National youth basketball: Rajasthan boys record easy victory

Defending champion Rajasthan boys rode on Piyush Choudhary’s 20 points to outsmart Madhya Pradesh 79-31 in a Group-A match of the 39^th National Youth Basketball Championships at the Sabuj Sathi Indoor Stadium, Howrah, on Saturday.

Select results:

Level 1:

Boys: Group A: Tamil Nadu 68 (Yadesh Kumar 35, Vishal V. 14) bt Kerala 51 (Millen Jose Mathew 21, Arshal Mohammed 10); Rajasthan 79 (Piyush Choudhary 20, Mohammed Raza Khan 15, Bhupinder Singh Rathore 14, Zuber Khan 14) bt Madhya Pradesh 31(Krishna Suneria 15).

Group B: Uttar Pradesh 66 (Abhyupang Mishra 17, Ayush Kumar 12, Sumit Kumar Singh 11, Sanjay Mahakunda 10) bt Chandigarh 63 (Sachin 23, Yash 17); Haryana 90 (Ajay 27, Chirag 25, Mayank Khanchi 19) bt Punjab 83 (Joypreet Singh 25, Fatehjeet Singh 23, Ajitinder Singh 13, Jagmeet Singh 11).

Girls: Group A: Tamil Nadu 87 (Joshna M. 13, Sumitra Devi 13, Angelina Arun George 13, Bhavani P. 12, Jefrin A. 12) bt Uttar Pradesh 58 (Mahie Tripathi 20); Madhya Pradesh 63 (Ayushi Yadav 17, Laxita Chouhan 14, Bhoomi Prakash 14) bt Uttar Pradesh 62 (Anshika Sharma 17, Soni Yadav 14, Mahie Tripathi 11); Group B: Karnataka 72 (Deepika P.P. 17, Shreya K. 14) bt Kerala 57 (Arthika K. 20, Diya Biju 13); Kerala 61 (Diya Biju 13, Arthika K. 13, Vaigha T. 10) bt Gujarat 30 (Dinal Vith Thani 11).  

Level 2:

Boys: Group C: Delhi bt Goa 74-8, Puducherry bt Mizoram 67-51, Bihar bt Goa 61-47; Group D: Odisha bt Uttarakhand 66-57, Chhattisgarh bt Manipur 62-30; Group E: West Bengal bt Andaman and Nicobar 77-18, Maharashtra bt Assam 75-38, Maharashtra bt Himachal Pradesh 96-51; Group F: Jharkhand bt Andhra Pradesh 72-45, Jammu and Kashmir bt Arunachal Pradesh 49-20.

Girls: Group C: Uttarakhand bt West Bengal 42-29, Chhattisgarh bt Chandigarh 61-39, Telangana bt Uttarakhand 54-25; Group D: Delhi bt Goa 56-16; Group F: Jammu and Kashmir bt Arunachal Pradesh 36-10.