Uttar Pradesh edge past Telangana in Sub-junior National Basketball Championship

Uttar Pradesh defeated Telangana 51-44 in the girls’ Level I category of the Sub-junior National Basketball Championship in Vijayawada. Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh also registered wins, while Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Delhi and West Bengal recorded victories in other matches.

Hyderabad: Uttar Pradesh edged past Telangana 51-44 in the girls’ Level I category of the Sub-junior National Basketball Championship in Vijayawada on Thursday.

In other matches, Maharashtra outclassed Chhattisgarh 64-22 and Madhya Pradesh cruised past Kerala 66-14.

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The scores:

Level I

Girls

Pool A: UP 51 (Shreya Chouhan 12, Avishka Mishra 10, Tejasvi Baliyan 10) bt Telangana 44 (Mischa Jhavar 12).

Pool B: Maharashtra 64 (Maitri Shah 16, Netra Damke 13, Harishka Pawar 12) bt Chhattisgarh 22.

Pool B: MP 66 (Aarya Gupta 18, Monika Dhakad 14) bt Kerala 14 (Anna George 9).

Boys

Pool A: UP 84 (Sahil Kumar 35, Vansh Tomar 15) bt Haryana 66 (Harsh Rathee 19, Keshav Kaushik 15).

Pool A: Rajasthan 96 (Daksh Choudhary 15, Rajat Vyas 14, Sandeep Jakhar 12, Harshvardhan Singh 10) bt Mizoram 46 (Rafael Larinnunga 18).

Pool B: Maharashtra 80 (Giaan Bane 18, Aarush Tomar 14, Salman Shaik 10) bt Jharkhand 34 (Robert Hembron 13).

Knock-out stage

Boys: Chhattisgarh 90 (Harsh Pal 14, Prince Kumar 11, Jaskaran Singh 11) bt Manipur 50 (Bilgates Thiyam 18, Phoenix Achom 17).

Kerala 92 (Harinand 29, Ayush N S 11, Philipson Maneesh 11) bt Odisha 74 (Suvam Behera 28).

Girls: Delhi 55 (Niyara Khosla 18) bt Rajasthan 47 (Richa Lalwani 11).

West Bengal 70 (Ekta Mahato 15, Shruti Singh 15) bt Jharkhand 31.