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Kerala Women Retained the Bronze Medal
Tamil Nadu captured Men Bronze

Bhavnagar 12th Jan 2019- 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 here for the 69th National Basketball Championship for Men and Women -in Bhavnagar, Gujarat.

In women 3rd position match after lea Kerala after leading 42-33 at the half time came on to beat Chhattisgarh 79-73 Jeena P S was again the leading scorer with 21 points followed by Poojamol with 18 and for Chhattisgarh 6 ft 9 inches Poonam Churvedi came up with 41 points.

In Men 3rd position match Tamil Nadu after a lead of 44-39 came on to beat Karnataka (84-64) Muiin Bek top scored with 20 points hariram with 19 points and for Karnataka, Jeethendra Sing with 17 and Rahul Sarath scored 16.

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).

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 harayana-65(Pankaj22)(33-16,18-22,10-13,13-14)