Final Day Of The Jr National Basketball Meet At Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

It was mixed luck for Chattisgarh teams on the concluding day of the 60^th junior national basketball championships at Indore.

Chattisgarh girls outplayed Kerala 97-64, while Chattisgarh boys team went down fighting to Delhi.

In the girls final, determined Chattisgarh cagers came from behind to overpower tall Kerala girls to take the days honours.

After struggling to gain control of the contest in the first quarter, Chattisgarh cagers combined well to stamp its authority by the end of the second quarter (47-39). Thereafter, eventual winners never looked behind and progressively added points to its tally to put the issue beyond the control of the opponents.

Chattisgarh owe its victory today to Kavita who played a stellar role by scoring 29 points. Kavita was ably supported by team skipper Aruna Kindo (19) and Sangeeta Mondal (16).

On the other hand, Kerala though dominated the first ten-minute (22-19), but failed to sustain efforts in the remaining period of the game. A gradual decline in the performance helped Chattisgarh enhanced the winning margin.

In fact, second quarter proved to be a turning point in the game as Kerala failed to catch up Chattisgarh. Kerala netted 17 points as against 28 by Chattisgarh. The story was same in the next two quarters too, with Chattisgarh dominating all the way.

With 20 points Neenu Mol PS was the main scorer for Kerala.

In the boys final, Delhi raced to a ten-point lead in the first quarter that proved decisive for Chattisgarh as they weren’t able to close the gap in the remaining period of the contest.

The score line of 49-30 in favour Delhi at the break, proved all but over for Chattisgarh boys who failed to make any impression in the last two quarters.

Delhi’s skipper Sombeer netted 37 points, while Varinder and Sukjeet contributed 24 and 10 points, respectively to the total.

Shyam Sunder (22), Sameer Rai (19) and Ajay Pratap (12) were the main scorer for Chattisgarh.

In a play off match today, Hosts Madhya Pradesh boys made amends of their yesterday’s defeat against Delhi, to outplay Punjab 94-83, to win third position in the tournament.

While Tamil Nadu girls finished third by defeating Karnataka 92-69.

Results

Boys:

Final:Delhi 89 (Sombeer 37, Varinder 24, Sukhjeet 10) bt Chattisgarh 69 (Shyam Sunder 22, Sameer Rai 19, Ajay Pratap 12).

For third position: Madhya Pradesh 94 (Amit Kanarjee 26, Sunny Raut 21, Rajnesh Pandey 20) bt Punjab 83 (Parminder Singh 23, Amanjot Singh 19, Amritpal Singh 13).

For fifth position: Uttar Pradesh 105 (Sudhirpal 36, Geetam Singh 29, Bobby Singh 14) bt Karnataka 99 (Mohd Abdeel 25, Abhishek YP 23, Kaif Azam Zia 19).

For seventh position: Kerala 62 (Sidheek Razak 23, Basil Philip 14, Nitin Paul 13) bt Tamil Nadu 54 (C Berdinent 23, KS Prasanna 15, MA Raguraj 14).

Girls:

Final: Chattisgarh 97 (Kavita 29, Aruna Kindo 19, Sangeeta Mondal 16) bt Kerala 64 (Neenu Mol PS 20, Anusha Anto 11, Soniya Joy 10).

For third position: Tamil Nadu 92 (U Rahila Begum 21, RS Karpaagam 19, K Gomati ) bt Karnataka 69 (Navneetha PU 16, Sandhya M 14, Sagarika Shyam 13).

For fifth position: Delhi 63 (A Chinmai Meghna 20, Sonika Ohylan 15, Neha Joshi 14) bt Maharashtra 61 (Sneha Rajguru 16, Amrita Bhuskute 13, Shewta Mundre 120.

For seventh position: Madhya Pradesh 60 (Monika Gurjir 20, Jhilik Roy 17, Deepika David 12) bt Andhra Pradesh 49 (Eedu Palli Jyothi 12, Ande Surya 11, G Sala Satya 8).

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