Tamil Nadu too good for Railways

Tamil Nadu men scored an impressive 85-70 win over Indian Railways in the 63rd Senior National basketball championship here on Saturday.

In the women’s section, Karnataka suffered a 55-70 defeat at the hands of Chandigarh.
Results: Men: Gujarat: 90 (Dishant Shah 31, Harial Singh 31) bt Himachal Pradesh: 66 (Vinay Kumar 18); Jammu & Kashmir: 68 (Pramjit 23, Ranbir 17) bt Chandigarh: 57 (Ravi 16); Uttar Pradesh: 55 (Boby Singh 11) bt West Bengal: 28; Tamil Nadu: 85 (Pratham Singh 28, Rikin Pethani 21, Praveen Kumar 13) bt Indian Railways: 70 (Prakash Nishra 22, Gagandeep Singh 16); Maharashtra: 85 (Amit Kumar Gahlot 15, Raj Kalbhor 14) bt Puducherry: 17; Madhya Pradesh: 58 (Amit Kanakjee 19, Ankit Singh 13, Siddharth Singh 13) bt Assam: 57 (Birender Singh 14); Services: 82 (Narender Grewal 19, Dalip Kumar 16) bt Kerala: 51 (Basil Philip 22, Monish Wilson 11).

Women: Chandigarh: 49 (Sweeta 14) bt Gujarat: 22; Indian Railways: 106 (Geethu A Jose 17, Manisha Dange 16) bt Kerala: 58 (Jeena PS 19); Maharashtra: 57 (Renjusha Hathew 16) bt Tamil Nadu: 47 (R Rata Priya 17); Delhi: 80 (Pratima Singh 29) bt Uttar Pradesh: 56 (Preeti Kumari 35); Chhattisgarh: 70 (Poonam Chaturvedi 22) bt Karnataka: 55 (S Savitha 13, G Reshma11).