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Facile win for Divakar Memorial

CHENNAI: Divakar Memorial defeated St. Paul’s RC 5-2 in a Chennai Hockey Association first division league match at the SDAT-Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium here on Saturday.

Ganesh (3), Magesh and Rajasekar scored for Divakar Memorial. For St. Paul’s RC, Kumaresan converted a brace.

Other results: Toranto HC 1 (Babu Ramesh) bt Kottur Full Moon 0; Chennai Telephones 1 (Panneer Selvam) bt Coronation HC 0; S. Rly. ‘B’ 6 (Senthil Nathan 2, Sugadu, Praveen, Vasanth 2) bt Morning Star 0.

Boost Cup matches postponed

Boost Cup-TNCA city schools under-17 cricket tournament matches for the C. Ramaswamy Trophy scheduled for Tuesday (October 23) stand postponed due to inclement weather and poor ground conditions.

Easy for Don Bosco

Don Bosco MHSS defeated SBOA School and Junior College by nine wickets in the Godrej city schools under-14 cricket tournament here on Monday.

The scores:

SBOA School and Junior College 35 in 14.9 overs (Ganpath four for 14, Jim Isreal three for eight) lost to Don Bosco MHSS 36 for one in 6.1 overs.

Sivaswamy Kalalaya SSS 102 in 20.2 overs (Srijith 28, L. Karthik 25, Varun four for 20, Hari three for five) lost to MCC HSS 105 for two in 18.5 overs (David 35, Kishore 26 not out).

St. John’s MHSS 102 for six in 25 overs (R. Kivin 34) bt St. Michael’s Academy 100 in 23 overs (Mukunth 46, Pravin four for 12).

St. John’s SSS 47 in 17.4 overs (Ajith four for 11, Mithun three for 12) lost to Pudur Govt. HSS 48 for one in 7.4 overs (Venkatesh 33 not out).

Praful Chand wins

Praful Chand won in category A of the Chennai leg of the Indotech MGC South Zone junior golf tournament on Sunday.

Despite early morning rain, the field remained undeterred. The competition in the various categories was keen and the final results in several categories showed ties that were decided by the better second day scorecard.

Final results with leading positions: Category A: Praful Chand 159, 2. Akhil Rao 160, 3. Tarun Veeraghavan 160.

Category B: 1. Akhil Rao 160, 2. Rahul Ravi 161, 3. Saqib Ahmed 162.

Category C: Vashishta S Pawar 161, 2. Akash Srinivasan 172, 3. Rohan Raj 175, 4. Akshath175.

Category D: 1. D Venkat Gautham 179, 2. K Sidharth 203, 3. Rittik Ravindran 203, 4. Surya Kumar 212.

TNTBA office-bearers

Karti P. Chidambaram was elected as the president of the Tamil Nadu Tenpin Bowling Association (TNTBA) at its annual general body meeting held recently.

Other office-bearers: Vice-president: Rajmohan Palaniappan; Secretary: G. Dinesh Kumar; Treasurer: Karpagam Kalyanaraman.

Union Christian cruises

Host Union Christian HSS beat Don Bosco 26-10 in a boys’ match of the Renny Abraham memorial inter-school basketball tournament here.

The results: Boys: Union Christian 26 (Roshan 15, Rasnafar 10) bt Don Bosco 10; Vidya Mandir 37 (Sankar 12, Tiresh 11) bt Lady Andal 26. Girls: DAV HSS 18 bt Union Christian HSS 6.

Chess tournament

Bloom Chess Academy will conduct a State-level open tournament at the Hall of Chess, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, on October 27 and 28.

The tournament, open to all, has a total prize fund of Rs. 20,000, including prizes for the under-8, 10, 12, and 14 categories.

Contact T. Jagadeesh, Organising Secretary, on 98409 90979 for details.

Yogesh, Priya for Asian indoor games

P. Yogesh Kumar and C.S. Priya of Tamil Nadu will represent India in the second Asian indoor games at Macau from October 31 to November 3.

Yogesh and Priya are students of SBOA MHSS (Anna Nagar). Tamil Nadu’s K. Siva Prasad, an international referee, will be the technical official for the championship.

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