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Kerala Girls finish 7th and Boys 9th
Puducherry, 7th February 2016: Chhattisgargh Girls will take on tamil Nadu while Madhya Pradesh Boys will meet Chhattisgarh in the final of the 42nd Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship, for boys and girls here at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Puducherry

In the first girls semi-final began post lunch Stadium between the Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra girls. The first half belonged to Chhattisgarh as they built a lead going into halftime. But the Maharashtra girls came out firing on all cylinders in the second half, displaying a dominant third quarter led by their offensive star Shruti Bhosale (16 points), who drove to the basket with success. After losing the lead momentarily, Chhattisgarh fought their way back outscoring Maharashtra by 11 points in the fourth quarter. Elijabet Ekka put up yet another MVP-worthy performance with 30 points, leading her team to the 66-61 victory. Chhattisgarh girls have sealed a spot in the final of the sub-junior nationals for the third year in a row.

In the Second semi final in an evenly fought match Tamil Nadu had a good start an took an 8 points lead at the end of first quarter but Chhattisgargh fought back brilliantly in the second quarter to end the half time with 26-26 and took and 3 point lead in the end of 3rd quarter – before finishing the match with the score 70- 57 pavithra sree came as the top scorer for tamil nadu with 20 points

In men first semi final defending champion Madhya Pradesh after leading 30-29 at the half time came on to beat Rajasthan 59-26 with pankaj leading the individual score tally for Madhya Pradesh with 25 points ?in second semi finalchhattissgarh boys also fins d aplace in the final beating Uttar pradesh 70-49 ?

Kerala girls finish 7th and boys on 9th

In the losers knock out matches defending champion Kerala girls had to satisfy with a 7th position as they beat Haryana 52-36 while the boys who beat karnaka came in the 9th position

Earlier Tamil Nadu girls clinched the final semi-final spot, defeating the Uttar Pradesh side by 16 points. Pavitra Sree led the charge yet again for Tamil Nadu scoring a game-high 25 points. Tamil Nadu led throughout the game and cruised to a 60-44 victory. They will face the Madhya Pradesh girls today evening for a place in the final.

After the classification games today morning The loser knockout finals also took place today morning with Punjab winning in the girls’ category beating Chandigarh and West Bengal winning the boys’ category defeating Punjab.

Results from Day 6 up to 3 pm

Semi-final

GIRLS

Chhattisgarh -66 ( Elijabet Ekka 30, Nagmani 9) bt Maharashtra-61 (Shruti Bhosale 16, Purvi 9) 66-61 (21-12, 11-12, 8-22, 26-15)
Tamil Nadu -70 (S. Pavithra Sree 20, M. Deepa D. 18, G. Hari V. 16) bt Madhya Pradesh-57 (Rajvi Desai 27, Shweta V 13) (20-12, 6-14, 20-17, 24-14)

BOYS

Madhya Pradesh-59 (Pankaj S. 25, Jeet K. 12) bt Rajasthan -46(Rajveer SB 18, Mohammad A. 9) (22-12, 8-10, 17-9, 12-15)

Girls Classification for7th and 8th places

GIRLS

Kerala – 52(Krishna Priya 17, Haleema Jan 10) bt Haryana-36 (Ritika 16) (11-9, 23-7, 7-14, 11-6)

Boys Classification for9th and 10th places

BOYS

Kerala-62 (Jerom Prince George 29) bt Karnataka -57 (Mas Sriram 10) (14-5, 9-12, 11-25, 28-15)

Classification for 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th places

Uttar Pradesh -42(Chaitali 15, Tripti 10) bt Kerala -34 (Bowri 11, Arunima 8) 42-34 (9-7, 6-9, 11-3, 16-15)
Karnataka (Reshma Rianna 12, Saliya Mulla 10) bt Haryana (Ritika 12) 46-30 (8-10, 20-16, 12-2, 6-2)

9th and 10th place classification

Rajasthan (Ritvika 9) bt Telangana (Lasya 10) 39-27 (8-4, 10-1, 6-8, 15-14)

Loser Knockout Final

Punjab (Sukhmandeep 19) bt Chandigarh (Prachi Bhatia 6) 49-22 (15-4, 18-4, 9-5, 7-9)

Classification for 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th places

BOYS

Andhra Pradesh (A. Sai Pawan Kumar 34, P. Venkata Raju 16) bt Haryana (Gaurav Sheoran 22, Hardeep 16) 77-75 (16-20, 18-21, 21-16, 22-18)
Maharashtra (Raza Shaikh 21, Pritish 18) bt Odisha (Tulu 10, Brahmanand 8) 62-51 (14-14, 8-11, 22-15, 18-12)

Loser Knockout Final

West Bengal (Rohit Kumar 14, Sumit Shaw 15) bt Punjab (Eknoor Singh 11) 55-48 (13-10, 12-12, 13-12, 17-14)

Results from Day 5

GIRLS

Quarterfinal: Tamil Nadu (Pavitra Sree 25, J. Srivarshini 8) bt Uttar Pradesh (D. Kapoor 10, Harshita C. 9) 60-44 (19-8, 6-8, 15-11, 20-17)