The Hindu : Basketball: TN, Punjab in men's final

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Saturday, Dec 21, 2002

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Basketball: TN, Punjab in men's final

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD Dec. 20. Tamil Nadu stayed on course to add the basketball gold of the 32nd National Games to its National title as it staved off a late rally from Services 69-63 in the men's semifinal at the Swarnandhra Pradesh Sports Complex Indoor stadium, Gachibowli, on Friday.

In Saturday's final, the favourite will take on defending champion Punjab, which after a poor start bounced back to defeat Karnataka 86-58.

Karnataka appeared set to pull off a major upset, but failed as Parminder Singh Sr. and Gagnesh Kumar came back firing on all cylinders to put Punjab in the clear.

Earlier, Andhra Pradesh, backed well by a capacity crowd, entered the women's final with an easy 83-60 win over Madhya Pradesh.The results (semifinals):

Men: Tamil Nadu 69 (Robinson 22, Sridhar 11) bt Services 63 (Dilip Kumar 14, Sambhaji Kadam 13); Punjab 86 (Parminder Singh Sr. 28, Gagnesh Kumar 22, Parminder Singh Jr. 14, Prithpal Singh 14) bt Karnataka 58 (Murali Mohan 19, Umashankar 16, Stalin 13).

Women: Andhra Pradesh 83 (Sofi Sam 23, Laiji 20, Jetty Jose 19) bt Madhya Pradesh (Savita Deshwal 18, Nanda Jain 16, Nidhi Chandra 12); Chhattisgarh 78 (Poonam Singh 31, Anju Lakra 17, Seema Singh 16) bt Tamil Nadu 61 (Preethi 23, Vidya Sivakumar 16, Adhirai 10).

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