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Mysuru, 13th January 2016: Kerala women Stay unbeaten in Group A as they went on to beat Telangana in a fashioned way with the score of 72-46, but the men team which was handicapped by a center player went down fighting to a taller Indian railways with the score 70-84 after leading 63-62 till the end of 3rd quarter here for the 66th Senior National Basketball Championship for men and women in Mysuru. Kerala women will now take on the winners of Punjab and Rajasthan in the quarter-final

In the league match in the women which two unbeaten sides met to decide the group topper Kerala started off in good style with leading the first quarter with 26-10 and was again top scored by Jeena with 20 points followed by Stephy making 14 and Neenumol with 13 Shilji also contributing 11 points for the victory

In the men, last league match Kerala played against a much taller outfit of Indian Railways lead 31-26 in the first quarter and even lead till 8 minutes to go for the final whistle .The absence of taller players in the side forced them to play with four of their players on four fouls which in fact helped Indian railways the victory and Kerala the chance to play a quarter-final directly and the result force them to play the pre-quarter final. Eudric Perera was the top scorer for Kerala with 16 points followed by Monish with 14

In an another exciting women match Tamil Nadu women defeating Karnataka in a double overtime thriller on a late match yesterday Gaining confidence on that thrilling victory, the Tamil Nadu women handily defeated Punjab 57-37 to secure a spot in the quarterfinals.

The Punjab women have sneaked through to the pre-quarterfinals knocking out hosts Karnataka on the basis of the head-to-head record between the two teams, rendering the result of today evening’s match between Karnataka and the Indian Railways women inconsequential. Maharashtra women are also through to the pre-quarterfinals with a win against Madhya Pradesh today morning. West Bengal and Rajasthan women will also battle it out in the pre-quarterfinals.

In the men’s section, the undefeated Tamil Nadu (Group B) and Punjab (Group A) teams have qualified to the quarterfinals along with the Services (Group B) and Indian Railways (Group A). The fourth placed Kerala men’s team from Group B are through to the pre-quarterfinals, where they will be joined by Chhattisgarh and Gujarat from Level 2. The remaining three spots from men’s Group B are still up for grabs depending on the outcome of today’s games.

In the qualifying matches among the pre-quarterfinalists for the level 2 teams, West Bengal women beat Rajasthan and they have decided to play Maharashtra in the pre-quarterfinal. Gujarat men defeated Chhattisgarh in their decider match, as they are yet to chose their pre-quarterfinal opponent.

Quarterfinal Line-up

WOMEN

Tamil Nadu v. Telangana
Chhattisgarh v. Delhi
Kerala v. [Punjab/ Rajasthan]
Indian Railways v. [Maharashtra/ West Bengal]

MEN

Karnataka v. Services
Indian Railways v. Uttarakhand
Punjab v. [Kerala/ Chhattisgarh]
Tamil Nadu v. [Haryana/ Gujarat]

Detailed Results Level 1

WOMEN

Maharashtra – 73 (Manisha Dange 22, Shireen Limaye 18, Sangeeta Mandal 18) bt Madhya Pradesh-56 (Sakshi Pandey 18, Anubha Thakur 9) [19-13, 22-12, 19-19, 13-12]
Tamil Nadu -57 (R Varshanandhran 20, K Prithi 11, Rejini Peter 10) bt Punjab-37 (Harpreet Kaur 13, Indu Kumari 11) [19-12, 16-10, 16-6, 6-9]
Kerala-72 (Jeena PS 20, Stephy Nixon 14, Neenu Mol PS 13) bt Telangana-46 (Divya P 13) [26-10, 15-11, 17-18, 14-7]
Tamil Nadu-88 (Varshanandhini 32, Ranjini Peter 21, Adhirai 12) bt Karnataka-85 (Bhandavya 34, Savita 21, Lopa Mudra 19) [18-19, 23-16, 20-14, 13-25, 7-7, 7-4]
Indian Railways-68 (Rajapriyadarshini 19, Anitha Paul-Durai 12, Sruthi Menon 10) bt Karnataka-49 (Bhandavya Mahesha 13, Savita S. 10, Lopamudra L. 10) (25-8, 20-6, 10-13, 13-22)

MEN

Indian Railways -84(Somvier S. 28, Palpreet Singh 21, Himanshu Sharma 12) bt Kerala-70 (Eudrick Periera 16, Ashwin Xavier Philip 15, Monish Wilson 14) (26-31, 23-16, 13-16, 22-7
Services-94 (Joginder Singh 31, Narender Grewal 18, Ashutosh 14) bt Kerala -68(Albin 17, Eudrick 10) (26-15, 23-25, 29-20, 16-8)
Tamil Nadu -83(Prasanna Venkatesh 18, Jeevanatham P. 12, Raghuram MA 12) bt Telangana -29(Ambathi Reddy 9)95-29 (35-14, 11-2, 17-5, 32-8)
Punjab-83 (Gagandeep Singh 20, TJ Sahi 18, Rajveer Singh 13) bt Haryana-66(Virendra V. 23, Satyajeet S. 12) (20-16, 18-20, 29-9, 16-21)
Uttarakhand-65 (Trideep Rai 24, Vishesh Bhrighuvanshi 20) bt Karnataka-58 (Sashi S. 11, Anil Kumar 10) (22-11, 14-18, 13-11, 16-18)

Level 2 Qualifying matches (winner decides who they play in pre-quarterfinal)

WOMEN

West Bengal-74 (Anjana Dezy 25, Madhu Kumari 17, Libina 16) bt Rajasthan-54 (Nisha 27, Kumud Khatri 11) (22-8, 17-21, 17-7, 18-18)

MEN

Gujarat -72(Shafiq 19, Vinay Kaushik 18) bt Chhattisgarh-61 (Dinesh Mishra 20, Kiranpal Singh 12) (22-17, 15-16, 23-11, 12-15)

Loser Knockout Semifinals

WOMEN

Bihar -64(Sravanthi 33, Priyanka 15) bt Haryana-38 (Garima 10) (11-15, 19-10, 18-6, 16-7)
Andhra Pradesh -54(Bhavani 25, Nagadurga 16) bt Himachal Pradesh-53 (Jyotika 16, Naina Devi 12) (13-14, 17-12, 10-8, 13-20)

Level 2 Qualifying matches (Level 2 to Level 1)

MEN

Chhattisgarh-88 (Kiran Pal 29, Rudraksh 16, Dinesh 15) bt Madhya Pradesh -83 (Prakash Mishra 48, Narendra 9) [15-18, 18-17, 26-23, 29-25]

Loser Knockout Quarterfinals

MEN

Andhra Pradesh -73(Tharun Kumar 29, Naveen Kumar 20) bt Bihar-53 (Deepak Kumar 20, Dhiraj Rajan 10) [15-12, 19-8, 10-21, 29-12]
Chandigarh -65(Ravi Bhardwaj 22, Abhishek Rathi 13) bt Uttar Pradesh-59 (Pulkit Sachdeva 17) (22-14, 12-13, 13-16, 18-16)

WOMEN

Haryana -39 (Sanju 11) bt Uttarakhand-35 (Mehar Sandu 9) [10-8, 6-12, 16-10, 7-5]