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Puducherry, 9th January 2017: It was an glorifying day for Kerala as younger outfit absence from the players of central excise and Kerala Police with the college lad Akhil Ar leading the scoring with 29 points defeated Punjab 88-77 to make live their hopes into the quarter-final while the women celebrates jeenas Birthday as the India team star put up 22 points and confirmed their place into the Quarterfinals with their 3rd Straight Victory in group B drubbing Delhi 80-44 here for the 67th Senior National Basketball Championship, here at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Puducherry.

In other matches, the Indian Railways men looked like a cohesive unit in their win against Chhattisgarh. Led by the scoring of 2016 NBA D-League draftee Palpreet Singh (30 points), the Railways dominated the second half to close out on a 64-53 win. The Karnataka men continued their good run with a thrilling win against Haryana today. Anil Kumar top scored again for Karnataka with 26 points as his team held on to a slim lead and clinched another win (76-73).

The Railways women matched the performance of their male counterparts with a solid team effort against Chhattisgarh. DepsitePoonam’s 42 points, Railway’s balanced scoring helped them tip Chhattisgarh in a match that was decided in the final minute. Clutch free throws knocked down by Railways’ SitamaniTudusecured a 71-68 win for her team.

On the other hand, last year’s women finalists Kerala broke no sweat in a 64-23 win against the Rajasthan women the match which finished at 12 midnight with the team and officials celebrating the Victory of jeenas 23rd Birthday on the ground as both teams and officials joined the fray cutting the cake a rare occasion coincided.

The younger outfit Kerala men who had narrow losses to Karnataka and Haryana found their victory in group B defeating Punjab

Results from 9th January 2017 up to 1 pm

WOMEN

Level 1:

Group A:

• Indian Railways (Madhu 20, SitamaniTudu 14, R. Rajapriyadharshini 14, Anitha Paul-Durai 11) btChhattisgarh (PoonamChaturvedi 42, SharanjeetKaur 17) 71-68 (15-14, 26-17, 17-19, 13-18)

Group B:

• Kerala (Jeena PS 22, Anjana PG 12, Rojamol 11) btDelhi (RaspreetSidhu 29) 80-44 (22-18, 25-3, 15-11, 18-12)
• Tamil Nadu (Srividya SS 26, M. Keerthi 21, R. Varsha N. 13)btDelhi (RaspreetSidhu 37, SushantikaChakravorty12, Vinti 10) 72-68 (16-16, 22-25, 19-14, 15-13)
• Kerala (Anjana PG 19, Poojamol KS 15) btRajasthan (Nisha 9, Kamlesh 8) 64-23 (23-4, 16-8, 17-3, 8-8)

MEN

Level 1:

Group A:

• Karnataka (Anil Kumar 26, Rajesh Uppar 14, Naveen 13, ArvindArumugam 12) btHaryana (Pardeep 24, VikasMor 16, Naveen 15) 76-73 (23-21, 13-11, 23-24, 17-17)
• Kerala (Akhil AR 29, Albin Baby 20,Gineeb Benny10 ) bt Punjab (Gurvinder Singh 22, Arshpreet Singh 19, Talwinder Singh 16) 88-77 [15-18, 24-18, 25-21, 24-20]

Group B:

• Indian Railways (Palpreet Singh 30) bt Chhattisgarh (Rudraks M 22, Amit Rai 9) 64-53 (14-9, 8-17, 25-14, 17-13)

Level 2:

GroupB:

• Uttarakhand (Amritpal Singh 28, Vishesh Bhriguvanshi 18, Trideep Rai 14) bt Tamil Nadu (Prasanna Venkatesh 24, Akhilan Pari 12, Vineeth Revi Mathew 10) 69-67 [17-19, 13-12, 14-18, 25-18]

Group C:

• Chandigarh(Sahil S 13, AmitBishla 12, Jungsher 10, Karandeep Singh 10) btSikkim (Abhishek 10) 77-18 (21-6, 21-7, 15-1, 20-4)
• Telangana (Nikhil Sai Kumar 17, A. Muthukumar 15, Chris Viresh 13) btBihar (Sanjeev Kumar 12, Manvendra 12, Vishnu Kumar 8) 65-39 (16-19, 15-7, 12-8, 22-5)
• Delhi (Sachin Sharma 14, Himanshu Sharma 10)btGoa (DillanoMarchon 10) 63-31 (19-8, 13-7, 19-16, 12-0)

Group D:

• Himachal Pradesh (Sushant 18, Aman 10) btTripura (Ratandeep Singh 14, Sahil 12) 56-34 (18-8, 13-6, 11-8, 14-12)

Group E:

• Odisha(Sheikh Aftab 23, RK Sahu 15) btArunachal Pradesh (Himanshu 14) 63-33 (12-2, 13-11, 12-9, 26-11)
• Haryana (Pardeep 18, Vinit 13) bt Kerala (Gineeb Benny 14, Ashwin Philip 9) 72-67 [15-20, 21-20, 20-17, 16-10]

Level 2:

Group D:

• Telangana (A. Muthukumar 26, M. Vijay Kumar 15, Nikhil Sai Kumar 10) btTripura (Ratandeep Singh 10, Sahil 10) 59-33 (19-7, 19-11, 19-2, 2-13)