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Premier Handball League:<\/strong> Rajasthan Patriots ended their league stage at the ongoing Premier Handball League (PHL) in style, defeating their semi-final opponents Maharashtra Ironmen 35-30 in a confident way, here on Thursday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

For the Patriots -- the Krida Pvt Ltd own franchise, Manish Malik (8), Dmitrii Kireev (7) and Happy Singh (7) shone with the goals helping their team to their seventh victory of the season.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Manish Malik and Dmitrii Kireev walked away with the 'Goal of The Match' award and 'Most Valuable Player' award respectively.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Maharashtra Ironmen opened the scorecard in the first minute of the game and raced ahead with a scorecard, reading 3-0 by the 3rd minute. Soon after, Rajasthan Patriots answered back by scoring 5 unanswered goals started by their Russian attacker, Dmitrii Kireev and carried forward by Ahmad Al-Otabi as the scorecard read 5-3 in favour of the hosts at the 10th minute of the game.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Both sides were neck to neck by the midway point of the half as the score read 12-12. Patriots with the help of Happy Singh's conversions took charge over Ironmen and ended the first half with a 2 goal lead, the scorecard reading 18-16.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Rajasthan Patriots continued their dominance and stretched their lead to 5 goals through Kireev's powerful strikes with the scorecard reading 25-20 in 39th minute of the game.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The Patriots never looked behind from there and used the momentum in a rightful manner as the lead extended to 9 goals at the halfway mark of the second half with the scorecard reading 30-21 in favour of the Patriots.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Also Read: <\/b> Live Scorecard<\/a><\/p>

However, Ironmen tried to comeback in the game when they cut down the deficit to 5 goals but it was not enough as the Patriots outplayed them in every department to comfortably walk away with a victory with scorecard reading 35-30 at the final whistle.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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