Powered by a match-high 22 points from Adeel, Ambedkar’s Basketball Club breezed past Mangalore Basketball Club 71-45 in the boys’ section pre-quarterfinals of the State junior (U-18) basketball championship for Prof R N Rajanna Trophy here on Friday.

Also joining Ambedkar’s in the quarterfinals were, Young Orions, Beagles, Rangers, IBBC,Vidyaniketan, Kanaka and Jayanagars.

In the girls section, Sports Hostel, Rovers and Viveks made it to the last eight stage.

Results (all-pre-quarterfinals):

Boys: Young Orions: 35 (Benoy 18) bt KS Hegde, Mangalore: 25 (Avinash 11). HT: 18-13; Beagles BC: 44 (Irfan 21) bt Vimanapura SC: 19 (Lokesh 8). HT: 20-11; Rangers, Mysore: 46 (Subash 19) bt Bangalore Sporting: 31 (Aditya 10). HT: 22-12
IBBC: 59 (Dilip 11) bt Nationals, Mysore: 36 (Sagar 11, Shreyas 11). HT: 33-16.
VNSC: 37 (Akash Subbaiah 20) bt Bharath SU: 28 (Punith 10). HT: 25-13; Ambedkar’s BC: 71 (Adeel 22, Aravind 12) bt Mangalore BC: 45 (Manjunath 10, Teju 10, Vivek 10). HT: 35-24.
Kanaka, Kolar: 61 (Harish 27, Vishwanath 12) bt VBC, Mandya: 31 (Aravind 14). HT: 25-13; Jayanagar SC: 68 (Sujan 21, Minhal 18, Rahul 16) bt Rovers: 54 (Pavan 24, Akshay 10). HT: 33-22.
Girls: Sports Hostel, Mysore: 51 (Sneha Priya 10) bt Rovers, Dharwad: 21 (Sowmya 15). HT: 21-2.
Mounts Club: 52 (Sandhya 13, Sagarika 12) bt Rajmahal BC: 19 (Ruchira 8). HT: 32-3; Vivek SC: 21 (Bhavana 10) bt VNSC: 8. HT: 15-0.