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S. Rly. women triumph

Sports Correspondent

THANJAVUR: Southern Railway women retained the Dharmambal Namachivayam Trophy with a convincing 64-18 win over SRM Rising Star (Chennai) in the final of the Tamil Nadu State senior basketball championship, conducted jointly by Kamala Subramaniam MHSS and Thanjavur District Basketball Association, here on Sunday.

In the semifinals, Railway beat St. Joseph's BC (Chennai) 54-22 and SRM Rising Star crushed All Star BC (Chennai) 83-23 in one-sided affairs.

Things were, however, different in the men's last four clashes. Defending champion Integral Coach Factory was toppled 58-54 by the youthful BSNL Telephones, which was making its maiden appearance in the championship. Indian Bank beat Indian Overseas Bank 74-63 in a thriller.

Indian Bank survives

In the other semifinal, IOB was without its star players Meher Pande and Robinson and yet did well with Sugavaneswaran playing fluently. However, the experienced Indian Bank side built up a 12-point lead (29-17) in the first quarter, with Sureshkumar and Javeed Khan on a scoring spreet.

Though IOB narrowed the lead to 50-47 at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Indian Bank prevailed 74-63.

The results:

Men (semifinals): BSNL Telephones 58 (C. Moahnraj 13) bt ICF 54 (Balaji 13, Tony Lesile 13, Ashwin 12); Indian Bank 74 (Suresh Kumar 22, Javed Khan 15, Ullas 10) bt IOB 63 (A.D. Sugavaneswaran 16, Swaminathan 12).

Women: Final: Southern Railway 64 (Anitha 12, Shyamala 10, Athirai 10) bt SRM Rising Star 18 (Kohila 10); Semifinals: Railway 54 (Shyamala 10, Geetha 18, Deepa 10, Anitha 10) bt St. Joseph's BC 22 (Sophia 12); SRM Rising Star 83 (Kohila 25, Divya 21) bt All Star BC 23;

Quarterfinals: All Star 52 (Preethi 12) bt Annamalai University 26 (Gayathri 16); St. Joseph's 54 bt Golden Eagle 27.

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