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Bambolim Goa, 11th March 2016: Entering the third day Kerala Women along with South East Central Railway confirmed the semi-final berth in Women here for the 30th Federation Cup 2016, at Syama Prasad Muakareee Indoor Stadium in Goa University

Kerala women won the second straight victory in Group A as they had an easy outing against Goa using their n full bench defeated them with the score of 35-17 with Kavitha Jose and Elizabeth hilarious scoring 8 points each while Telangana defeated Karnataka 66-44 and will meet Kerala in the semi Final After two victories South-east Central Railways, Bilaspur (SECR) in the morning, took on a young Delhi team and beat them 62-47. In Men ONGC & IOB are unbeaten and make the semi-final confirmed. Another highlight in women section was the 65 points by 6 foot 9 inches Poonam Chaturvedi then to go with a massive 23 rebounds as they beat Maharastra 107-82. For Maharashtra, Manish Dange (29 points) and Sruthi Menon (26 points) fought valiantly, In Men after two defeats undersized Kerala Police played and collective game today as four of them find double digits and after leading 47-35 at the half time surrendered to bNorth-western Railways, Jaipur (NWR) with the score 88-91 Both teams entered the game with sub-par records, fighting with Army Red for the second spot in Group B after IOB. It was a neck-and-neck fight throughout. The Jaipur relied on their height advantage to score 60 of their points in the paint while Kerala relied on their 3-point shooting, with a combined 9 triples coming 5 from Anu Mohandas (17 points) and 4 from Jomon Jose (19 points) while Jijo Thankachan had an excellent all-round game with top scoring for police with 22 points, 12 rebounds and 7 assists followed by Sreejith Nair with and for NWR, Prashant Singh had 32 points, including 4 of 7 shooting from 3-point range..

Detail Scores Final

WOMEN: GROUP A

Chhattisgarh – 107 (Poonam Chaturvedi 65, Saranjeet Kaur 15, Riya B 11) bt Maharashtra (Manisha Dange 29, Sruthi Menon 26) (33-16, 25-25, 28-19, 21-22)
Kerala -35(Elizabeth Hillarios8,KAvithaJose8) bt Goa 17
Maharashtra (Sruthi Menon 21 pts, Neha Sahu 13 rbs) bt Goa (Shaheen Rebelo 21 pts, Saachia Nathan 6 pts) 75-32 [31-10, 14-10, 15-6, 15-6]

WOMEN: GROUP B

South-east Central Railways, Bilaspur-62 (Sangeeta Kaur 23, Akansha Singh 13, Nikita Godamkar 9) bt Delhi-47 (Monika Vats 12, Sahiba 10) (17-20, 13-6, 20-13, 12-8)

MEN: GROUP B

North-western Railways, Jaipur-91 (Prashant Singh 33, Abdul Rahim Khan 20, Jainesh Patel 16) bt Kerala Police-88 (Jijo Thankachan 22, Shreejith Nair 21, Jomon Jose 19,Anu Mohan Das17) (22-17, 14-30, 34-18, 21-23)
Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai- 71(Pratham Singh 22, Vineeth Mathew 17, Siva Balan 11) bt Army Red-47 (Mayur Bhat 22, Ramesh K 10) (18-9, 19-17, 20-7, 14-14)
Army Red -74(Sashi Kumar, Amal James 14, Vivekananda Das 12 ) bt Don Bosco Oratory, Goa -51(Aaron Ferns 20 , Shawn Soares 13 ) 74-51 [24-10, 24-11, 15-11, 11-19]