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Harshan, Vikasini take trophies

Coimbatore: R.N. Harshan of Perks MHSS scored a hard fought 22-20, 18-21, 21-18 win over Adarsh Vikram of Stanes AIHSS to clinch the under-13 boys’ title in the Coimbatore district badminton ranking tournament here on Saturday.

Earlier, K.A. Vikasini of Karpagam MHSS defeated Keerthi Malini of Vivekalaya 21-8, 21-10 to win the under-10 girls’ title.

Other results:

Men (pre-quarterfinals): Mutharasu (OC) bt Mohan (AKYBC) 21-16, 21-6; S.C. Adithya bt Karppuswamy (Deva) 21-12, 21-9; Mohan Kumar (OC) bt Venkatachalapathy (Deva) 21-16, 13-21, 21-16; S. Saravanakumar (AKYBC) bt Vijay Shankar (AKYBC) 2 1-13, 21-19; N. Gopinath (AKYBC) bt C. Manoj (KO) 21-5, 21-8; N. Sriram (KO) bt Lionel 21-19, 21-11; Madhu (AKYBC) bt Jagadeesan (Deva) 21-17, 21-8; S. Varun Anand (PSGCAS) bt Dharani (Stanes) 8-6 (conceded).

Boys:

Semifinals: U-10: P. Soundararajan (VN) bt S. Vikash (Perks) 21-16, 21-10; P.T. Harshath (Karpagam) bt K.M. Rahul 21-10, 21-3.

U-16: Dharani Vasudevan (Stanes) bt T. Meyyanbu (RMHSS) 21-18, 14-21, 21-19; S. Sudhan bt G. Sarath 21-16, 19-21, 21-15.

U-19: N. Sriram (KO) bt Shravan 21-11, 21-15; S.C. Adithya (Stanes) bt Raghul Murthy (KO) 21-3, 21-3.

Girls:

U-13 (quarterfinals): Aditi Anand (KO) bt Saroj Krishna (KO) 21-4, 21-7; Arpita Lulla (SBOA) bt Subashree Hari (BVB) 21-7, 21-4; Sneha Kamath (Stanes) bt Vishrutha (Stanes) 21-10, 21-2; K.A. Vikasini (Karpagam) bt G. Shibani (Stanes) 2 1-14, 21-6.

U-16 (semifinals): S. Archana (VN) bt P.L. Swarnam (Stanes) 21-10, 21-8; Pooja S. Shah (VN) bt R.P. Divya (KO) 22-20, 21-12.
Vijay in final

Vijay Nichani of Champions Billiards Academy scored a thrilling 4-3 win over Magesh of TNSC (Chennai) to enter the final of the second non-medallist billiards tournament for the H.A. Sivalingaiah Rolling Trophy here on Saturday.
Inter-school football

The Shree Baldevas Kikani Vidyamandir Trust and the Kikani Institutions will conduct an inter-school football tournament at the Kikani grounds here from July 2 to 6.
Cricket selection trials

The selection trials for the Coimbatore district under-22 cricket team will be held at the Sri Ramakrishna Cricket Trust nets at the SNR Sons College grounds here on July 5 at 3.30 p.m.

The under-13 and under-17 trials also will be held at the same venue on July 7 at 8 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. respectively.
Pearl City posts win

Pearl City Volleyball Club defeated Classic Volleyball Club 25-21 in a men’s league encounter of the third State Beach Volleyball Championship, conducted by the Thanjavur District Volleyball Association, in Thanjavur on Saturday.

The results (League):

GHSS, Thitachery (Amuthan-Madavan) bt VGS Club (Viji-Prasad) 25-20; Pearl City VC (George Rovins-Premnath) bt Classic VC (Augustine- Madavan) 25-21; Dindigul (Sundarrajan-Boopathi) bt Crescent VC (Ismail-Sameen) 25-10.
Chennai enters final

Chennai entered the final of the 23rd Tamil Nadu State sub-junior inter-district football championship defeating defending champion Tiruvallur 1-0 at Theni on Saturday.

Ashokan headed in the only goal off a flag kick by Pradeep in the 65th minute.

Chennai will meet Tirunelveli in the final, with the latter prevailing over Dindigul by an identical 1-0 margin in the other semifinal.

Sabastin headed in a cross from Franklin Selvaraj in the 13th minute to put Tirunelveli ahead.

Dindigul, thereafter, attacked strongly to find the equaliser but its forwards squandered many easy chances.

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