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Puducherry, 6th February 2016: The knockout stages have arrived at the Arise Steel 42nd Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship taking place at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Puducherry. Both Kerala Girls and Boys made their exit as girls’ who are playing quarterfinal the defending champions take on an upstart Madhya Pradesh side. In an close encounter Kerala took the early lead, but Madhya Pradesh fought back, with the score tied at the end of the 2nd as well as the 3rd period. In the fourth quarter, Madhya Pradesh put their foot on the gas and ran away with the game, outscoring Kerala by 10 points and pulling off a 43-33 victory. Madhya Pradesh’s Shweta Verma scored a game-high 14 points and for Kerala Heleen took 12an Krishna Priya came up with 11

In boys pre-quarter final Maharashtra boys dominated their game against Kerala, defeating them 81-54, led by Raza Shaikh’s 21 points, to set up a quarterfinal clash against Chhattisgarh boys. For Kerala it was again Jerome price who came up as the top scorer with 25 points

The early morning session witnessed pre-quarterfinal matchups with teams battling it out for a berth in the quarterfinals. Uttar Pradesh girls were the first team to advance to the quarterfinals defeating the Rajasthan girls by a 20-point margin (53-33). UP girls will now face the strong Tamil Nadu girls team in the quarterfinals today evening. The Haryana girls also booked a spot in the quarterfinals with a 55-52 victory over Telangana. Haryana relied on teamwork and contributions from multiple players to clinch the close victory. Haryana will face last year’s runners-up Chhattisgarh in their quarterfinal matchup later in the evening.

In the boys’ pre-quarterfinals, Andhra Pradesh pulled off a huge victory against Karnataka with the final score at 79-32 in favour of AP, who were led by their most consistent scorers Md. Ghouse Mohiddin (26 points) and A. Sai Pawan Kumar (22 points). AP will face defending champions Madhya Pradesh today evening in what is expected to be a cracker of a contest. Later in the morning, the quarterfinals began with two strong boys’ team, Rajasthan and Haryana facing each other for a semifinal spot. Rajasthan began the game well and maintained their lead that grew to double digits at the end of the 3rd quarter. In the final quarter, Haryana attempted a late comeback, but Rajasthan held on to register an 8-point victory 64-56. Rajasthan’s Mohammad put up 16 points. Uttar Pradesh boys also booked a place in the semifinals edging past Odisha in a high-scoring, tight contest. Led by Aniket’s 20 points and Priyanshu’s 19 points, Uttar Pradesh pulled away from Odisha in the final minutes to close out on a 6-point win.

Yesterday evening, on the last few of the league stage games took place between the level 1 teams to decide the quarterfinalists. Tamil Nadu girls marched ahead to the quarterfinals by knocking out West Bengal from contention with a 40-21 victory. Maharashtra girls also ended the group stages with a 59-32 victory over the Delhi girls. The final league stage boys’ game saw Uttar Pradesh handily defeating Chandigarh 69-28

Quarterfinals

GIRLS

Madhya Pradesh-43 (Shweta Verma 14, Anam Abbas 11) bt Kerala-33 (Haleema Jan 12, Krishna Priya 11) (8-11, 8-5, 8-8, 19-9)
Chhattisgarh-76 (Elijabet Ekka 30, Poonam Nayak 11, Sanskriti Singh 11) bt Haryana-32 (Ritika 23) (10-9, 35-2, 18-15, 13-6)

BOYS

Rajasthan -64 (Mohammad 16, Jaiveer 14) bt Haryana-56 (Hardeep 16, Vikash 12) (16-10, 7-6, 25-20, 16-20)
Uttar Pradesh-79 (Aniket 20, Priyanshu 19) bt Odisha-73 (Saurav Sahoo 20, Tulu Patra 20) (18-11, 18-17, 16-20, 27-25)

Pre-quarterfinals

GIRLS

Uttar Pradesh-53 (Muskan M. 14, Anushka S. 10) bt Rajasthan-33 (Simran B. 14) (17-7, 16-5, 10-8, 10-13)
Haryana-55 (Anjali 12, Neeru 8) bt Telangana-52 (Lasya ST 13, Dhathi ND 12) (9-18, 14-6, 16-18, 16-10)

BOYS

Maharashtra-81 (Raza Shaikh 21, Saad Shaikh 16) bt Kerala -54(Jerom Prince George 25, Yajurdas TD 11) (20-14, 16-14, 25-11, 20-15)
Andhra Pradesh-79 (Md. Ghouse Mohiddin 26, A. Sai Pawan Kumar 22, V. Sai Ganesh 14) bt Karnataka-32 (Akshan Rao 12, Aniket Sahoo 7) (26-11, 22-7, 21-2, 10-12)

Loser Knockout Semifinals

BOYS

Punjab-86 (Eknoor Singh 27, Rajbeer 18) bt Telangana-66 (Yaswanth 20, Shoaib 18) (19-16, 14-14, 25-21, 28-14)

Loser Knockout Semi finals

BOYS

Chandigarh-52 (Gurleen Kaur 28, Prachi Bhatia 12) bt Andhra Pradesh-50 (V. Venkata 19) (13-12, 11-9, 8-10, 20-19)

Results from Day 4 (5-2-16)

Level 1 Girls

GROUP A

Tamil Nadu-40 (Pavithra Sree 12, Hari Vardini 8) bt West Bengal -21(Aishani Das 10) (19-2, 10-6, 0-9, 11-4)

GROUP B

Maharashtra-59 (Shruti Bhosale 18, Abha Lad 14) bt Delhi-32 (Bharti 12, Tasa 8) (20-6, 20-6, 14-14, 5-6)

Level 1 Boys

GROUP B

Uttar Pradesh-69 (Priyanshu 26, Aniket Singh 10) bt Chandigarh-28 (Kanwar Singh 7) (29-4, 3-8, 21-3, 16-7)