Mumbai Garuda remained unbeaten in the league stage with a 4-3 victory over Haryana Hammers in their last round robin match to top the table in the Pro Wrestling league here on Thursday.
Mumbai Garuda rode on brilliant performances by captain Adeline Gray, Giorgi Sakandelidze and Ritu Phogat besides others to win their fifth match in as many outings and maintain their unbeaten record in the tournament.
Mumbai Garuda took an early 1-0 lead as Rahul Aware bagged the opening bout 7-2 over Nitin Kumar of Haryana Hammers in men's 57kg.
In the absence of Yogeshwar Dutt, who got injured just before the match on Thursday, Oksana Herhel captained the Haryana side and led from the front with a 4-2 win over Mumbai's Sakshi Malik in women's 58kg.
The World Championship gold medallist ended round one with a 4-0 lead but in the second round she failed to bag any more points. Sakshi, on the other hand, gained two points in the second mainly due to the two cautions issued to Oksana.
In the end, the costliest buy of the tournament, Oksana managed to maintain a slender edge and helped her team tie the scores 1-1.
In men's 74kg, livan lopez Azcuy then gave Haryana Hammers an upper hand with an 11-0 win by technical superiority over Pardeep of Mumbai Garuda.
However, the scores were yet again tied 2-2 with Mumbai's icon player and captain Adeline Gray winning her bout 7-1 against Geetika Jakhar of Haryana Hammers in women's 69kg.
Adeline, a world Championship gold medallist in 2012, 2014 and 2015, led 3-0 at the break and then won four successive points in the next round to get the better of the Indian, who, on her part, gave a tough fight to her higher ranked opponent and also bagged a point in the process.
Mumbai Garuda's Giorgi Sakandelidze then expectedly gave Mumbai a 3-2 lead by registering a 10-0 win by technical superiority over Hitender of Haryana in men's 125kg.
Trailing 2-3, Haryana Hammers needed to win the next bout and keep their chances alive, but Ritu Phogat of Mumbai Garuda did enough to eke out a 5-4 win over Nirmal Devi in women's 48kg.