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46th Sub Junior National Basketball Championship for Boys and Girls from  3rd  to 9th 2019 September

Venue :- Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium & Indoor Complex  Barabati Stadium ,Cuttack

Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra Girls and Punjab and Mizoram Boys in to the Finale

Cuttack , 8th September  2019:  Maharashtra Girls will meet Tamil Nadu while Punjab boys will take on Mizoram in the finals of the 46th Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship taking place, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium & Indoor Complex  Barabati Stadium Cuttack.

After the classification games today morning, Semi-final began with post lunch. Maharashtra girls after a lead of 37-24 at  the half time came on to beat Delhi 72-64, Sameeksha Chandak top scored for Maharashtra with 19 pts and for Delhi bulk of the scoring was done by their captain Reha Singh scoring 25 points.

In the Second Semi final in girls favourites Tamil Nadu has to find a double extra period to beat Karnataka with score 81-78 defeated Tamil Nadu which lead 32-23 at the Interval ended the 3rd quarter with a 42-35 lead but the fourth quarter saw Lavanya Sharma combining with Captain Yashaswini tp level the score at 60-60 and the first extra time ended with 71-71 the last quarter where Lavanya and Yashaswini sitting on the bench committing five fouls and Tamil Nadu had the last laugh winning the match at 81-78 Tamil Nadu Antheya daisy Played the captain role contributing 33 points for the victory  for  Karnataka Mridaya Sood was the top scorer with 16 points

In the boys Semi final Punjab  overcome  Haryana 61-53 and will face the winners of Mizoram and Maharashtra in final.

The 1st Semi final in Boys started with Haryana leading 18-7 in the first Quarter and finished the first half with just 2 points lead 25-23 Punjab took control in the 3rd Quarter leading 41-39 and finished the game with 61-53 for Punjab Rupansh Garg was the top scorer with 18 points.

In the second Semi Final crowds favourites crafty Mizoram had no difficulty in beating Maharashtra (91-65) after leading 42-27 at the Interval  Johan was the leading scorer with 20 points.

Kerala Girls Finished 5th

Kerala Girls completed the Championship finishing 5th as they beat Punjab with the score 43-25 with Tiona Anna Philip top scoring with 12 points captain maria Louis with 9 points.

Late last evening at the 46th Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship, the Mizoram boys which thrilled the crowd with their Speedy Classy basketball when they beat the favourites Rajasthan with the score  87-78 to make the semi Final line up with Maharashtra with for Mizoram lalliianmawia top scoring with 21 points and Jihan with 18.

In another quarter final match Haryana defeated Madhya Pradesh  80-62 to make the semi Final clash with Punjab.

The loser knockout finals also took place today morning West Bengal winning the boys’ category defeating Kerala 65-48.

Semi-final:

Girls:

Maharashtra-72(Sameeksha Chandak 19, dGunjan Manthri 16,PragathiNawale 10)  bt Delhi- 64 (Reha Singh 25)(14-14,23-10,17-23,18-17)

Tamil Nadu-81(Antheya Daisy 33, Juana Chrisolin 14 bt  Karnataka-78(Mridaya Sood 16, Lavanya Sharma 13, Yasaswini 10, Shreya Bose 10) (20-14,12-9,10-12,18-25,11-11,10-7).

Boys

Punjab- 61(Rupansh Garg 18, Yuvaraj Singh 15) Haryana-53(Sandeep Kumar 19, Kaushal 16)(7-18,16-7,18-14,20-14).

Mizoram- 91(Johan Lal 20, Emmanauel 10, Marius 14) bt Maharashtra-65(Shaik Taufiq 24) (19-11,23-17,24-19,25-19).

 5th and 6th Place

Girls

Kerala=43(Tiyona An Philip 12, Maria Louiz 9) bt Punjab-25(Tarushi Bhahe 8, Kamalpreet 8) (16-10,17-4,0-7,10-4)

Boys

Tamil Nadu-65(Harish Aravind 20, Abhimanyu12) bt Chhattisgath-54 (Shillendra 14, Sanju 12) (9-19,13-2,24-17,19-16)

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

Girls

Punjab- 55(Kohal Preeth Kaur 12)) bt Uttar Pradesh-40 (Himanshi10)

Kerala -64(Tiyona Annmary 28, Amanda 12) bt Madhya Pradesh—63(Gunvi Agarwal 10)

Boys

Madhya Pradesh-72(Rohan Shejwal 21, Goutham Pal 20) bt Chhattisgarh-57(Snaju Ghajnhiye 21, Shailendra Singh 12)

Rajasthan -95(Anuraj 31 Muhammed Juber 17, Dhannjay Jhakar 11) bt Tamil Nadu -68(Haresssh 27)

Loser Knockout Final:

Boys

West Bengal-65 (Sayan Dev Sarkar 21) bt Kerala-48(Johan 9)

Results from Day 5 after 8 pm

Boys

Quarterfinal:

Mizoram- 87(Lallianmawa 21,Johan Lal 18,Christopher 14) bt Rajasthan-78(Anurag singh19, Dhannjay Jhakar11)

Haryana-50(Kapil 19, Kaushal 17,Sandeep Kumar 11) bt Madhya Pradesh-62(GouthamPal 23)