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City teams to the fore

CHENNAI: The gulf in the standards between the district and city teams came to the fore again to render another flood of goals in the Champion Club football tournament at the Nehru stadium on Tuesday.

At the end of the day both the city teams — Nethaji and Arrows — moved into the quarterfinal phase. Nethaji defeated Youth FC Nagapattinam 9-1 while Arrows, despite looking goal shy, recorded a 5-0 win over Selvam FC, Namakkal.

The contest produced little to cheer. As though that was not enough was the eyesore of having to witness players of one team (Namakkal) with fancy numbers on their backs.

Granted a ‘colour clash’ had led to the need for replacement jerseys of another colour. But why allow a number stream that does not conform to the rules of the game?

Arrows, which was a revelation in the recent CFA senior division league, was ready for a big margin win.

But after a 3-0 first half, the team slowed down and the players looked more intent in passing the ball around than designing an attacking pattern.

For the record, Ezekiel (two), Ravi Moses, Murugan and Merwin (both substitutes) were the scorers.

In the earlier match, Ogar Sundyayuk scored five goals including a hat-trick. Gunasekaran, Guru (two) and Sugan were the other scorers for Nethaji. Md Udhuman scored the lone goal for Youth club.

IOB records win

Indian Overseas Bank started the campaign with a four-set victory over Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDAT) in Pool B of the Panimalar-John Memorial all-India volleyball tournament at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium on Tuesday. IOB won 29-27, 24-26, 25-20, 25-17.

Moses and Raja were outstanding for the winner.

In the women’s section, Southern Railway overcame Dr. Sivanthi Club 25-15, 12-25, 27-29, 25-23, 15-12.

Mr. Sivanthi Adityan, President, Volleyball Federation of India, inaugurated the tournament.

It’s Velammal again

Velammal MHSS bagged the BJ Rolling Trophy for the fourth consecutive year in the Vishy Anand-Hero Cycles Tamil Nadu inter-school children’s chess tournament, which concluded here on Sunday. The tournament was organised by the Vishy Anand Chess Academy and was sponsored by BJ Expo Pvt. Ltd., Avadi.

B. Jayaraman, Chairman & MD, B.J. Expo Pvt. Ltd., distributed the prizes.

Final results (winners only, all given Hero cycle as prize): Boys: U-8: V.S. Rathanvel (Stanes HSS) 7; U-10: Aaditya Jagadeesh (S.R.D.K. Vivekananda Vidyalaya) 6; U-12: Osama Slim (Velammal MHSS) 7; U-14: N. Raj Kumar (Velammal MHSS) 6.5; U-18: R. Ramnath Bhuvamesh (SBOA JC) 6; Consolation prize: D.R. Navin Kumar (R.M.K. MHSS, Ponneri) 6.

Girls: U-8: K. Krithiga (The Ashram MHSS, K.K. Nagar) 6.5/7; U-10: U. Ahwini (Church Park MHSS, Gopalapuram) 6; U-12: Michalle Catherina (Good Shepered) 7; U-14: J. Saranya (Velammal MHSS) 7; U-18: P. Uthra (Velammal MHSS) 6; Consolation prize: B. Krithika (S.B. Vijaya Reddiyar MHSS) 6.

State-level chess

The ninth Sethu Bhaskara Rolling Trophy State-level open chess tournament for under-8, 10, 12 and 14 boys and girls will be organised by the Thiruvallur District Association on April 24 and 25.

Call S.P.P. Selvakumar, Principal, Sethu Bhaskara MHSS, at 26585871 for details.

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