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Victory for Kerala Boys & Mixed Luck for Girls but Qualified to the quarter finals

Puducherry, 4th February 2016: Kerala boys in level 2 defeated Gujarat 54-35 and will play against Tamil Nadu to qualify themselves for a Pre-quarterfinal berth while the Girls had a mixed fortune as they beat Haryana 63-45 in the morning and lost to Tamil Nadu in the evening but confirmed a berth into the quarter-finals from Group A here at the Arise Steel 42nd Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship which entered its third day here in Puducherry.

The league stages in early morning session of Day 3 was filled with level 1 girls’ games. Defending champs Kerala girls recovered from their stunning loss yesterday to defeat Haryana today 63-45. Krishna Priya once again led the Kerala side in scoring with 22 points. But they lost in the evening to Tamil Nadu with score 25-43

Karnataka girls suffered a loss today at the hands of the Tamil Nadu team, who are now the group champions from Group A. Pavithra Sree put up another strong performance for Tamil Nadu with 21 points. Last year’s runners-up Chhattisgarh girls continued their good run in the tournament so far with a 69-38 victory over Uttar Pradesh. Chhattisgarh’s Elisabet Ekka maintained her consistency with a game-high 22 points. Madhya Pradesh girls pulled off a 10-point win over Maharashtra with the final score at 51-41. Later in the morning, in the level 2 girls’ game, Himachal Pradesh picked up their second victory of the tournament with a 43-31 victory against Gujarat, led by Ananya Sanoria’s 17 points.

In the boys’ games, defending champions Madhya Pradesh maintained their perfect record with a convincing 94-31 win against Odisha. Pankaj Singh top scored for the MP team with 23 points. The Haryana boys got the better of Maharashtra today with a 63-49 victory. The Rajasthan boys team tasted their first defeat of the tournament at the hands of last year’s runners-up Chhattisgarh, who took the game 72-51. Tamil Nadu boys continued to impress with a big 43-12 win over the Goa team. In the other boys’ games, Uttar Pradesh managed to edge past Andhra Pradesh in a high scoring contest that ended at 81-71 in favour of UP.

Results from Day 3

Level 1 Group A

GIRLS

Tamil Nadu-59 (S. Pavithra Sree 21, G. Hari Vardini 20) bt Karnataka-36 (Anjali Venkat 9) (18-10, 8-9, 18-10, 15-17)
Kerala-63 (Krishna Priya SS 22, Haleema Jan 17) bt Haryana-45 (Varsha 11) (10-14, 13-5, 19-10, 21-16)
Tamil Nadu -43 (G. Harivardini 10) bt Kerala-25 (Manniya 6, Haleema 6) (16-8, 5-3, 13-6, 9-8)
Karnataka -36 (Anjali Venkat 9, Janani N. 8) bt West Bengal-22 (Asmina Khatin 8, Aishani Das 6) (15-6, 2-2, 7-9, 12-5)

BOYS

Madhya Pradesh-94 (Pankaj Singh 23, Jeet Kharwar 17, Manish Prasad 11) bt Odisha -31(Brahmananda B. 8) (14-9, 22-8, 29-9, 29-5)
Haryana-63 (Hardeep 15, Gaurav Sheoran 11) bt Maharashtra-49 (Raza Shaikh 16, Vishal Kumar Satyadeo 12) (15-15, 11-8, 20-18, 17-14)

Level 1 Group B

GIRLS

Madhya Pradesh-51 (Rajvi Desai 14, Asmat Kaur 11) bt Maharashtra-41 (Shruti Bhosale 21) (8-9, 6-12, 18-8, 19-12)
Chhattisgarh-69 (Elijabet Ekka 22, Sanskriti Singh 14) bt Uttar Pradesh-38 (Tripti Singh 8) (17-9, 24-7, 13-14, 15-8)

BOYS

Uttar Pradesh-81 (Aniket Singh 39, A. Kumar Singh 18) bt Andhra Pradesh-71 (A. Sai Pawan Kumar 24, P. Venkata Raju 21) (15-13, 17-22, 24-15, 25-21)
Chhattisgarh-72 (Rishab 24, Sandeep 14) bt Rajasthan-51 (Jaiveer 14, Ankit 11, Mohammad Aasif 10) (18-16, 10-12, 25-15, 19-8)

Level 2 Group D

GIRLS

Himachal Pradesh-43 (Ananya Sanoria 17, Ramandeep 10) bt Gujarat-31 (Khushubu 11) (13-4, 9-10, 7-10, 20-7)

Level 2 Group C

BOYS

Karnataka-46 (A. Sahoo 12, Shashidhar B. 11) bt Himachal Pradesh-43 (V. Verma 13) (8-12, 11-11, 13-3, 14-17)

Level 2 Group D

BOYS

Kerala-54 (Jerom Prince 17, Hari Govind 10, Yajurdas 9) bt Gujarat-35 (Rushal R. 13) (17-10, 20-12, 6-9, 11-4)

Level 2 Group E

BOYS

Tamil Nadu -43 (Salmal 18, Velmurugan 6) bt Goa-12 (Daniel Godinho 4) (9-4, 14-3, 1-5, 19-0)
West Bengal-46 (Sumit Shaw 15, Rohit Kumar Shaw 15) bt Punjab-41 (Eknoor Singh 14, Rajbeer Singh 10) (12-12, 7-6, 13-14, 14-9)

Level 2 Group F

BOYS

Bihar -77(Md. Danish 12, Dharmendra K. 12) bt Tripura-4 (Aftab Khan 2, Vibhu Singh 2) (24-4, 26-0, 14-0, 12-0)
Telangana -74(Himanshu 29, Ashish 11) bt Delhi-68(Shoaib Khan 21, Yaswanth K. 19) (14-11, 13-11, 18-17, 17-23, Extra time 12-6)