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Puducherry, 14th January 2017: Kerala women crowned the women championship defeating Telengann 68-59 a the team who stunned the defending champions Indian railways title coming to Kerala after a gap of 32 years here at the 67th Senior National Basketball Championship here at the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Puducherry

In the women final Kerala started with a 7-1 lead but telenganncame back strongly to end the 1st quarter leading 19-14 and end the half time with 34-28 lead and ended the third quarter leading 51-46 but in the final quarter Jeena rose on to the occasion along with Rojamol and Anjanna to level the score at 51-51 and the last minutes of the game Jeena mad her experience to Put kerala the champions with the score 68-59 Jeena lead the scoring chart for Kerala with 20 points followed by Anjanna and Rojamol scoring 10 points each for Telenganna Gayathri was the leading architect with 15 points to her credit.

This was Kerala’s Second ever title last they won was at Cuttack in !984-85 and Find the finals only 8 times Kerala had lost the finals to Indian railways last year

The team was coached by Antony Stephan from Kerala State Sorts Council e who took the Women National Games Gold for Kerala at Kannur last year

Incidentally he was a Player of Kerala Police when K V Alexander who coached Kerala Police at that time was the Coach of Kerala Team that won the Gold at Cuuttack 32 years Back

Earlier Kerala Men a junior Outfit also had a Good game finished 5th Spot bettering last years 8th Spot defeating harayana ys 64-54

Bronze for Indian railways women and Punjab Men

Indian railways dfeated Chhattisgarh 84-77 in the women section and Punjab beat Rajasthan 88-70 to take the bronze

Detailed Scores: Women Final

• Kerala (Jeena PS 20, Rojamol G 10, Anjana PG 10, Greema Merlin 8) bt Telangana (M. Gayatri 16, Ramya R. 15, Suganya 12, Aishwarya Nataraj 8) 68-59 (14-19, 12-15, 20-17, 22-8)

WOMEN: 3rd & 4th Place Match:

• Indian Railways (Navaneetha PU 21, Sruthi Menon 16, Madhu Kumar 15, Sitamani Tudu 11) bt Chhattisgarh (Poonam Chaturvedi 31, Sangeeta Kaur 13) 84-77 (25-18, 17-15, 25-14, 17-30)

MEN: 3rd & 4th Place Match:

• Punjab (Talwinder Jit Singh Sahi 21, Rajveer Singh 18, Gurvinder Singh Gill 16, Arshpreet Singh Bhullar 14) bt Rajasthan (Vinod Kumar 22, Sharad Dadhich 18, Mohamad 13) 88-70 (22-22, 23-9, 18-17, 25-22)

5th & 6th Placement Match:

• Kerala (Albin Baby 28, Akhil AR 21) bt Haryana (Vikas Kumar 15, Pardeep Chauhan 12) 64-54 (17-15, 18-16, 16-13, 13-10)

7th & 8th Placement Match:

• Indian Railways (Somvir Chahal 37, Vijender Kumar 24) bt Karnataka (Anil Kumar BK 22, Mufeez Ahmed 14) 89-72 (14-13, 23-16, 23-31, 29-12)