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Mysuru, 11th January 2016: It was a mixed fortune for Kerala on the third day as their women after the opening day win against the defending champions Chhattisgarh, registered another easy victory over a young and inexperienced Madhya Pradesh side with the score 57-31. JeenaScaria, one of India’s best players, shown her class today with 16 points followed by Stephy Nixon making 12 points. but the men went down to favorite tall and Mighty Tamil Nadu with the score of 46-73 after giving a fight only in the first quarter here for the 66th Senior National Basketball Championship for men and women here at Chamundi Indoor Stadium in Mysuru. The Chhattisgarh women also achieved back-to-back victories overwhelming Maharashtra by with a 27-point, the men’s home team registered their first victory of the tournament in dominant fashion against Haryana. Racing off to an early lead, Karnataka maintained a double-digit distance from Haryana throughout the game and ended up with a 92-73 victory. Centre AravindArumugam top scored with 33 points for the home team.

In the level 2 games in the men’s section, Gujarat went head to head against Maharashtra with both teams contending for a spot in the pre quarter-finals. Gujarat’s international guard VinayKaushikstarred in his team’s victory in an evenly matched game. KashiRajan, Gujarat’s point guard, also contributed majorly with 28 points, on 100% shooting from behind the arc. The Chandigarh men also made their push towards the pre-quarterfinals with an 88-59 victory against Puducherry. In the women’s level 2 section, West Bengal defeated Bihar by a massive 43 points while Rajasthan picked up an easy victory against Chandigarh.

Detailed Results Level 1

WOMEN

Telangana-66(Ramya 17, AnushaAnto 14, NatarajAishwarya 13) bt Maharashtra -53 (Sangeeta 16, ManishaDange 15) (17-14, 4-12, 24-13, 21-14
Kerala -57(Jeena PS 16, Stephy Nixon 12) btMadhya Pradesh-31 (RinchenBhutia 9, NimdoBhutia 9) [17-12, 18-8, 14-4, 8-7]
Chhattisgarh-72 (PoonamChaturvedi 23, SaranjeetKaur 17, SangeetaKaur 11) btMaharashtra-45(Sangeeta 13, ShireenLimaye 10, ManishaDange 10) [27-14, 18-10, 16-10, 11-11]
IndianRailways96(Navaneetha20,Rajapriyadarshini16, SruthiMenon13, SmruthyRadhakrishnan11)bt
Tamil Nadu-71(Ranjini Peter19, Varshanandini16, Soniya Joy13, Adhirai13)
Delhi—70(prasanthiongh20,raspreeth 20,prathima singh12) bt Punajab-56(Karamjeeth kaur19,Kirandeep kaur13,Niramal kaur10)

MEN

Karnataka -92(AravindArumugam 33, Anil Kumar 23, Sashi S. 13, Sashi Kumar 13) bt Haryana -73(Deepak 29, Vijender 18) (24-15, 38-27, 12-13, 18-18)
Tamil Nadu-73 (AravindAnnadurai 22, Pratham Singh 16, RikinPethani 14) bt Kerala -46(JishnuNiar 14, Jomon Jose 11) [15-13, 22-2, 24-17, 12-14]
Punjab – 65(Gagandeep Singh 16, Gurvinder Gill 13) bt Uttarakhand 57 (Vishesh Bhrighuvanshi 18, Trideep Rai 12) (12-17, 13-11, 26-17, 14-8)

