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A. Anantharaj’s spectacular burst successful the past 3 minutes of the 3rd 4th flipped what was until past a choky brushwood into a comparatively comfy 87-57 triumph for Tamil Nadu against Kerala successful the quarterfinals of the 75th elder National hoops title astatine the Nehru Indoor Stadium present connected Friday. Overall, the 29-year-old converted six retired of his 9 three-point attempts to decorativeness with 24.
TN was stretched successful the archetypal fractional by Kerala, led by A.S. Sharath, who scored 17 points, arsenic the 2 sides played an aggravated crippled of cat-and-mouse, with the pb changing hands repeatedly. At the extremity of the archetypal quarter, the scores were tied 15-15 earlier the big led by 2 points astatine the interruption (36-34).
In the 2nd half, the hosts recovered a higher gear, with Anantharaj scoring 13 points, including 3 three-pointers successful the 3rd quarter. The reigning champion went connected an 18-point tally during the past 2 quarters and raced to a 24-point pb successful conscionable 5 minutes, leaving Kerala gasping for breath.
Earlier, Delhi edged Karnataka 80-73 successful a gripping contention to scope the past four. For Delhi, aft Ravi Bhardwaj scored 10 retired of the archetypal 13 points, Jeethandar Singh and Ayush Sharma took over.
Karnataka fought backmost successful the 2nd half, narrowing a 15-point shortage to conscionable six, acknowledgment to Sumanth Satynarayan’s good driving lay-ups and three-pointers. However, Delhi managed to people twice, including 2 escaped throws successful the past stages, to seal the tie.
The results (quarterfinals): Men: Tamil Nadu 87 (A. Anantharaj 24, Pranav Prince 10) bt Kerala 57 (A.S. Sharath 17, Aaron Varghese Bleesen 17).
Uttar Pradesh 93 (Harsh Dagar 30, Kushal Singh 22, Digvijay Singh 15, Satyajeet Chaprana 11, Prince Tyagi 11) bt Rajasthan 90 (Mohammad Ishan 29, Akshit Hooda 21, Lokendra Singh 15, Mahaveer 13, Ashish Trivedi 10).
Delhi 80 (Jeethandar Singh 26, Ayush Sharma 18, Ravi Bhardwaj 17, M. Sivasakthivel 10) bt Karnataka 73 (Sumanth Satyanarayan 19, Arvind Arumugam 14, Aaron Monteiro 11).
Railways 82 (Palpreet Singh Brar 13, Princepal Singh 12, Sahaij Pratap Singh 11, Manik 10, Kanwar Gurbaz Singh Sandhu 10) bt Telangana 53.
Women: Madhya Pradesh 64 (Manvi Srivastava 24, Ananya Maheshwari 17, Khushi Pal Singh 10) bt Karnataka 63 (Sruthi Arvind 20, Sanjana Ramesh 14, H.M. Bhandavya 12).
Tamil Nadu 72 (R. Sruthy 22, Shree Varshini 19, J. Ishwarya 11) bt Maharashtra 70 (Ankita Kumari 17, Siya Deodhar 14, S. Lakshmi Priya 13, Reva Kulkarni 12).
Railways 101 (K. Sathya 30, Pushpa Senthilkumar 12, Manmeet Kaur 10, Poonam Chaturvedi 10, Namrata 10) bt Gujarat 17.
Kerala 91 (Sreekala Rani 23, Aneesha Cleetus 19, Kavitha Jose 14, J. Jayalakshmi 10) bt Delhi 54 (Suman 16, Prakriti Ranjan 10).
