Indian Railways women and Punjab Men crowned champions of 70th Senior National Basketball Championship

Indian Railways Women beat Kerala 68-55 to repeat as champs, Punjab retained the Crown beating Tamil Nadu 93-75 Ludhiana : Indian Railways women and Punjab Men have been crowned champions of the 70th Senior National Basketball Championship for Men and Women here at Guru Nanank Dev Stadium in Ludhiana Punjab. The Championship was organized by the Punjab Basketball Association under the aegis of Basketball Federation of India. Indian Railways beat Kerala 68-55 The two undefeated teams from the league phase finally faced off in the summit clash earlier this afternoon. Indian Railways women started off well taking on the early lead Indian Railways as they ended the first quarter with17-12 lead with Navneetha dominating the ring and ended up the 1st half with 33-25 . Kerala only dominated the 2rd quarter and was able to reduce the lead 43-47 . Railaway had multiple players with double figures ,Sruthy Aravind played the captains role and led the Scoring for Railways with16 points and Shireen Limaye with15 ,Navneetha scoring 13 and Poonam Chathurvedi with 12 for Kerala Jeena PS made 23 and Stephy Nixon making 13 Punjab beat Tamil Nadu 93-75 Punjab anchored by Professionals Amritpal Amjoth defeated Tamil Nadu 93-75 after an evenly fought first half of 37-36 Harsh preet Sing Buller lead the scoring with 33 points followed by Center Amritpal Sing with 24 points and 14 rebounds and Amjot amking 15 and for Tamil Nadu Moin Bek come up with 23 points and Jeevanathm with 20 Bronze for Utharkhand men and Madhya Pradesh Women Nimma Doma Bhutia made all differenc for Madhya Pradesh as they scrape past Punjab with the score 73-69 to secure women bronze while Vishesh Brighuvnshi made it possible the Bronze for Utharkhand as they beat Indian Railway 75- 74 Women Finals Indian Railways -68(Sruthy Aravind 16,Shireen Limaye 15,Navaneetha PU13,Poonam Chathurvedi12,Madhukumari10) br Kerala-55(Jeena PS24,Stephy Nixon15)(17-12,16-13,14-18,21-12) Men Punjab-93(Arshpreet Singh Buller 33, Amritpal Singh24,Amjoth Singh19) bt Tamil Nadu-75(Muin Bek 23,Jeevanatham20,Aravind Annadurai13,Bala Shankar10)(16-20,21-16,30-23,26-16) 3-4 Place Match Women Madhya Pradesh-73 (Nimma Doma Bhutia 28,Namarata13,Norzom Bhutia 12,Anjali Dhasmana10) bt Punjab- 69(Anmol Preet Kaur20, HarismaranKaur18, RajandeepKaur13, SharnamJ11)(11-21,16-17,21-8,25-23) Men Utharkhand-75 (Vishesh Brighuvanshi36ArjunSingh14,Yadwinder Singh13) bt Indian Railways-74(Sahil20,Rajan Sharma17,Lovneet Singh11) (13-20,19-13,19-22,24-19) 4th and 5th Place Men Kerala-76(Jishnu G Nair24,Grigo Mathew19,Sugeethnath17,Sarath AS11) bt Karnataka -58(Abhishek G19,M Harish18) (16-23,20-18,21-6,19-11) Women Karnataka-66(Chandana16,Lopamudra 11) bt Telengana-41(D Manasa11)(23-9,16-12,9-13,18-7) 7th & 8th Men Harayana-72(Vikrant29,MohitFuteala25) bt Services-71(SurenderpalSingh18,NikhilKumar12,Siva Saktivel10) (10-19,28-11,20-12,14-29) Women Maharastra-58(Suzanne Pinto24) bt Delhi-49(Nishita S14,Aparna Saini14) (15-13,17-13,8-16,18-7) Final Standings Standings Women Men 1 Indian Railways Punjab 2 Kerala Tamil Nadu 3 Madhya Pradesh Utharkhand 4 Punjab Indian Railways 5 Karnataka Kerala 6 Telangana Karnataka 7 Maharashtra Haryana 8 Delhi Services 9 Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh 10 Chandigarh Chandigarh Prize Distribution ceremony For the prize distribution ceremony, Hon Sh Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi (Cabinet Minister Sports & Youth Affairs ,NRI affairs Govt of Punjab) Hon Manish Tiwari former Minister Information and broadcasting Govt of India) Hon Sh Tripat Rajinder Sing Bajwa (Cabinet Minister –Rural Development & Panchayaths,Animal Husbandary, Dairy development and higher Education Govt of Punjab ) were the chief guests. Most Valuable Player: • women Jeena PS Kerala • Men Arshpreet Singh Bhuller