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Adit Anand and Rashmi enter semifinals

MADURAI: Top seed Adit Anand and Rashmi S. Babu (both from Coimbatore), Divya Parikh and Shruthi (both from Chennai) entered the girls' under-10 singles semifinals of the Tamil Nadu junior inter-district and State badminton championship at the M.G.R. Race Course stadium here on Thursday.

The results:

Boys U-10 Singles (second round):

Karan Raja (Cbe) bt Aravind (Mdu) 21-11, 21-1; Dhrunj (VNR) bt K. Pranoy (Cud) 21-16, 21-8; P. Soundararajan (Cbe) bt Ashwin Gurudharan (Mdu) 21-13, 21-10; Nelson Arokiaraj w/o Venkat (Mdu); J. Jaison (Mdu) bt Rajendran (Rmp) 21-19, 21-4; T. Jesu Jerish w/o. R. Gautham (Mdu); Akshay Karuna (Vnr) bt Shivadarshan (Mdu) 21-5, 21-2; K.S. Kabilesh (Erd) w/o Harikrishna (Cbe); Arunachalam (Mdu) bt V. Vijay Bharathi (Vnr) 21-6, 21-7.

Vishal Ubendran (Cbe) bt Pranav (Mdu) 21-11, 21-9; Dhruv Malik (Erd) w/o N. Saravanan (Vnr); S. Adhimoolam (Mdu) bt V. Aravind (Cbe) 21-4, 21-0.

Girls U-10 Singles (quarterfinals):

Adit Anand bt R. Visrutha (Cbe) 21-7, 21-4; Divya Parikh bt Nikata S. Kamath (Cbe) 21-11, 21-9; Rashmi S. Babu bt B. Bavani (RMP) 21-2, 21-0; Shruthi bt S. Sadhana (Cbe) 19-21, 21-7.

Ramesh Flowers in final

An unbeaten 54 by Venugopal helped Ramesh Flowers Cricket Club defeat Dhrangdhar Chemical Works Cricket Club (Sahupuram) by 54 runs and enter the final of the 17th annual L.P. Rayen Memorial Trophy cricket tournament at Tuticorin on Thursday.

The scores (semifinals): Ramesh Flowers 167 for six in 30 overs (Venugopal 54 n.o., Edwin 43, Raj three for 24) bt DCW CC 113 in 25.3 overs; SPIC Central Sports Council 90 in 27.5 overs lost to Power CC 91 for six in 15.1 overs.

MSSWBC triumphs

MSS Wakf Board College won the title in the Madurai Kamaraj University Champion Trophy inter-collegiate badminton tournament defeating HKRH College (Uthamapalayam) 3-2 for its third win in the last match of the four-team league at the University indoor stadium on Thursday.

The results (league): MSSWB College bt HKRH College (Uthamapalayam) 3-2 (Antony bt Dhaneesh 21-17, 19-21, 21-10; Anil lost to Ishat 12-21, 16-21; Anil/ Satheesh lost to Dhaneesh/ Ishat 8-21, 17-21; Vinoo bt Arif 18-21, 21-14, 21-16; Antony/ Vinoo bt Arif/ Rajesh 15-21, 21-13, 21-10). Sourashtra College bt AKC of Arts and Science 3-0 (Bharath Arun bt Vishnu Sankar 21-9, 21-7; Virumandy bt S.J. Bharath 21-11, 22-20; Bharath Arun/ Virumandy bt S.J. Bharath/ Bala Ganesh 21-11, 21-12.

Earlier results: MSSWB bt Sourashtra 3-2; bt AKC of Arts and Science 3-1. Sourashtra bt HKRH (Uthamapalayam) 3-0; HKRH bt AKC Arts and Science 3-1.

Senthil in last four

M. Senthil of Pot Black Centre entered the semifinal round robin league of Madurai district billiards ranking tournament defeating D.M. Sabarinath of Railway Institute 150-67, 150-86, 150-87 at the Madurai Union Club Billiards Hall on Thursday.

Other results (quarterfinals): E.B. Kuppusamy (UC) bt Moovendra Pandian (Rly. Inst.) 150-128, 150-118, 150-116; John Peter (Rly. Inst.) bt V.S.M.R. Janarthanan (Sourashtra Club) 150-116, 150-58, 150-135.

Aparajith, Indrajith sizzle

Twins B. Aparajith (105, 239b, 8x4) and B. Indrajith (124 not out, 76b, 10x4) starred in Districts-I gaining five points for its first innings lead over City-II on the second and final day of the TNCA under-13 round robin cricket tournament at VB-Nest, Kelambakkam, here on Thursday. The two put on 124 runs for the fourth wicket in 220 balls.

The scores: City-II 83 & 166 for four in 58 overs (M. Karthick 40, S.R. Vibhu 85) drew with Districts-I 290 for seven in 90 overs (B. Aparajith 105, B. Indrajith 124 n.o.). Districts-I 5 points: City-II: 2

City-III 140 & 85 for seven in 61 overs (Ashwin Crist 25 n.o., G.C. Varadhan three for 17, S. Suraj three for 15) drew with Districts-II 83 in 74.2 overs (G.C. Varadhan 27, Mukund Muralidaran six for 26). City-III: 5; Districts-II: 2.

Double for Salem

Chennai and Salem scored a double each in the team events in the Tamil Nadu State Cadets fencing championship organised by Tuticorin District Fencing Association here on Thursday.

Chennai won the Foil events in both the boys and girls' sections while Salem won the Sabre events in both the sections.

The results (all finals):

Boys: Foil: Chennai bt Salem 11-7. Epee: Thiruvallur bt Salem 15-14. Sabre: Salem bt Namakkal 15-11.

Girls: Foil: Chennai bt Salem 14-13. Epee: Trichy bt Chennai 15-7. Sabre: Salem bt Trichy 15-10.