North end Central hopes

It was a queer first half to the North-SCR clash. Both the teams were terrible on the defensive boards but North were better than SCR on the offensive with their pivot Mandeep Kaur draining 12 of her 25 points in the well-fought first half.

North had a great start to the second 8212; they scored 20 points to SCR8217;s six 38-32 at half-time to 58-38. But SCR pulled back by playing with three short but speedy players and two pivots, helping themselves to a 11-2 run 51-60.

But the exit of Shatty M Scaria, who had restricted Mandeep to just six points in about 15 minutes, made her exit and down went SCR8217;s fight with her.

In the semi-finals, Western meet Northern while in the second semi-final, East meet South.

Results

Men: North East 67 Arun Shukla 25, Bhawar Singh 22 bt DCW 36 Manjit Singh 12, Jasdeep Singh 10; Eastern 50 Ali Ahmed 16, D Kumar 13 bt Rly Board 27 Rajesh Tandon 19; QF: Western 66 Ram Kumar 15, Ranjeet Singh 14, Surjeet 13 bt Eastern 51 S Nayak 13.

Women: North 69 Mandeep Kaur 25, Prabjot Gill 16 bt South-Central 62 Yamuna Philip 12, UP Laiji 15, Anandi 13.