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Puducherry, 5th February 2016: The last day of the league stages at the Arise Steel 42nd Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship began with crucial knockout matches in the early morning session. The top-placed teams of the level 2 groups took on each other for a spot in the pre-quarterfinal. Kerala boys squared off against neighbours Tamil Nadu in the opening game. Kerala started the game well and outscored their opponent massively in the second quarter (25-3). In the second half, Kerala held on to their lead, despite Tamil Nadu’s attempted comeback, and clinched a 78-54 victory to advance to level 1. In the other boys’ qualifying game, Karnataka boys edged past the Delhi side by a slim 3-point margin. Led by Akshan Rao’s 22 points, Karnataka registered a 64-61 victory. Delhi’s Himanshu scored 28 points in a losing effort.

In the evening to choose the qualifier Kerala boys beat Karnataka 48-40 and choose to meet Maharashtra in the Pre quarter-final while the girls will take on Madhya Pradesh in the quarter-final. The Telangana and Rajasthan girls teams also moved ahead to level 1, defeating Odisha and Himachal Pradesh respectively in comfortable fashion. In the level 1 girls’ games, Maharashtra were led by their best scorer Shruti Bhosale’s 17 points to defeat Uttar Pradesh 60 to 41. Madhya Pradesh girls got the better of the Delhi team in their level 1 game defeating them 52-30. The boys’ level 1 games, Andhra Pradesh boys set a new tournament team scoring record in the tournament putting up 105 points against Chandigarh. Md. Ghouse Mohiddin’s 34 points and Sai Pawan Kumar’s 30 points carried the AP team to the century mark. The Rajasthan boys beat Uttar Pradesh in a close game that ended 65-60 in favour of Rajasthan.

Results from Day 5

Level 1 Group B

GIRLS

Maharashtra-60 (Shruti Bhosale 17, Abha Lad 9) bt Uttar Pradesh-41 (Tripti Singh 10, Chaitali 8) (11-11, 7-19, 20-4, 22-7)
Madhya Pradesh -52 (Asmat Kaur Taunque 14) bt Delhi-30 (Kritika Dhingra 10) (20-18, 7-4, 14-4, 11-4)

BOYS

Andhra Pradesh (Md. Ghouse Mohiddin 34, A. Sai Pawan Kumar 30) bt Chandigarh (Gagandeep Singh 8) 105-32 (34-8, 21-2, 16-10, 34-12)
Rajasthan (Md. Aasif 16, Jaiveer 10) bt Uttar Pradesh (Priyanshu 28) 65-60 (14-13, 16-15, 18-18, 17-14)

Qualifying matches (Winner moves to pre-quarterfinal)

GIRLS

Telangana-53 (Dhatrinaina Devi Reddy 17, A. Jayanthi 14) bt Odisha-37 (Abhipsha Pattanayak 9, Lipramayee Satapathy 9) 53-37 (11-6, 5-11, 20-6, 17-14)
Rajasthan-44(Simran 12, Raksheta 11) bt Himachal Pradesh-32 (Ananya 14, Ramadeep 10) (12-10, 8-6, 10-0, 14-16)

BOYS

Kerala-78 (Jerom Prince 22, Yajurdas TD 13) bt Tamil Nadu-54 (Prabu Manoj 26, Sharan Kumar 18) (18-15, 25-3, 19-24, 16-12)
Karnataka-64 (Akshan Rao 22, Ethan Aryaan Martin 12) bt Delhi-61 (Himanshu 28, Ashish 15) (13-12, 11-8, 20-19, 20-22)

Loser Knockout quarterfinals

GIRLS

Andhra Pradesh (Venkat Lakshmi 9) bt Puducherry (Nila 14) 35-22 (6-9, 10-7, 10-0, 9-6)
Chandigarh (Gurleen Kaur 11) bt Goa (Katherine Barreto 8) 27-19 (8-7, 8-0, 4-9, 7-3)
Gujarat (Rachel 10) bt Bihar (Kavya 11) 36-23 (8-8, 11-0, 10-4, 7-11)

BOYS

West Bengal (Dipoke Bhandari 12) bt Jammu and Kashmir (Devyanshu Pandey 12) 53-23 (10-7, 18-4, 14-8, 11-4)

C 1 D1 Match to choose the pre Quarter

BOYS

Kerala-48 (Jerom P. George 16, Hari Govind SV 8) bt Karnataka-40 (Sashidhar B. 12) (11-9, 7-10, 17-8, 13-13)