Deepa George of KSEB came second

First Gold Medalist of Kerla Honored

Kerala University Men team that took first ever Gold for Kerala in the year 1967 at Egmore stadium in Chennai which accidently the golden jubilee year for them were honoured at a function organized along with this
The function Presided by the president of Team Rebound International Muhammed Iqbal were Shri K Muhammed Y Saffrulla IAS Ernakulum District Collector and Chairman of RSC was the Chief Guest on the occasion in presence of Arjunaawardee and Olympian Ajmeer Singh as Guest of honor over the function.

Alam Nettikadan welcomed the gathering and tose who spoke on the occasion includes PJ Sunny President Kerala Basketball Association Nisha deputy collector Ernakulum and Vote of Thanks Anil Kumar Chief engineer KSEB
The recipients Includes M ranganathan, K k Kochukuttan,Jaconb Thomas, G Krishna Moorthy, Felix, Dr MM Chacko, K M Jaison, and P Jacob

Kerala Youth and Women Team Honored also Honoured

The function also honored the Kerala Senior Women team which brought Gold to Kerala after 32 years and the State Youth team that took Gold after 30 years were also honored by Olympian Arjuna Awardee Ajmeer Singh