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Hyderabad, 3rd October 2016: Kerala Girls taste their victory as they scrape past Uttar Pradesh 40-38 making live the chance for a Quarter final here at the  league stages of the 43rd Arise Steel Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship for boys and girls 2016 entered its third day today at Saroornagar Indoor Stadium.

Kerala girls after losing their match to Maharashtra Yesterday today played much beter game against   Uttar Pradesh girls who put up solid team effort but could not close out their game against Kerala,with Gouri and Ann mary scoring double digit of10points each but boys disappoint against bigger sized  Odisha boys and went down 26-24

The Delhi girls team continued their good run with a comfortable 49-25 victory against Himachal Pradesh. Point guard Kritika Dhingra led from the front once again with 19 points. In the other level 2 girls’ games thus far today, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh held their opponents to single digits in victories against Jammu and Kashmir and Odisha respectively. Anjali led her Chandigarh team with 19 points in the 37-18 win against Uttarakhand.

Defending champions Madhya Pradesh boys routed Andhra Pradesh 61-32 with MP’s Brijesh Tiwari contributing 20 points., while Uttarakhand sprinted past Puducherry for a 51-20 win. The Maharashtra and Karnataka boys’ game, however, was a real contest with Maharashtra holding off the Karnataka team for a 67-59 victory.

Late yesterday evening, the Rajasthan girls pulled off a tight victory against Haryana 45-40. The Haryana boys dominated against Karnataka in their game that ended 35 to 9.

Day 3 up to 2 pm

LEVEL 1:

Girls:
Group A:

• Karnataka- 47 (Harini MS 14, Janani N 11, Simran Agarwal 8) bt Haryana -33 (Sameeksha 10, Ritika 8) (18-8, 9-11, 14-7, 6-7)
• Rajasthan (Rashi Khotani 15, Akshita Tholia 9, Paridhi Gupta 8) bt Haryana (Sameeksha 16, Ritika 9) 45-40 (10-16, 8-6, 13-9, 14-9)

Group B:

• Kerala 40 (Gouri VS 10, Ann Mary Zachariah 10) bt Uttar Pradesh 38 (Kirti Nigam 4, Shreya Rani 4, Pratima Chauhan 4, Ananya Gupta 4, Chaitali Rajesh 4, Tanvi Suri 4) – (9-6, 12-14, 7-5, 12-1`113)

Boys:
Group A:

• Haryana -35 (Depender 9, Mohit 7) bt Karnataka -9 (Achintya Krishna 7) (17-4, 5-0, 7-4, 6-1)
• Madhya Pradesh-61 (Brijesh Tiwari 20, Virat Dhakad 11, Sachin Thapa 10) bt Andhra Pradesh -32 (Shaik Ahmed Alisha 8, KVV Ramana 6) (19-12, 12-11, 17-3, 3-6)
• Odisha  -64 (Brahmananda Behera 21, SK Fayazuddin 19, Rohit Bilung 14) bt Kerala-26  (Pranav Prince 8) (18-11, 11-9, 23-2, 12-4)

Group B:

• Maharashtra -67 (Imran Khan 18, Usman Khan 18) bt Karnataka-59  (A. Krishna 20, Shiva Kumar R. 16) (18-13, 15-11, 16-17, 18-18)

LEVEL 2:

Girls:
Group C:

• Delhi -49 (Kritika Dhingra 19, Trishala 11, Yakshita Jain 9) bt Himachal Pradesh -25 (Vanshika Nirala 10, Gagneet Kaur 7) (9-6, 16-4, 11-7, 13-8)

Group D:

• West Bengal 29- (Shreya Nath 12, Ankita Mohanta 6) bt Jammu and Kashmir 1 (Pranati Raj Tashu 1) (12-0, 1-0, 8-0, 8-1)

Group F:

• Andhra Pradesh 44 (V. Venkatalakshmi 17) bt Odisha (Akankshya Das 4) -8 (22-2, 15-0, 5-4, 2-2)
• Chandigarh 37 (Anjali 19, Payal 8) bt Uttarakhand -18 (Samya Ansare 8, M. Mansoor Wari 6) – (10-5, 2-0, 6-4, 9-0)

LEVEL 2:

Boys:
Group E:

• Uttarakhand (Vinayak Kumar 17, Ritik Kumar 10) bt Puducherry (Jagathesh S 7) 51-20 (16-3, 10-9, 10-6, 15-2)

Girls:
Group E:

• Jharkhand (Herlin Kaur 4, Ashison Kujur 4) bt Bihar (Shubhra Dutt 1) 18-1 (10-0, 4-0, 3-1, 1-0)

Group F:

• Andhra Pradesh (V. Venkatalakshmi 18, C. Archana 12, A. Jasmina 12) bt Uttarakhand (Chalsi Choudhary 7) 60-15 (9-7, 22-3, 21-1, 8-4)