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Senior National Basketball Title for Punjab men, Railways women

Bronze for Kerala women and Tamil Nadu Men

Bhavnagar: Punjab and Indian Railways emerged triumphant in the men’s and on women’s sections in the 69th Senior National Basketball Championship for men and women here at Bhavnagar Gujarat.

The Punjab men beat Services 74-65 in a well-contested final with Arshpreet Sing leading the way with 24 points.
Punjab had beaten Tamil Nadu team 70-66 in the semifinal.

In the women’s final, Railways outplayed Tamil Nadu, winning 88-71 to regain the title.
After a close 1st half leading only 42-40, the Railways looked in control as they kept scoring regularly.

For Railways, Rajapriya Dharshi with 23 points was the top scorer followed by Navaneetha with 16 points while S Sathtya (21 points) lead the scoring for Tamil Nadu.

Honourable Governor of Karnataka Shri Vajubhai Vala presided over the valedictory l and gave away the prizes to the players.

Bronze for Kerala Women and Tamil Nadu Men

Kerala women retained their bronze medal as they beat Chhattisgarh 79-73 while Tamil Nadu men defeated Karnataka (84-69) to claim the Bronze medal

For the 5th and 6th Position match in women, Telangana beat Karnataka (54-42) and in Men (Utharkhand scrape past Rajasthan(54-53)

Indian railways men finished with 6th Spot defeating Haryana(74-65) while Punjab women grabbed the 6th Spot with their victory over Delhi (37-22)

Detailed Scores

Final
Women

1. Indian Railways -88(Raja Priya Dharsini23,Navneetha PV16,Ramya r13,Bhandhavya HM11,Sitamani tudu11) bt Tamil Nadu-71( S Sathya 21,S Pushpa12,J Iswarya12,N Nushanthi10) (18-23,24-17,27-15,19-16)

 Men

1. Punjab -74(Arshpreet Singh 24,Jagdeep Singh19,Amritpal Singh15) bt Services -65(Joginder Singh26,Issac Thomas 11) (22-19,15-14,17-18,20-14)

3rd position
Women

1.  Kerala -79(Jeena PS21mPoojamol KS18,Anjana P g13, Kavitha Jose 11) bt Chhattisgarh-73(Poonam Chathurvedi41,Seema Singh12,L deepa12) (20-8,22-25,22-26,15-14)

Men

1.  Tamil Nadu-84(H muin Bek20,Hariram19,Justin gnanaraj19,Jeevanatham10,rrikin Pethani10) bt Karnataka-64(Jeethendra Singh18,rahul Sharath16,

5th and 6th Position
Women

1.  Telengana-54(Aswathy jaysankar18,LSuganya10,Hemalatha10) bt Karnataka-42(Anusha IP11) (13,29-9,4-8,28-23)

 Men

1.  Utharkhand-54(Keshar Singh21,Mayuk Rawat13) bt Rajasthan-53(Sharath Dadhichi22,KamaranKhan12)

 7th and 8th Position

Women

1.  Punjab-37(Harminder Kaur14,gagandeep kaur10)  bt Delhi-22(Tavleen12)(23-9,6-7,4-2,4-4)

 Men

1.  Indian railways-74(Rajan18,gaurav11) bt Haryana-65(Pankaj22) (33-16,18-22,10-13,13-14)