Date:18/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/18/stories/2008071856782200.htm

Sport - Basketball

Kanaka (Kolar) wins a thriller

BANGALORE: Kanaka (Kolar) pipped bt SAI (Dharwad) 84-83 in extra-time in the quarter finals of the ‘B’ division State basketball league at the Sree Kanteerava stadium outdoor courts here on Thursday.

Guruprasad and Dhiraj Shetty tallied 37 points and 35 points for Kanaka and SAI respectively. The teams were tied 74-all in full time.

Also advancing into the last four were Ambedkar BC, CMP and Bharath Sports Union with comfortable wins over Koramangala SC, IBBC and K.S. Hedge (Mangalore) respectively.

The results:

Boys (Quarterfinals): Kanaka (Kolar) 84 (Guruprasad 37, Naveen 16, Ashoka 10) bt SAI Dharwad 83 (Dhiraj Shetty 35, Rajesh 25).

Ambedkar BC 39 (Karan 16) bt Koramangala SC 26 (Abhishek John 10).

CMP 66 (Vinay Kumar 25, Ganesh 15, Jayachandra 11) bt IBBC 44 (Shivaraj Kumar 19).

Bharath Sports Union 58 (Anand 16, Akhil 16) bt K.S. Hegde (Managalore) 51 (Nikhil Shetty 32, Keerthana 13).

Relegation matches:

NAL Colony 53 (Siddarth 13, Vinay 12, Venkat 11) bt SBI 39 (Jagdish 16).

Orions 58 (Avinash 25, Abhishek 20) bt DRDO 38 (Praneeth 13). — Special Correspondent