Salem girls won two league matches and assured a berth in the knock-out stage of the State inter-district junior basketball, conducted by the Kanchipuram DBA on Sunday.
In the boys section, Tirunelveli, Tirupur, Dindigul and defending champion Chennai, showed their supremacy to assured a pre-quarterfinals berth.
The results: Boys: Dindigul 41 (Jeevananthan 13) bt Tirupur 22 (Subhash Chandra Bose 11, Boopal Santhosh 10); Madurai 37 (Anuganth 11, Arvind 10) bt Tiruvannamalai 6; Tuticorin 43 (Merson 14, Hudson 10) bt Trichy 26 (Vignesh 10); Tanjore 47 (Kiran 13, Panjanathan 12) bt Kanyakumari 40 (Sudan 11); Chennai 44 (Imthyas 15, Vijay 12) bt Ramnad 33 (Sivakumar 12, Kannan 0); Tirupur 31 (Prakash 20, Satheesh 10) bt Viluppuram 21 (Karthick 14); Chennai 66 (Nikhil Pandyan 16, Vijay 15) bt Tirunelveli 33 (Nitin Romario 10, Gopi 10); Cuddalore 41 (Prasanth 12, Gopikrishnan 10) bt Karur 12; Erode 44 (Prabhu 16, Gowtham 10) bt Vellore 29; Nagai 46 (Karthick 14, Ragunath 10) bt Tiruvannamalai 20 (Hemachandran 10, Balaji 10); Kanchipuram 47 (Salomon 12, Britto 10) bt Virudhunagar 26; Salem 54 (Aridev 18, Nithish 12, Amitkaran 10) bt Kanyakumari 37; Theni 29 (Nallaguru 11) bt Dharmapuri 17.
Girls: Kanchipuram 40 (Raghavi 13) bt Tanjore 31 (Varshanandhini 12); Chennai 29 (Srividya 11, Shanmugapriya 8) bt Tiruvannamalai 6; Tiruvallur 27 (Ashwini Nivetha 10, Punitha 8) bt Dharmapuri 14 (Janani 10); Coimbatore 29 bt Dharmapuri 1; Dindugal 27 (Siva Ranjini 16, Vanitha 8) bt Kanniyakumari 26 (Nithya 8); Thiruvannamalai 20 bt Madurai 9; Salem 25 bt Kanchipuram 4; Tiruvallur 26 (Punitha 11) bt Cudalore 22.
