Telangana women hoopsters in maiden final, defeat Kerala in semifinal

Hyderabad: Riding on P Priyanka’s 33-point show, Telangana women’s basketball team held their nerves to defeat Kerala 81-78 in a thrilling semifinal contest to make it to their first ever final at the 71st Senior National Basketball Championship in Chennai on Saturday. In a contest that went down the wire, TS hoopsters came out with […]

Hyderabad: Riding on P Priyanka’s 33-point show, Telangana women’s basketball team held their nerves to defeat Kerala 81-78 in a thrilling semifinal contest to make it to their first ever final at the 71st Senior National Basketball Championship in Chennai on Saturday.

In a contest that went down the wire, TS hoopsters came out with flying colours. Apart from Priyanka, Aswathy Thampi also made a major contribution with 20 points. For Kerala, R Sreekala and Kavith Jose scored 27 and 22 points respectively.

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Telangana will take on Indian Railways in the final. The Railways team thrashed Tamil nadu 115-88 in the other semifinal.

Meanwhile in the men’s section, defending champion Punjab runs into host Tamil Nadu in the men’s final. While Punjab eliminated Karnataka 88-75, Tamil Nadu got the better of the formidable Indian Railways 93-70 with H Muin Bek leading the way with 26 points.

Punjab too did not have any problems in seeing off Karnataka and kept scoring regularly to book a spot in the summit clash.

Results: Semifinals: Women: Telangana 81 (Priyanka P 33, Aswathy Thampi 20) beat Kerala 78 (Sreekala R 27, Kavitha Jose 22); Indian Railways 115 (S Pushpa 24, Avanthi Vardhan 16) beat Tamil Nadu 88 (K Sathya 30, Amritha 14);

Men: Punjab 88 (Kanwar G Singh Sandhu 26, Amritpal Singh 22) bt Karnataka 75 (Abhishek Gowda 22, Harissh M Kumar 18); Tamil Nadu 93 (Muin Bek 26, A Aravind 15, M Jeevanantham 15) beat Railways 70 (Praveen Kumar 24, Palpreet Singh 13).

 

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