34th Youth National Basketball Championship: Telangana teams out of tournament

Hyderabad: It was a disappointing outing for both the boys and the girls basketball teams from Telangana as they lost their matches to crash out of the 34th Youth National Basketball Championship for Boys and Girls being played at the Indoor Stadium, Gachibowli in Hyderabad on Monday.

In the Level 2, Group ‘F’ match, the Telangana boys who were in a must-win encounter against neighbour Andhra Pradesh, lost by a heavy margin of 47-94.
Andhra Pradesh topped Group ‘F’ and will face West Bengal (Group ‘C’ topper) for a spot in the pre-quarterfinals. Meanwhile, Delhi girls dashed the hopes of Telangana after beating them 71-52. The hosts were knocked out of the competition after finishing second in Group ‘E’.

The Results
Girls, Level 2:
n Group ‘E’: Delhi 48 (Khushi Ahlawat 12, Bharti 10) bt Jharkhand 22 (Soni Kumari 11); Telangana 52 (D. Devi Reddy 13, K. Jyothi 11) lost to Delhi 71 (V. Singh 25).
n Group ‘F’: Andhra Pradesh 52 (P. Satya Sai Sushmita 12, A. Surya Kamla Kumari 10, K. Sudha Madhvi 8) bt Puducherry 19 (Venus Gloriya 8, Rasika S. 6).
Boys, level 2:
n Group ‘F’: Goa 46 (Jeshua Pinto 21) bt Puducherry 12 (Dharun Anand 5); Andhra Pradesh 94 (M. Mani 34, A. Sai Pavan 22, V Sai Ganesh 10) bt Telangana 47 (Rithwik Thammareddy 15, Vighneshwar Upadhyay 13, Vinay Kothari 12).
n Group ‘C’: West Bengal 56 (Amarendra Nayak 26, Avijit Monikar 18) bt Chandigarh 40 (Jaskaran Brar 18, Manpreet Singh 8); Himachal Pradesh 72 (Manmohan Singh 19, Sahil Chandel 11) bt Jammu & Kashmir 22 (Harithik Choudhary 8).
n Group ‘D’: Bihar 53 (Bhupendra Bahadur 17, Dharmendar Kumar 12) bt Uttarakhand 39 (Ansh Saini 19); Jharkhand 52 (Munna Sharma 16, Sushant Deep 15) bt Gujarat 49.