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Mysuru, 14th January 2016: Kerala women had no difficulty in beating Punjab ?to enter ?the Semifinal while a better credit to be given to the Men as they beat Chhattisgarh and ?then ?lost the quarter-final fighting to a mighty Punjab outfit here for the 66th Senior National Basketball Championship in Mysuru, Karnataka.

In the semi-final Kerala women will take on Delhi and Indian railways will meet Telangana

In Men Tamil Nadu will take on Uttarakhand and Services will meet Punjab

The women match were Kerala used his full bench had a comfortable lead in the first half of 33-10 and used their full bench was top scored by Jeena Ps and Neenumol with 10 points each

The men match were the Kerala team was handicapped tall center players played really hard in the morning to beat Chhattisgarh with the score 75-69 with monish Wilson top-scoring with 16 points followed by Young Jishnu Nair contributing 15 points but in the evening after leading 39-38 lost to Punjab 77-104 for Kerala substitute robin made 8 three pointers in his score of 24 came ass the top scorer followed by Manoj R with 21 points and Jishnu making 16 for the lost match

The morning session began with the women’s pre-quarterfinals. The Punjab women bounced back from their below par group stage performance with a victory against Rajasthan. Punjab relied on a team game and contributions from multiple players, with four players scoring in double digits to go with 24 points from their bench. Punjab centre Harjeet Kaur was a major contributor for her team with 17 points and 14 rebounds. Punjab’s used their size to their advantage, outrebounding the Rajasthan team 56 to 40. For Rajasthan, Nisha Sharma put up a game-high 30 points, but she had little support from her teammates. Punjab eventually cruised to an 84-66

In the other women’s pre-quarterfinal, West Bengal registered an emphatic victory against Maharashtra, continuing their impressive run in the tournament. West Bengal’s big three of Madhu Kumari, Anjana Dezy and malyalee Libina all scored above 20 points to lead their side to a blowout 82-50 victory.

The men’s pre-quarterfinals also saw a blowout victory with Gujarat comfortably defeating Haryana 88-69. Gujarat centre/ forward Dishant Shah was on fire scoring 30 points in the game. Gujarat established an early lead, which they maintained for the rest of the contest to secure a place in the quarterfinal, to be played against Tamil Nadu in an evening.

In the quarterfinals, dark horse Telangana picked up an easy win against a young Tamil Nadu team, despite some of the key players playing limited minutes due to injuries during the game. The Telangana side looked like a well-oiled unit, outplaying the Tamil Nadu team in almost all departments. Divya P. top scored for Telangana with 26 points and led her team to a spot in the semi-finals to be played tomorrow.

The other women’s quarterfinal was a rematch of last year’s final between Chhattisgarh and Delhi. This time around, Delhi managed to exact revenge against the defending champions. Chhattisgarh’s Poonam Chaturvedi, 2015 MVP, put up 44 points shooting 83% from the field. But her rebounding numbers were down, as all five Delhi players crashed the boards, making life difficult for Poonam. The rest of Chhattisgarh’s team provided little support to Poonam. Pratima Singh, who scored 36 points and had 7 assists, carried Delhi’s scoring load. Her sister Prashanti Singh put up 24 points and veteran shooter Raspreet Sidhu contributed timely buckets with 12 points in the contest. Delhi pulled away late to close out the game with an 84-76 victory.

The men’s quarterfinals began with defending champions Uttarakhand taking on the talented Indian Railways side. The match was evenly matched till the third quarter when an unfortunate incident led to the ejection of Railways centre/ forward Palpreet Singh for unsportsmanlike conduct. The game turned on its head after Railways lost their centre, and Uttarakhand dominated for the rest of the contest to register and 84-64 victory. Vishesh Bhrighuvanshi had a game-high 26 points in the victory and his teammate Trideep Rai contributed 22 points.

Hosts Karnataka took on the Services team in their quarterfinal match today for a spot in the semis. Karnataka regained the services of their forward and go-to-scorer Aravind Arumugam, who missed yesterday’s game due to injury. Karnataka got off to a good start, leading by 4 points at the end of the first quarter. Services fought their way back into the contest and led 35 to 31 at a half. The second half completely belonged to the Services team as they outscored their opponent 54 to 32, led by Narender Grewal’s 24 points and Joginder Singh’s 17 points and 6 assists. Karnataka’s Anil Kumar had 20 points in a losing effort

Quarterfinal

WOMEN

Telangana -70(Divya P. 26, Ramya R. 19, Anusha Anto 12) bt Tamil Nadu-52 (Varshanandini R. 10, Nishanthi Masi 9) (11-10, 17-5, 20-13, 24-22)
Delhi – 84(Pratima Singh 36, Prashanti Singh 24, Raspreet Sidhu 12) bt Chhattisgarh -76(Poonam Chaturvedi 44, Bharti N. 11, Saranjeet Kaur 8, Sangeeta K. 8) (18-20, 10-20, 32-13, 24-23)
Kerala-58(Jeena PS10,Neenumol PS10) bt Punjab-24(indukumari16) (23-10, 11-5, 14-7, 10-2)
IndianRailways 80(Rajapriyadarshini19,Smruthymenon13, Smruthyradhakrishnan13) bt West Bengal -24(Devi14)

MEN

Uttarakhand-84(Vishesh Bhrighuvanshi 26, Trideep Rai 22, Murali Krishna 15) bt Indian Railways-64 (Himanshu Sharma 16, Raj Kalbhor 12) (20-18, 9-12, 22-13, 23-21)
Services-89 (Narender Grewal 24, Joginder Singh 17, Jayram Jat 15) bt Karnataka-63 (Anil Kumar 20, Aravind Arumugam 12) (15-19, 20-12, 27-17, 27-15)
Tamil Nadu -82(Siva Balan 15, Aravind Annadurai 15, Prasanna Venkatesh 14) bt Gujarat-50 (Dishant Shah 14, Vinay K aushik 13) (22-10, 23-19, 21-6, 16-15)
Punjab -104 (TJ Sahi 24, Arshpreet Bhullar 20, Gagandeep Singh 17) bt Kerala -77(Robin S. 24, Manoj R. 21, Jishnu Nair 16) (17-23, 21-16, 34-18, 32-20)

Pre-Quarterfinals

WOMEN

Punjab-84 (Kirandeep Kaur 18, Indu Kumari 18, Harjeet Kaur 17) bt Rajasthan-66 (Nisha Sharma 30, Asha Naik 17) (21-22, 20-10, 20-27, 23-7)
West Bengal -82 (Madhu Kumari 23, Anjana Dezy 20, Libina MJ 20) bt Maharashtra -50(Manisha Dange 18, Shireen Limaye 12) (22-15, 18-16, 15-14, 17-11)

MEN

Kerala-75 (Monish Wilson 16, Jishnu Nair 15, Basil Philip 12) bt Chhattisgarh -65(Dinesh Mishra 16, Shiv S. 15, Rudraksh R. 15) (18-16, 13-19, 26-18, 18-16)
Gujarat-88 (Dishant Shah 30, Dhaval D. 27, Harpal H. 15) bt Haryana-69 (Bejendra Kumar 16, Deepak Rathee 15, Virender 13) (25-19, 21-15, 20-18, 22-17)