Detailed Results Level 2

WOMEN

Rajasthan -53(Nisha Sharma 25, Surbhi S. Nair 10) btChandigarh-27 (Neha 9) (21-7, 12-8, 13-12, 7-0)
West Bengal -73(Anjana D Ekka 20, Salama Devi 12, MadhuKumari 12) btBihar-30 (GS Sravanthi 14, PriyankaAmbade 10) [25-8, 20-3, 15-8, 13-11]
Haryana-42 (Garima 11, Preeti 8) btTripura -16(Cheshta 7) (7-4, 15-6, 13-5, 7-1)
Himachal Pradesh -41(Naina 9, Jyotiba 8) bt Jammu and Kashmir-10 (Diksha Gupta 6) (10-4, 19-4, 6-0, 6-2)
Bihar – 65(Sravanthi 35, Priyanka 12, Divya 10) bt Gujarat-45 (Patel 13, Dubey 10) [8-3, 9-11, 21-14, 27-17]
Odisha-59 (Rajashree 18, Urbasi Malik 17, Suvanki 10) bt Andhra Pradesh -33(Bhavani 10) [18-13, 12-6, 19-7, 20-7]
Chandigarh – 45(Akshitha 17) bt Uttarakhand-27 (Shailja Aswal 10) (11-5, 19-13, 8-5, 7-4)
Rajasthan -58 (Jyothi 14, Asha Nayak 13, Kumud Khatri 12) bt Goa-11 (Shaheen 3) (17-2, 14-0, 17-5, 10-4)
West Bengal – 66(Madhu Kumari 22, Anjana Dezy 15) bt Puducherry -22(Manjula 8) (21-6, 15-8, 6-2, 24-6)

MEN

Chandigarh -88(Ravi Bhardwaj 18, Kuldip Singh 16, SartajSandhu 14) bt Puducherry -59(Vinod 16) (20-18, 31-9, 23-21, 14-11)
Himachal Pradesh – 63(Ashwani D. 14, Pankaj D. 13, Anoop D. 10)btTripura-38 (Vikram S. 10) (17-14, 12-6, 14-7, 20-11)
Gujarat -78(Kashi 28, Vinay 18) btMaharashtra-66 (Paras 15, Ajinkya Mane 14) [19-17, 18-6, 16-23, 25-20]
Uttar Pradesh -65(Bobby D 17, Abishek F 14) btJammu & Kashmir -42(Shalinder 13, Iqbal 10) [42-11, 0-0, 10-8, 21-15]
Maharashtra -71(Umesh 13, Rohan 13, Anjinkya 12) btArunachal Pradesh-29 (Ashish 9) [21-9, 9-14, 26-0, 15-6]
Chhattisgarh -85(P. Rajesh 16, K. Shiv Kumar 16, Dinesh Mishra 11) btPuducherry -45(Poovanan 14, Vinod PG 9) (26-16, 20-13, 18-8, 21-8)
West Bengal -74(S. Joshi 18, M. Kaswan 17, A. Singh 14) btJharkhand-33(Rounak 8, Rajkumar 7, Allen 7)(21-15, 22-9, 17-6, 14-3)
Rajasthan-73 (Kamaram 16, SaurabhBadaya 12, Satwant S. Dhaliwal 8) btMizoram -27(Sonu Kumar 8, Vishesh 6) (28-12, 17-3, 17-7, 11-5)
Bihar -46(Dhiraj 17, A. Prata Singh 9) btTripura-33 (Vikram 14) (13-6, 8-5, 15-4, 10-15)
Odisha -72(SashiKanta 14, Ashok 9, P. Suresh 9) btGoa -49(Aaron G. 13, Charles 10, Shawn 10)
Madhya Pradesh – 88 (M Parkash 32, Mahendra 21) bt Andhra Pradesh -66(D Vikram 30, N Kumar 9) [27-23, 26-16, 23-14, 12-13]
Chandigarh – 86 (Ravi Bhardwaj 27, Gurinder G. 25, Kuldip K. 17) bt Odisha-70 (Sashikanta Mohanty 29, Ashok Kumar Nair 14, Sravan Kumar 13) (26-19, 24-22, 15-16, 21-13)
Rajasthan -56 (Govind D. Khoiwal 17, Partha Sarathi 12, Saurabh Badaya 11) bt Bihar-33 (Hemanth Yadav 19)56-33 (14-2, 17-9, 16-17, 9-5)
Himachal Pradesh-47 (Prashant 9, Anoop 8) bt Mizoram-18 (Kamant 10) (19-8, 15-3, 4-4, 9-3)