JOIN USServices defeated Karnataka 73-64 in a men’s league match on the opening day of the 63rd National basketball championships at the Guru Nanak Dev Indoor Stadium here on Friday.
Srinivas Naik top-scored for Karnataka with 25 points.
Results: Men: Services: 73 (Narender Grewal 27, Gopal Ram 21) bt Karnataka: 64 (Srinivas Naik 25, Sridhar 13, Arvind 12); Chandigarh: 63 (Balraj Singh 16, Ashutosh 16, Sandeep 15) bt West Bengal: 50 (Varun Pillai 10, Sagar Joshi 10, Debasish 10); Indian Railways: 85 (Prakesh Mishra 25, Carmel Josepa 12) bt Andhra Pradesh: 51 (Shiv Kumar 11, Kullu 10); Chhattisgarh: 93 (Shyam 21, Kiran Pal 15, Sharvan Kumar 13, Sameer Rai 11) bt Himachal Pradesh: 69 (Dilip Kumar 27, Vinay Kumar 14, Deepak Thakur 13); Madhya Pradesh: 82 (Akash Bhasin 19, Amit Kanarjee 16, Ankit Pangrahi 13, Ankit Singh Pathar 13) bt Maharashtra: 75 (Jai Singh 16, Amit Gahlot 15, Raj Kalbhor 13, Baldav Singh 12).
Women: Indian Railways: 107 (Geethu Anna Jose 51, Manisha Dangi 12, M Pushpa 10, Anju Lakra 10) bt Delhi: 57 (Raspreet Sidhu 15, Madhu Kumari 10, Pratima Singh 10); Maharashtra: 78 (Sneha Rajguru 29, Shireen Limaye 23, A Rai 12) bt Andhra Pradesh: 70 (M Meshram 21, S Sam 19, M Gayatri 14); West Bengal: 54 (Varsha Verma 19, Sukurmoni 16) bt Haryana: 32 (Anju 10, Monika 8); Uttarakhand: 46 (Rajni 15, Bhawana Bisht 12) bt Jammu & Kashmir: 25 (Navsheen Zutshi 10); Madhya Pradesh: 37 (Shyra 10, Madhu 9) bt Chandigarh: 28 (Manu 10); Bihar: 63 (Shalimi Srivastav 22, G Satya Snavanthi 21) bt Rajasthan: 45 (Priya Joshi 10, Purnima Chouhan 9).