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Soccer Club upsets Indian Bank

CHENNAI: Seasoned campaigner Indian Bank suffered a shock 2-0 defeat at the hands of Soccer Club in a CFA senior division league match at the Nehru stadium on Thursday.

Fresh from finishing runner-up in the south zone third division national league qualifier in Chalakudy, the Bank side was expected to have an easy outing. But Soccer Club attacked with confidence built purposeful moves. Speed and long aerial passes unsettled the Bank plans and Soccer club opened up several avenues to the rival end.

It was, however, only at the stroke of half time that Bank goalkeeper Edward Felix was foxed by a beautiful header by P. Karthik off a long cross from the left flank by Kumaran.

While Indian Bank tried to regroup in the second session, the inability to knit good moves and the easy interceptions by the rival players proved stumbling blocks. In addition, goalkeeper Sakthivel came up with some wonderful saves, particularly to check Mike Chinedu's free kicks.

Soccer Club made the issue safe through a flowing right footer by Bharathi Raja in the 50th minute. Earlier, Chennai Port SC edged YMSC 3-2. Mohan, Satheesh and Sagadevan scored for the winner while Sanjay and Ramkumar reduced the margin.

Subramanian-Shyam pair wins

R.V. Subramanian and Shyam Sunder won the T. Nagar Social Club Open Pairs bridge tournament at the club premises here on Tuesday with a score of 67.95 per cent in the North-South Direction. K. Natarajan and N. Vijayan (59.78 per cent) won in the East-West Direction.

Other results: North-South: 2. V. Ramkumar & D.J. James (65.06 per cent), 3. G.V. Krishnan & Ravindran (59.94).

East-West: 2. A. Sridhar & A. Mahadevan (57.69), 3. S. Britto & C. Sathishkumar (56.41).

Abbas scalps five

A. Abbas's five-wicket haul helped Madras Aryan Club defeat TNEB by five wickets in a SPIC-TNCA third division `A' league cricket match..

The scores: Third division `A': Jupiter SC 162 for six in 34 overs (Senthil 80, P.R. Venkata Subramanian four for 56) bt Falcon 141 in 32.2 overs (Swetan Sriram 45, Stephen Raj four for 57).

TNEB 69 in 17 overs (A. Abbas five for 22, B.M. Elangovan four for 45) lost to Madras Aryan Club 72 for five in 13.3 overs.

Fifth division `B': Singaravelar MCC 132 in 28.3 overs (Anand 52, Lucky Dahiya four for 49) lost to Chatnath RC 135 for six in 25.4 overs.

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