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Dindigul to meet Tiruvallur in final

Kayalpatnam: Dindigul and Tiruvallur entered the finals of the 17th Tamil Nadu State youth (U-17) football championship for A.G. Subburaman Memorial Cup in contrasting style here on Saturday.

Dindigul had to struggle hard to upset defending champion, Chennai 5-3 via tie breaker, after the teams were locked goalless, while Tiruvallur had a comfortable 3-0 victory over Vellore in the semifinals.

Fine cross

Dilip Kumar put Tiruvallur ahead with a 5th minute strike. In the 13th minute Anandaraj made his way on the right flank and sent a fine cross and the ball landed straight into the net. Sam Abishek, who was about to score in the 63rd minute was tripped by Raja inside the penalty area. Sam made no mistake off the resultant penalty kick.

In the other semifinal, Chennai, which had the better of exchanges, could have won but for squandering many easy chances.

In the tie breaker, all the five — Jaffer, Karthikeyan, Sheik Mohamed, Raguramkumar and Rajalingam scored for Dindigul. Pradeep, Wayne and Ashwin converted for the loser.

Asiatic CA triumphs

G. Santhosh’s five for 17 and an unbeaten 64 by Jeya Bharath Veeran helped Asiatic Cricket Academy (Chennai) defeat Jaffer Cricket Academy (Erode) for its third win in the last match of the four-team league in the State-level Invitation inter-cricket academy tournament and lift the Vignesh Sports Trophy at Dindigul on Saturday.

Jaffer Academy finished runner-up losing only to Asiatic Academy. Orange Shirts Academy (Dindigul) finished third with its only win over PSNA Cricket Academy.

The scores:

Asiatic CA 168 for four in 25 overs (Jeya Bharath Veeran 64 n.o., S. Srinath 36, S. Chandrasekar 30) bt Jaffer CA (Erode) 107 in 21.4 overs (E. Vivek 26, G. Santhosh five for 17); PSNA CA 102 in 19.4 overs (Vignesh 42, Riyaz 29) lost to Orange Shirts CA 103 for no loss in 12.3 overs (Krishna Mohan 50 n.o., Deepan Babu 42 n.o.).

Special awards: batsman: Srinath (ACA); bowler: Sandeep (ACA); all-rounder: S. Kiran Prasad (Jaffer CA).

Syed Ammal EC wins title

Syed Ammal Engineering College (Ramanathapuram) lifted the Nayagan Trophy defeating Majestic Cricket Club by seven wickets, thanks to a five-wicket haul by Lendle Pascal, in the final of the State-level Twenty20 cricket tournament organised by Rainbow Cricket Club at Ramanathapuram on Saturday.

The scores (final):

Majestic CC 68 in 15 overs (Lendle Pascal five for 16, Mahesh three for 12) lost to Syed Ammal EC 69 for three in 10.2 overs (Silambarasan 33, Ram Ganesh 28 n.o.).

Third place: Urumu Dhanalakshmi College 118 for nine in 20 overs (Arun three for 10) bt Nayagan CC 107 for eight in 20 overs (Saran Jeyakumar 51).

Special awards: Man-of-the-Series: Silambarasan (SAEC).

Batsman: Saran Jeyakumar (NCC).

Bowler: Lendle Pascal (SAEC).

TNSP in last four

Tamil Nadu Special Police (TNSP) defeated SSOS (Sangagiri) 3-1 to book a place in the semifinals of the State-level hockey tournament, jointly conducted by Cuddalore District Hockey Association and Eleven Star Hockey Club, at Cuddalore on Saturday.

The results:

Quarterfinals: Tamil Nadu Special Police 3 (Sathath Khan, Krishna Kumar, Ramesh Kumar) bt SSOS 1 (Balaji); Thirunagar HC 1 (Kodipandian) bt SAI (Chennai) 0.

Chennai City Police bt Mount Star HC (Chennai) 5-3 (via tie-breaker).

AGS (Chennai) 2 (Anbu, Sudalaimuthu) bt Friends HC (Chennai) 1 (Balaji).

Lakshminarayanasamy elected president

V. Lakshminarayanasamy has been elected president of the Coimbatore District Hockey Association at its annual general body meeting held at Coimbatore recently.

Office bearers:

V. Lakshminarayansamy (president), V. Udayakumar (vice-president & treasurer), K. Shanmugam, M. Sivakumar (vice-presidents), P. Senthil Rajkumar (hon. secretary), M. Mohan Kumar (hon. joint secretary), C.V. Sundarrajon (hon. asst. secretary).

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