
Jaipur, March 17: Following the last night defeat of holders Bihar, last year8217;s runners-up Punjab too suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Services in the Pool A league encounter in the 49th Senior National Basketball Championships here this morning.
Indian Railways, who had stunned champions Bihar, recorded their second successive win by outclassing West Bengal 90-65.
Maharashtra eves, runner-up last year, suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Madhya Pradesh.
Results
Men
Pool A: Rlys 90 Ram Kumar 18, Sudhir Huda 14, Vishal Kumar 9 bt West Bengal 65 Amlendu 21, Vikas 11; Bihar 65 Nishant Kumar 25, Jaldeep Dhaliwal 12, M Islauddin 11, C Miranda 9 bt Tamil Nadu 54 Sridharan 12, Sarvanan 8, Jaishankar 15.
Pool B: Services 74 Phool Singh 26, Sufeto Francis 19, AP Singh 17 bt Punjab 71 Parminder Singh Sr 23, Gursharanjeet Singh 12, SN Singh 11, Gagnesh Kumar 10; Maharashtra 78 Mahesh Naidu 26, Clarence Menezes 21, Shibu George 17 bt Delhi 71 Dalbir 21, Udaivir 11, Sandeep 10; Punjab 82 Parminder Singh Sr 37, Gagnesh Kumar 15, S N Singh 12, Vipin Kumar 9 bt Maharashtra 60 Pankaj 14, Vijayan Gandhe 11, Shibbu George 12, Vinod Kumar 8; Karnataka 73 Murli Mohan 23, V S Gautam 26, Austin 10 bt Delhi 53 Satish 16, Dalbir 12, Yudhveer 11.
Pool C: UP 76 Sandeep 14, Abhinav Singh 10, Rajender 10 bt Pondicherry 48 Palami 14, Senthil 13; Haryana 58 Rajesh 26, Krishan 13, Manoj 15 bt HP 40 Brij Mohan 12, Praveen 8.
Pool D: Rajasthan 83 Mahipal 17, Mangi Lal 14 bt Jamp;K 24 Amit Bharti 9, Bhanu Pratap 8; Orissa 50 Amrish 13, Prakash 13 bt Goa 34 Sandeep 9, R Upadhyay 9.
Pool E: MP 71 Virender Joshi 28, ST Thomas 18, Riazuddin 14 bt Kerala 67 SJ Shinoi 23, M Ranjeet 18, I Verghese 11; Gujarat 61 Hitender Singh 25, Vipin Singh 12, Devender Joshi 12 bt Chandigarh 33 P Aman 8, H Vinu 8; Madhya Pradesh 85 Riazuddin 17, Rajendra Singh 17, V Pandey 14, Virendra Joshi 5 bt Chandigarh 58 S Venu 16, Pradeep 10, Sunil 8, Dinesh 6.
Women
Pool A: Railways 61 Meena 14, Jeo Jose 13 bt Kerala 25 Sandhya 9, Mary CR 6; Railways 87 Jeo Jose 17, Deepali P Shah 10, B S Shyla 8 bt Karnataka 29 Chitra 8; Kerala 64 Binu Cherian 34, Simithalian 14, P B Sandhya 7 bt Punjab 45 Anu Randhawa 12, Kiran 10, Rina 8
Pool B: MP 52 Savita 23, Neelam 13 bt Maharashtra 39 Arnika Gujar 14, Manisha Khaprekar 12; Maharashtra 81 Pradnya Mane 24, Arnika Gujar 20, Manisha Khaprekar 16, Lincy Joseph 13 bt AP 54 NA Sisily 21, Yamuna 18.
Pool C: Chandigarh 30 Jaspreet 10 bt HP 10 Sunita 10.
Pool E: Assam 31 Manjri Bohra 11, Salima 9 bt Rajasthan 22 Bhavna Sharma 9; Tamil Nadu 52 Shyamla 12, Vidhya 11 bt Gujarat 4 Deepali 4.