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Indian Railways women outclassed Karnataka 95-65 to station their 2nd triumph successful the 75th elder National hoops title astatine the Nehru Indoor Stadium present connected Monday.
The lone clip the contention was evenly matched was successful the opening 5 minutes erstwhile some sides were level 8-8. But Railways past sprinted distant to a tiny lead, winning the adjacent 9 points earlier closing retired the 4th 22-11.
The defending champions past went connected the offensive, led by Vaishnavi Yadav’s good layups portion Pushpa Senthilkumar netted successful a fewer escaped throws and a three-pointer arsenic their broadside established a 39-17 lead.
The Railways outfit was stronger connected defence, with higher steals led by Dharshini Thirunavukkarasu and P. Priyanka; the erstwhile besides led successful assists.
In the 3rd quarter, Railways’ K.B. Harshitha, who came successful arsenic a substitute, made instant impact, executing precise leap shots and lay-ups (16 points). As the crippled started to gaffe away, Karnataka took ambitious chances arsenic H.M. Bhandavya and Sruthi Arvind nailed a treble of three-pointers each. The rubric holders, though, had by past built a 19-point lead, which they consolidated easy successful the last 4th to station a facile win.
In the men’s section, too, Railways made it 2 retired of two, with a 96-70 triumph implicit Uttar Pradesh to beryllium astatine the apical of Group B.
Top results: Women: Group A: Indian Railways 95 (K.B. Harshitha 16, Vaishnavi Yadav 15, Pushpa Senthilkumar 12, Manmeeth Kaur 12) bt Karnataka 65 (Sruthi Arvind 24, H.M. Bhandavya 18, Nidhi Umesh 14).
Delhi 68 (Prakriti Ranjan 18, Suman 13, Simran Kaur 12, Preethi Kumari 11) bt Chhattisgarh 55 (Priya Sharma 20).
Group B: Kerala 88 (V.J. Jayalakshmi 20, Swapna Merin Jose 14, Kavitha Jose 12, S. Susan 10) bt Madhya Pradesh 34.
Men: Group A: Karnataka 94 (Pratyanshu Tomar 22, Aaron Monterio 20, Aravind Arumugam 14, Shashikant Rai 14) bt Services 75 (Sunil Rathee 18, Ajay Singh 18, Hemant Sheoran 12, Himanshu Hooda 10, T.S. Santosh 10).
Group B: Indian Railways 96 (Kanwar Gurbaz Singh Sandhu 15, Tushal Singh 15, Palpreet Singh 14, Princepal Singh 14, Sahaij Pratap Singh 12) bt Uttar Pradesh 70 (Harsh Dagar 20, Kushal Singh 14, Prince Tyagi 11).
Delhi 94 (Jeethandar Singh 23, Ayush Sharma 18, Arjun Singh 13, Rachit 13, Issac T. Thomas 11) bt Chandigarh 82 (Aditya 35, Gaurav Kumar 17, Gautam Yadav 10).
