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Prem Prakash triumphs

CHENNAI: S. Prem Prakash of Coimbatore won the State billiards title for the 16th time, beating R. Girish of the Reddy Global Services 1704-1088 in the final of the Abirami Mega Mall-TNBSA State-ranking tournament at the TNBSA premises on Thursday.

Prem, attached to the Champions Billiards Academy, started on a leisurely note, allowing Girish to dominate initially with breaks of 92, 81 and 68 to lead by 250 points at the end of the first session.

Banking on his experience, Prem rallied brilliantly to win by 616 points. The Coimbatore player showed his strength in the top table game and with breaks of 122, 102, 143, 90 and 74 wrapped up the match. The two finalists will represent Tamil Nadu in the forthcoming Nationals in Hyderabad.

Other results: Billiards: Semifinals: Girish (RSP) bt S.A.Saleem (MCC) 832-715; Prem Prakash (CBA) bt Praveen (CBA) 1296-714.Snooker: round robin league: Grade A: Pranit (TNBSA) bt Surendar (Erode) 82-45, 67-27, 26-66, 75-16, 58-24; Harpreet (MCC) bt Praveenkumar (CBA) 51-56, 63-44, 40-54, 78-08, 72-22, 33-82, 77-0. Group B: Vijai Nichani (CBA) bt M. Senthil (Seafarers) 52-45, 73-39, 58-13, 63-30; Kamaraj (SVS) bt Krishna Deepak (TNBSA) 5-39, 60-4, 66-33, 67-14. Group C: Nabeel (TNBSA) bt Fahd (Qshot) 42-88, 53-14, 46-54, 11-58, 62-16, 82-58. Group D: Magesh (TNSC) bt Rajkumar (TNSC) 41-65, 61-10, 53-45, 64-48, 62-69, 76-10.

Nikhil wins gold

Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu’s Nikhil Chittarasu won the boys’ under-18 high jump event (1.89m) on the opening day of the three-day 21st State junior athletic championship here on Friday.

The results:

Boys: U-20: 10,000m: 1. A. Mathivanan (SDAT AT) 33:32.6s, 2. R. Rajesh (St. Joseph’s Prime SA) 33:36.5, 3. R. Paneerselvam (Kavinadu Youth SC) 35:54.2; High jump: U-18: 1. Nikhil Chittarasu (SDAT) 1.89m, 2. Bogin Raj (SDAT) 1.89m, 3. V.B. Pranav (St. Joseph’s Prime SA) 1.86m.

Girls U-20: 5000m: 1. R. Mala (Kavinadu Youth Club) 19:41.1, 2. B. Yuvarani (Kanchepuram SDAT) 20:29.3, 3. D. Saraswathi (Kancheepuram SDAT) 20:53.0.

HSS triumphs

Hindu Senior Secondary School (Adyar) and Chettinad Vidyashram (R.A. Puram) emerged the boys’ and girls’ champions in the CBSE Cluster V basketball tournament, organised by the PSBB School (K.K. Nagar), at the NehruIndoor Stadium here.

In the final, Hindu defeated PSBB (K.K. Nagar) 57-53.

Meanwhile the Chettinad girls beat PSBB (Nungambakkam) 46-27 to win the title for the eighth year in a row.

Other results:

Boys: Third place: La Chatelaine bt PSBB (Nungambakkam) 53-41; Semifinals: Hindu bt PSBB 53-23; PSBB bt La Chatelaine 44-43. Girls: Third place: PSBB (K.K. Nagar) bt Vidya Mandir (Mylapore) 30-27; Semifinals: Chettinad bt Vidya Mandir 44-6; PSBB (Nungambakkam) bt PSBB (K.K. Nagar) 31-12.

Arjn sizzles

Arjun top-scored with 20 points as Union Christian (UC) defeated SBOA Matric 60-45 in the league qualifying round of the SVS inter-school basketball tournament on Friday.

The results:

Boys: League: Union Christian 43 (Chacku 17) bt St. Michael’s 18; St. Vincent’s ‘A’ 25 (Jihad 10) bt St. Bede’s 10.

League qualifying round: St. Bede’s 53 (Jude 14) bt Sherwood Hall 28 (Uday Singh 10); St. Vincent’s ‘A’ 58 (Vijay Kiran 15) bt Lady Andal 31 (Chandra 10); Union Christian 60 (Arjun 20) bt SBOA Matric 45 (Vigneshwar 18); St. Michael’s 49 (Kevin 18) bt Don Bosco 43 (Yogesh 18).

Girls: Vidyodaya 29 (Divya 12) bt Sherwood Hall 12; Lady Andal 16 (Chandra 10) bt Union Christain 16 (Shreya 10).

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