NATIONAL JUNIOR BASKETBALL
10/01/2022
Twin Final for Rajasthan
Chandigarh boys made their Maiden Finals
Indore ;-Rajasthan Boys and Girls entered the finals as they defeated Karnataka 73-69 and Chhattisgarh 73-59 and will meet Chandigarh Boys who defeated Uttar Pradesh 88-85 to make their maiden entry in to the Finals the girls will meet Punjab who beat defending champions Kerala 80-59 here for the 71st Junior National Basketball Championship, at the Basketball Complex Race course Road Indore , the Championship hosted by the Madhya Pradesh Basketball Association under r the aegis of Basketball federation of India
The first Semi Final in girls of the day where the lead changes 9 times and was tied up 5 occasions Rajasthan took an slender lead of one point at the interval (30-29) dominated the third quarter with an six points lead before winning it at 73-59 Rashi Kotani was the leading scorer with 27 points and with 18 rebounds was well supported by Ankita who scored 19 for Chhattisgarh Riya who controlled her team again came as the leading scorer with 18 points
Second Semi final in girls Punjab after leading 38-25 at the Interval came on to beat the defending Champion Kerala 80-59 with Manmeet Kaur and Kanishka Dhir dominated the paint as they scored 24 and 22 for the Victory for Kerala Sree Lakshmi was the leading scorer with 18 points
The 1st Semi Final in men where Chandigarh which was making their maiden entry in to the final trailed 60-72 at the end of 3rd Quarter came back and dominated the Final quarter to beat Uttar Pradesh 88-81Rohan Roy with 25 points and captain Amarendra Singh with 22 points did the bulk of the soring for Chandigarh Victory Kushal Singh was the leading scorer for Uttar Pradesh with 33 points
The last Semi Final of the day the favourites Rajasthan has to fight till the end to make an victory over a fighting Karnataka boys Rajasthan who had a good start of 23-15 in the first quarter ended the second half evenly with the same lead 38-32 Karanataka came back in the third quarter and took the lead 51-48 the final quarter saw some exciting lead changes but the end came in favour of Rajasthan Lokendra singh came as the top scorer for Rajasthan with 24 points and Achin Krishna j for Karnataka with 20 points
Detailed scores
Semi Finals
Girls
· Rajasthan-73(Rashi Kotani27,Ankita Kuamri19) bt Chhattisgarh-59(RiyaKunghadkar18,D Kirthi15) (14-13.16-16,22-16,21-14),
· Punjab-80(Manmeet Kaur24,Kanishka Dhir22,Kavya Singla15,Isha rani11) bt Kerala -59(Sreelakshmi18,Shilpa PJ10)((19-9,19-16,21-8,21-26)
Boys
· Chandigarh-88(Rohan Roy25,Amarendar Singh22,Harkirat Singh Siddhu10) bt Uttar Pradesh-85(Kushal Singh33,Robin Banerjee11,Aman Kaushik11,Sumit Diwakar10)(21=24,19-21,26-27,22-9)
· Rajasthan-78(Lokendra Singh25,Hemanth Nayak19,SDigvijay Singh11,) bt Karnataka—69(, Achin Krishna20, Joshua S Sajith 18, Manoj BM18,) (23-15,17-17,10-19,25-18)
Yesterday Late matches Quarter Finals
Girls
· Rajasthan-42(Rashi14) bt Karnataka-41(Sanjana19,Pavana11) (8-12,12-12,11-5,11-12)
Boys
· Rajasthan-74(DigvijaySing22,Lokendra Singh21,Hemant Nayak16) bt Punjab- 49(Karandeep Singh13,Vishal Sharma10) (24-8,14-7,19-12,17-22)
· Chandigarh -88(Amrender Singh 44) bt Tamil Nadu-84(SAjay37,Harihara Sudan18) (19-23,27-9,27-18,7-25,9-13)
