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AOC Centre beats AC

HYDERABAD: AOC Centre edged out Artillery Centre 4-3 via sudden death in the semifinals of the Justice K. Madhava Reddy memorial hockey tournament for seniors at Begumpet Police Stadium here on Wednesday.

The teams were locked goalless at the end of regulation time. In the tie-breaker, Bharath, Satya Prakash and Topno scored for AOC, while Jaswinder Singh, Ranjit Singh and Balaraj scored for Artillery. In the sudden death, Swamy netted the match-winner.

Meanwhile, Hyderabad Hockey Association secretary G. Satyanarayana stated that the Super Six hockey league championship, scheduled to commence from November 13, had been postponed in view of the repairs to sprinklers system at the Police Stadium. Fresh dates will be announced later.

Paramveer shines

A good knock by Paramveer Singh (95, 15x4) helped SA Sports, Amberpet, score 246 against Nizam College in the A Division (two-day) league cricket championship match in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

The scores: A-Division: SA Sports Amberpet 246 (Paramveer Singh 95, Kiran Napoleon four for 74, Sheikh Urooj four for 38) vs. Nizam College 129 for five (D.Yudhveer Singh 42); C-Division one-day knock-out: Royal 75 lost to Concorde 76 for five (Balakrishna four for 13); CK Blues 239 (S.B. Sharath 54) bt Lord's 145 (Pradeep four for 30, Laxman Yadav four for 32); Reliance 199 for seven (N.S. Ajay Kumar 103) bt ML Jaisimha XI 161(Raghav 47, V. Dashrath Kumar four for 10); Sportive 210 (C.Abhiman 42) bt Nizamabad 183 (Alexander 42).

Easy for Warangal Circle

Warangal Circle defeated Machilipatnam 25-8, 25-13 in the quarterfinals of the 21st South-Central Zonal-level volleyball tournament here on Wednesday.

The results: Quarterfinals: Bangalore bt Vizag 25-12, 25-15, 25-17; Warangal bt Kadapa 23-25, 25-11, 25-13, 25-11; Mysore bt Machilipatnam 25-12, 25-15, 25-17; Udipi bt Raichur 18-25, 25-13, 22-25, 25-23, 15-9. League: Bangalore bt Hyderabad 25-16, 26-20; Raichur bt Nellore 25-9, 25-9; Mysore bt Kadapa 25-16, 25-13; Warangal bt Machilipatnam 25-8, 25-13; Karimnagar bt Dharwad 25-23, 25-21; Belgaum bt Rajahmundry 25-13, 25-13.

Commissioner's XI wins

Commissioner's XI scored a 43-run win over Rotary Club Sunrise (Secunderabad) in a cricket match organised by Glendale Academy on Wednesday.

The scores: Commissioner's XI 161 for eight (V.G. Srimanth 39, Sridhar four for 23) bt Rotary Club Sunrise 118 (Sarathy 31).

Sports meet

Valerian Grammar School will organise a sports meet from November 11 to 12 on its premises in Bolarum in which 14 schools from four districts will take part, according to Rev.Marampuri Joji, Archbishop of Hyderabad and chairman of HAES.

Laxman chief guest

Test cricketer V.V.S. Laxman will be the chief guest for the sports day celebrations of Sri Ramakrishna Vidyalaya (Sainikpuri) on its premises at 3.30 p.m. on November 11. Sailaja Laxman will give away the prizes. Brig G. Ramalingam (retd), director of BSRKV, will preside.

Jaichander to lead

Jaichander will lead AP BSNL in the fifth all India BSNL inter-circle cricket tournament in Mumbai from November 14 to 21.

The team: Jaichander (capt.), K. John, K. Durga Prasad, A.G.V. Ramakrishna, G. Balraj, A. Sugunakar, Naveen Kumar, Thakur S. Singh (wk), Sekhar Babu, K. Praveen Kumar, R.N. Ravi Krishna, D.K. Ananth Rao, S. Narender and K. Srinivasa Rao; Coach: G. Satyanarayana. Manager: A. Kasiviswanatham.

Bridge tournament

Citizen's Club of Siddipet will organise an annual Open bridge championship on November 12 and 13. ntries close on November 11. For details contact ph no: 93924 31080.

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