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South Zone posts win

Bangalore: South Zone defeated ABSC 2-1 in a SAI inter-region hockey tournament match at the KSHA Stadium here on Friday.

The results: SZ 2 (Vinod, Nithin) bt ABSC 1 (Binay); Central Zone 2 (Nadeem, Ashish) bt East Zone 0.

Nischal hits hundred

Nischal’s unbeaten 102 set up Presidency School’s 124-run win over Baldwin School in a Nazeer Memorial inter-school T20 tournament’s semifinal league match here on Friday.

The scores: Presidency School 176 for no loss in 15 overs (Nischal 102 n.o., Vijay 61 n.o.) bt Baldwin School 52 in 14.2 overs; Miranda HS 91 in 19.4 overs (Dheeraj 41) lost to Presidency (Rt Nagar) 94 for two in 13.1 overs; FAPS 132 for four in 20 overs (Tilak 42, Rohith 41) bt Bethanys HS 107 in 20 overs (Mohith four for 18).

Big win for Bishop Cottons ‘A’

Bishop Cottons ‘A’ defeated FAPS 5-1 in a Tanvi Rao Memorial inter-school girls’ hockey tournament match here on Friday. Neha (2), Ruchita, Mahira and Vaishnavi scored for the victor while Pavitra scored for FAPS.

Other result: St. Euphrasia’s `A’ 4 (Elizabeth 2, Sandra 2) bt SFX ‘A’ 0.

Seven share lead

Seven players including International Master R.R. Laxman and Grandmaster norm holder M.S. Thej Kumar shared the top position after the third round in the individual matches of the 21st all-India Railway chess championship in Hubli on Friday.

Points tally after third round: R.R. Laxman (SR), M.S. Thej Kumar (SWR), Shashikant Kutwal (WR), S. Mari Arul (SR), Prakash Ram (NR), Abhishek Das (SWR), J. Venkata Ramana (SCR) — 3 points; A. Shankar (SR), T.J. Sureshkaur (ICF), Vikas Sharma (NR), Gurpreet Singh Pal (NR), Soumyaranjan Mishra (CR), K. Gunasekaran (ICF), Pankaj Joshi (WR), Syed Anwar Shazuli (ICF), B.T. Murali Krishnan — 2.5 points; Latu Chattarjee (ER), Arjun Tiwari (WR), Ravi Kandi (SCR), Amardeep S. Bartakke (WR), Vinod R. Sharma (SECR), Arindam Mukherjee (ER), Pradip Ghosh (ER), Mahendra Lakhyani (NWR), Rajesh Kumar (SER), Umesh Shaw (SER) — 2 points; Ramanathan Balasubramaniam (ICF), Vikramjit S. Singh (SCR), Sanjay Verma (SER) — 1.5 points.

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