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Big win for National United CC

Bangalore: National United Cricket Club thumped St. Joseph's College by 417 runs in a KSCA Sri. J.B. Mallaradhya Trophy cricket match for Group I, Division V, here recently.

Sri Karthik, Manjesh, and Nandeesh all helped themselves to centuries as National United rattled up 479 runs in the allotted 50 overs. Sharath then wreaked havoc with the ball, returning figures of six for 30, as St. Joseph's College was dismissed for a paltry 62.

The scores: Zodiac CC 158 in 43.4 overs (Venkatesh 32, Bhanu Prakash 26, Nithin four for 50, Vishal three for 18) bt Bangalore Dynamos SC 129 in 28.5 overs (Christopher 30, Mayur 28, Nikhil 25, Sudheer five for 26, Shashi four for 44).

Magadi CC 205 in 39.1 overs (J. Ajit 50, P.C. Venkatesh 36, Kiran 27, Ramchandra three for 48) lost to Govt. RC College 209 for eight in 36.3 overs (L. Naveen 80 n.o., L. Harish 27, P.C. Venkatesh four for 38).

Sapphire CC 204 in 45.2 overs (Vikas 34, Manoj Kumar 32, Prashanth 29, M. Naveen 29, Dilip Narayan four for 35, Sandeep four for 37) lost to City Gymkhana 208 for eight in 33.1 overs (Mithun 79, Harsha 48, Pradeep three for 46).

Canarese CC 165 in 49.5 overs (Chiranth 55, K.S. Pavan 34, Anand four for 42) lost to Engrade CC 168 for seven in 28 overs (Arun Kumar 75, Srinath 53, K.N. Ranganth five for 52).

National United CC 479 for five in 50 overs (Sri Karthik 151, Manjesh 108, Nandeesh 100, Subramania Raju 43, Chandrashekar 32) bt St. Joseph's College 62 in 14.3 overs (Harman 26, Sharath six for 30, Kiran three for 27).

Coles CC 101 in 29.5 overs (Sagar seven for 20) lost to Elite Blues CC 102 for two in 12.2 overs (Hariprasad 47 n.o.).

Caravan Cricketers 105 in 35.1 overs (S. Suresh 30, Adrick Cardoza three for 19, S. Pramod three for 28) lost to Star Cricketers XI 108 for four in 18 overs (Kiran Kumar 33 n.o., Abhijith Subramanyam 26 n.o.).

Vijay-Mithun final

Vijay Sundar Prashant and Mithun Murali, both from Tamil Nadu, justified their seedings and will cross swords for the men's singles title in the Rs. 3.5 lakh Enerzal Open senior National ranking tennis tournament.

At the Tennis Excellence courts here on Friday, the top seed Vijay ended the winning streak of former Davis Cupper Vijay Kannan 6-1, 6-4, while Mithun was taken the distance by seventh seed Vinod Sridhar before prevailing in three hard-fought sets 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5).

The results: Men: Singles: Semifinals: Vijay Sundar Prasanth (TN) bt Vijay Kannan (TN) 6-1, 6-4; Mithun Murali (TN) bt Vinod Sridhar (TN) 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5). Men's doubles: Final: Mithun & Vijay bt Aaditya Tewari & Anand Kunal 6-1, 6-3.

Women: Singles: Semifinals: Isha Lakhani (Kar) bt Sharon Paul (TN) 7-6 (3), 6-2; Parija Maloo (Mah) bt Seelulee Upadhyaya (Ors) 6-2, 6-1. Mixed doubles: Final: Parija & Sagar Manjanna bt Elwin Antony & Sharon 6-2, 6-2 .

Big win for Army Red

Arumugam, S. Ali, and M.C. Singh all netted braces as Army Red posted a resounding 7-0 win over MEG here on Friday to remain on top of the Ozonegroup State Super Division hockey league table.

C.S. Xalco also got on to the scoresheet as MEG's winless campaign continued.

IOCL, meanwhile, remained in second place, albeit only on goal difference, after defeating ASC 8-0. Inderjit Chadha scored a hat-trick for the oil men while V.R. Raghunath maintained his goal glut with a double.

The results:

IOCL 8 (Roshan Minz 28, Hamza Majitaba 29, Inderjit Chadha 39, 60, 69, V.R. Raghunath 39, 41, Gangandeep Singh 54) bt ASC 0.

Army Red 7 (Arumugam 12, 41, C.S. Xalco 15, S. Ali 31, 48, M.C. Singh 57, 63) bt MEG 0.

BPCL 4 (Jarnail Singh 27, Tushar Khandekar 48, 64, William Xalco 52) bt Army Green 1 (Lavpreet 32).

Catholic Club lost the opening snooker game but bounced back through Karl Alphonso and Eugene to win the billiards event and the second snooker game to clinch a 2-1 win over Indiranagar Club and enter the quarterfinals of the Shri Gopal N. Chugh inter-club handicap snooker & billiards tournament here.

The results:

Sadashivanagar Club ‘B' bt Century Club 2–0.

Bangalore City Inst. bt Koramangala Club 2-1.

Indian Gymkhana bt KSBA ‘D' 2-0; Bangalore Club bt Bowring Inst. ‘B' 2-1.

Bowring Inst ‘A' bt Indian Gymkhana ‘B' 2-0; KSCA ‘A' bt KSBA ‘A' 2-1.

Malleswaram Club bt KSCA ‘B' 2-1; Catholic Club bt Indiranagar Club 2-1.

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