Defending girls champions Kerala began their campaign in style, thrashing West Bengal48-17 in the 42nd sub-junior national basketball championship, which began here today.
Krishna Priya top scored for Kerala with 18 points.
Last year's runners up Chhattisgarh also scored a comfortable victory defeating Delhi 89-36 led by Elizabeth Ekka, who netted 27 points.
In other matches, Tamil Nadu defeated Haryana 80-58. Pavithra Sre scored a game high 36 points for the winners while Maika did the bulk of scoring (32) for the losers.
Haryana team line up also featured Miraya Vadra, daughter of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Miraya did put her skills on display for limited minutes during the game. In the boys events, Tamil Nadu pipped West Bengal 84-79 in a cracker of a contest that ended after two extra time periods.
Tamil Nadu held their nerve in the final minutes to clinch the hard-fought victory relying on a balanced team effort led by Dhanush's 25 points.
Rajasthan boys team, which has Serbian Marko Zarkovic as the assistant coach, also began ona positive note with a 91-79 victoryover Andhra Pradesh.
Delhi and Punjab boys also picked up opening day victories against Tripura and Goa respectively.
Results: GIRLS Level 1 Group A:
Kerala (Krishna Priya SS 18, Anagha G Nair 10) beat West Bengal (Asmina 4, Rittika 4)48-17 (11-4, 21-5, 7-6,9-2).
Tamil Nadu (Pavithra Sre 36) beat Haryana (Maika 32) 80-58 (23-6, 8-9, 23-14, 22-19)
Group B: Chhattisgarh (Elizabeth Ekka 27 Neha Karva 22 Shweta Sen 14) beat Delhi (Sameeksha10, Vanshita Singh 7) 89-36 (28-8 , 16-7, 14-14, 20-7)
Madhya Pradesh (Rajiv Desai 24) beat Uttar Pradesh (Muskan Maurya 13) 46-36 (13-7, 8-12, 10-11, 15-6).
Level 2Group E- Rajasthan (Simran Birla 12, Raksheta Raman 13, Harshita Sharma 10) beat Goa (Shimei Nathan 11) 52-13 (19-4, 12-2, 13-1, 8-6).
Boys Level 1 Group B- Rajasthan (Mohammad Aasif 33, Jaiveer 19, Bharat Kumar 12) beat Andhra Pradesh (A Sai Pavan Kumar 23, P Venkata Raju 14)91-69 (19-16, 21-14, 29-15, 22-24).
Level2Group C- Himachal Pradesh (Jugraj Singh 20.
Vishal Verma 14) beat Jammu and Kashmir(Divanshu Pandey 13, Prasant Singh 12) 70-36 (21-9, 23-1, 14-18, 11-8).
Group E Tamil Nadu (Dhanush 25, Saran 19, Surya 11) beat West Bengal (Rohith 12, Sumith Shan 12, Binay 10) 84-79 (15-13, 12-13, 17-25, 22-15; Extra periods8-8; 10-5)
Punjab (Eknoor Singh 16, Amaan Sandhu 14, Jaskaran Singh 12) beat Goa (Selwyn Coelho 4) 74-10 (30-6, 19-0, 10-0, 15-4).
Group F- Delhi (Himanshu 14 Aryan Goswami 8, Ashish 8) beat Tripura (Aftab Khan 12) 62-16 (26-6, 20-6, 12-0, 4-4).
