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Indian Bank on course to defend title

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Virudhunagar: Indian Bank, Chennai in defence of the men's title, recorded two wins, while Southern Railway, Chennai in defence of the women's title, registered its second win, in their respective semifinal leagues of the fifth annual Arokya Trophy State-level basketball tournament organised by Kamaraj Basketball Club at KVS HSS ground, Virudhunagar on Saturday.

The results: Men (League): Indian Bank 73 (Thangadurai 15, Aravind 12, Javeed Khan 15) bt BSNL, Chennai 58 (Sivarajan 28, Vinodh 14); ICF, Chennai 63 (Boopalan 15, Balaji 20) bt Southern Railway 46 (Pasupathy 24); Indian Bank 88 (Javeed Khan 22, Amarnath Gopi 20, Bhuvaneswaran 16) bt Southern Railway 68 (Pasupathy 32, Azariah Prabakaran 12).

Quarterfinals: Southern Railway 41 (Sivasankar 10, Azariah Prabakaran 11) bt South Zone Police 36 (Venkatesh 14); BSNL 65 (Vinoth 24, Sivarajan 22) bt Armed Police, Madurai 54 (Ramachandran 16, Sankar 12); ICF 42 (Thangavelu 19, Sikkander Oli Raja 13) bt Rajapalayam City BC 32 (Vignesh 13, Udayakumar 12).

Women (League): Southern Railway 65 (Nithya 14, Suba Lakshmi 13, Aadhirai 11) bt Rising Star BC, Chennai 24 (Soumya 10); SAI Salem 45 (Sangeetha 10) bt Rising Star BC, Chennai 35 (Amutha 14).

St. Joseph's in last 16

St. Joseph's College, Tiruchi beat Nilgiris Police 3-2 to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the 24th Champion Club football tournament for the Universal Trophy organised by the Blues Football Club and Sivagangai DFA at the Krishna Stadium in Velangudi near Karaikudi on Saturday.

Mohamed Habib scored in the 11th and 51st minutes and Prakash scored the third in the 76th minute for a 3-0 lead for St. Joseph's College. But Nilgiris Police men attacked strongly thereafter and in a space of seven minutes, Nandakumar scored two goals — first in the 84th and the second in injury time — but time robbed them of getting the equaliser.

In another match, Youngsters Football Club, Avadi thrashed Blood Reds Football Club, Coimbatore 5-1 to enter the pre-quarterfinals.

Ragupathy (19th minute), Saravanan (31st), Kishore Kumar (53rd), Jeffersan (70th) and Raghavan (76th) scored for Youngsters. Senthil (29th) scored the only goal for Blood Reds.

CR posts win

Central Railway, Mumbai beat LMR Basketball Club, Erode 69-16 in the inaugural match of the women's section of the Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Trophy All India basketball tournament at the Tharuvai Stadium, Tuticorin on Saturday.

The results: Central Railway, Mumbai 69 (Reena 22, Ombiny 14) bt LMR BC, Erode 16.

Balaji shines

An all-round performance by Balaji (54 runs and five for 45) helped KKRC Cricket Club chalk out a seven-run victory over Eleven Stars Cricket Club in the Madurai District Cricket Association First Division `B' zone league at Madurai recently.

The scores (First Division) `B' zone: KKRC CC 186 for nine in 40 overs (Balaji 54) bt Eleven Stars CC 179 in 37 overs (Arun 72, Balaji five for 45).

`A' zone: Amigos CC 198 in 45 overs (Santhosh Gopi 62, Thirumurugan 46) lost to TVS CC 200 for eight in 36.2 overs (Srinivasan 40, D. Jeyshankar 69 n.o.).

Sachin holds Rathnakaran

Top-seeded K. Rathnakaran of Southern Railway was held to a draw by Sachin of Kerala in a third-round encounter of the second R. Ramasamy Gounder memorial FIDE-rated open chess tournament at Karur on Saturday.

Important third-round results: K. Rathnakaran (S. Rly) 2.5 drew with Sachin (Kerala) 2.5; Kannan (Sivagangai) 2 lost to Shyam Nikhil (Madurai) 3; Ram S. Krishnan (BSNL) 3 bt M.J. Noohu (Chennai) 2; Lakshminarayanan (Kodaikanal) 2 lost to S. Mariarul (S. Rly) 3; Nitin (Salem) 2.5 drew with Linda Rangarajan (Puducherry) 2.5; Arun (Chennai) 2 lost to R. Ashwath (Chennai) 3; Vinoth Kumar 3 bt Ganesh Babu (Madurai) 2; Lokesh (Hosur) 3 bt O.T. Anil Kumar (Kerala) 2; M.B. Muralidharan (Kerala) 3 bt Jayasekar (Madurai) 2; Premnath (Kanchi) 3 bt Senthilkumaran (Madurai) 2; Muthalagappan (Tiruvallur) 2 lost to Karthikeyan (Chennai) 3; Phoobalan (Coimbatore) 3 bt R. Muralidharan (Madurai) 2; Premanandarajan (Madurai) 2 lost to Dustagir Ibrahim (Madurai) 3; A. Shankar (S. Rly) 3 bt Ganesh (Chenai) 2; Vignesh (Hosur) 2 lost to Vishnu Prasanna (Che) 3; Pounraj (Coimbatore) 3 bt Saravanan (Tiruchi) 2; Tejas (Chennai) 2 lost to Babu (Chennai) 3; Arjun (Kerala) 1.5 lost to Balasubramanian (ICF) 2.5; Abhijeet (Kerala) 1.5 lost to Saravanakrishnan (Kanchi) 2.5; Alaguraja (Madurai) 2.5 bt Santosh (Kanchi) 1.5.

Football tournament

The 42nd annual Moulana Abulkalam Azad memorial Trophy All India football tournament, organised by United Sports Club, will commence with a match between Karnataka Police, Bangalore and Universal Football Club, Calicut at the USC ground in Kayalpatnam on May 8.

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