After trailing until the third quarter, Punjab defeated Kerala 72-63 in a males’s league match of the 73rd Junior National Basketball Championship right here on Wednesday. In the ladies’s part, Punjab accomplished its league engagements by profitable all 4 matches after beating Uttar Pradesh 79-69 in a carefully fought contest.
The outcomes:
Men: Chandigarh 65 (Ravinder Kaushik 23, Himanshu Hooda 18) bt Karnataka 50 (Avinash Nayak 22, N.M. Vishnu 10, Prithvi Samaresh 10); Punjab 72 (Jessajam Singh 27, Bhanu Pratap Singh 20) bt Kerala 63(Muhammed Sahal 19, Mohammed Irfan 16, Jims Ok Joby 16); Rajasthan 92 (Muhammad Ishan 29, Akshith Hooda 21, Banti Choudhary 20) bt Madhya Pradesh 69 (Ajay 16, Goutham Pal 16) bt Karnataka 61 (Avinash Nayak 22, N.M. Vishnu 12); Tamil Nadu 85 (S. Deepak 14, Prahaladhan 13, Karan J Jayamurugan 10) bt Andhra Pradesh 58 (Sathya Prakash Gandodi 21, Anil Kumar 12).
Women: Maharashtra 76 (Sanika Phule 19, Bhumika Sarje 16, Mansi Nirmal 11) bt Chandigarh 45 (Arpita Dey 12, Anshu 10); Kerala 68 (Ok.A. Abhirami 24, P.A. Alka 16, S.P. Ankamol 13) bt Karnataka 45; Punjab 79 (Manmeet Kaur 23, Komal Preet Kaur 20, Mahip Kaur 14, Anchal 10, Nadar Dhillon 12) bt Uttar Pradesh 69 (Ruby Rajput 25, Nancy Gupta 18); Madhya Pradesh 56 (Ananya Maheswari 12, Kushi Pal Singh 11) bt Harayana 38 (Anjali Suresh Kumar 13).
