KERALA BOYS DRUBBED KARNATAKA TO POST THEIR 3 SUCCESSIVE VICTORY IN GROUP A
05/07/2017
Hyderabad,4th July 2017: The relatively shorter Kerala boys’ team which already confirmed their berth in the quarter-final berth showed that size doesn’t matter as they more than made up for it with their hustle and intensity as they drubbed Karnataka 75-45 here for the 34th Youth National Basketball Championship for Boys and Girls witnessed Day 4 today at the Indoor Stadium, Gachibowli in Hyderabad.Kerala now has to play against Rajasthan to decide the group winner
In Boys along with Kerala Karnataka, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh Punjab, Maharashtra have made the final eight
In Girls along with Kerala-Tamil Nadu Madhya Pradesh Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh confirmed the berth in last eight.
Level 1 Girls
Tamil Nadu (Monica Jayaseeli 19, Pushpa 15, Lakshmi Priya 11) bt Madhya Pradesh (Ruchi Patel 14, Rajiv Desai 10) 67-42 [17-17, 16-11, 22-7, 12-7]
Boys Level 1
Kerala (Jerom Prince 23, Joshua Abraham 16, Abhishek Joseph Jason 12) bt Karnataka (Prashant Tomar 2, Pranav 11, Akshan 9) 75-45 [19-11, 26-9, 17-5, 13-20]
Karnataka (Akshan Rao 23, Prashant Tomar 15, Nideesh Naik 11) bt Haryana (Mukesh 36, Anil 7) 70-66 [21-15, 14-21, 17-15, 18-15]
Uttar Pradesh (Priyhanshu 34) bt Tamil Nadu (Gokul V 18, G R Balaji 11, R Harikara Prabhu 11) 65-59 [16-12, 15-19, 18-18, 16-10]
Tamil Nadu (Gokul V 27, G R Balaji 14, A Adhisiva 9) bt Chhattisgarh (Saif Ali Khan 19, Harendra Kumar 12) 69-46 [17-17, 20-11, 18-9, 14-9]
Girls Level 2
Haryana (Rupal 15, Varsha 10, Priyanka Gupta 6) bt Himachal Pradesh (Ramandeep Kaur 9, Ananya Sanoria 8) 55-25 [14-3, 15-7, 10-9, 16-6]
Jharkhand (Arpita Mohan 11, Anu Oraon 6) bt Bihar (Kavya Singh 14) 35-31 [14-12, 10-5, 6-6, 5-8]
Odisha (Lipramayee Satpathy 27) bt Assam (Lakshmi Kachari 13, Juhi Kedia 8) 42-23 [11-9, 16-9, 10-1, 5-4]
