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KOCHI: Defending champion Kerala and Tamil Nadu notched up easy wins for the second successive day and were on course for semifinal berths in the eighth all-India BSNL basketball tournament being played here. On Tuesday, Rahul Krishna, Vijobi Vakkachan and Manzoor Ahmed were in fine nick as Kerala thrashed Andhra Pradesh 103-32, while Tamil Nadu defeated Punjab 76-41 in league games. In contrast, Karnataka was forced to sweat and pulled off a one-point victory over Chhattisgarh. Yaseen Peeran Peerzade, with 33 points, was the star for Karnataka while Viswambhernath Pandey (37 points) led Chhattisgarh’s tally. The results (league): Group ‘A’: Andhra Pradesh 31 (A. Madhusudhan 19) bt Maharashtra 16; Kerala 103 (Rahul Krishna 17, Vijobi Vakkachan 15, Manzoor Ahmed 15, Aravindhakshan 12, G. Mahesh 10) bt AP 32 (Madhusudhanan 14); Maharashtra 45 (Raju Dolsae 16, J.B. Wagh 15) bt Gujarat 25 (H.A. Gohil 11 ). Group ‘B’: Tamil Nadu 76 (C. Mohanraj 12, A. Saghya Selvan 12, C. Kannan 11, R. Delhi Raj 10) bt Punjab 41 (Praveen Kumar Sareen 22, Pradeep Kumar 10); Madhya Pradesh 52 (M.S. Yadav 12, A.B. Tigga 12) bt MTNL, Mumbai 16. Group ‘C’: Orissa 60 (Shashi Kanta Mohant 18, Amaresh Patra 12) bt U.P. East 38 (Santhosh Kumar Srivastava 14, Sharad Kumar 14); U.P. East 54 (Sharad Kumar 22) bt Jammu & Kashmir 15; West Bengal 39 (Manoj Mahanto 10) bt J & K 30 (Satyajith Sharma 14); Himachal Pradesh 43 (Sunny Kumar 20, Jagjivan Ram 10) bt U.P. East 16. Group D: Chhattisgarh 70 (Dileeshwar Chandrakar 28, Mitilesh Singh Thakur 20) bt MTNL, Delhi 12; Chhattisgarh 44 (Kamalesh Kumar 12) bt Bihar 19 (Nalin Sharma 10); Karnataka 67 (Yaseen Peeran Peerzade 33, P. Naresh 17) bt Chhattisgarh 66 (Viswambhernath Pandey 37, Mithilesh Singh Thakur 15). — Principal Correspondent
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