61ST NATIONAL SCHOOL GAMES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS UNDER 19 DIVISIONS AT NEW DELHI
07/01/2016
Boy’s finish 4th
Tiruvalla January 7th 2016: Kerala Girls took the Bronze medal as they beat Maharashtra 61-46 while the boys Lost their 3rd Position Match to Punjab 81-87 in an evenly poised match rather can say after leading all the quarters then went down to Punjab here for the 61st National School Games U19 Basketball Championship at New Delhi, earlier In the Semi-finals Kerala boys lost to Chhattisgarh 55-81 while the Girls lost their match to Delhi withthe score 26-57
In an exciting quarter final Kerala Boys defeated Rajasthan 87-85 while the girls had an easy victory over Chhattisgarh with the score 72-22
Kerala School Under 19 team
Kerala team was lead by Nivya Raj from St Michaels Kozhikode and Gineeb Benny from Little Flower HSS Koratty and was coached by Winny Bestine from Little Flower Hss koratty and Sujitnh C Mandadan from St Josephs Kalady .the team as follows
U19 GIRLS
Nivya Raj(captian), Aswathy Jayasankar(St.Michales Kozhikode) Aiswarya Sabu, Rosemary Sajan, Lithara K C(Govt VHSS Kannur)Sneha Sebastian, Aleena Seby, Ann Treesa Seby(LFCHSS Koratty) Priyatha Devadas, Akhila Mohan(Presentation HSS Kozhikode) Sneha Thomas( Girideepam Kottayam) Gowripriya Satheesh(Mount Carmel HSS Kottayam) Winny Bestine(coach) Jyothirmayee K M(Manager)
U19 BOYS
Gineeb Benny(captian), Indian Nelson(LFCHSS Koratty), Harikrishnan Haridas, Alex Jose(St.Josephs HSS Pulicunoo), Jacob Jaimon, Akhil B(St.Ephrems HSS Mannanam)Amal Nair, Gokul G.( St.Josephs HSS Thiruvanathapuram) Shamil Shamsudeen(Donbosco Irinjalakuda) Gokul Gopinath(Girideepam Kottayam) Ebin wilson(GHSS Muppathedom) Santhosh P. Jiji(Cherupushpam HSS Chanadanakampara) Sujith C. Manadan(coach) Shaju A M(Manager)
DETAILED SCORES BRONZE GIRLS
Kerala -61(Nivyaraj 23,Lithara 11) bt Maharastra-46(shristi18,Rasika Pandey10) (20-9,12-8,11-14,18-15)
BOYS SEMI FINAL
Chattisgargh-55(Midhun21,Arwind12) bt Kerala-31(Gineeb Benny15,AmalNair11) (11-9,18-6,19-16,33-24)
GIRLS SEMI FINAL
Delhi-57(Pllavi Kumari16,Nishita Sabarval14,Sushanthika12) bt Kerala-26(Aswathi Jyasankar8) 13-4,17-9,16-4,11-9)
QUARTER FINALS BOYS
Kerala-87(Ebin Wilson24,Amal 14,akil 12) bt Rajasthan-85
QUARTER FINALS GIRLS
Kerala- 72(Nivyaraj38,) Chhattisgarh-22
LEAGUE ROUND BOYS
Kerala-55(Gineeb Benny14) bt Meghalaya – 4
Kerala-52(Jacob Anil10,Anil Nair10) bt Karnataka- 36)
LEAGUE ROUND GIRLS
Kerala- 38(Nivyaraj12) bt Himachal Pradesh 14
Kerala- 40(Lithara12,Akhila Mohan10) bt Madhyapradesh 05