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Ibrahim in sole lead

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Tuticorin: Dusthagir Ibrahim of Madurai drew with third seed, IM Ramanathan Balasubramanian of ICF in the seventh round to emerge sole leader (6.5 points) in the 19th SPIC Trophy FIDE-rated open chess tournament here on Thursday.

Other results (seventh round): D.P. Singh (6) bt Vinoth Kumar (5); P. Shyam Nikil (5.5) drew with P. Maheswaran (5.5); M.V. Lakshmi Narayanan (6) bt C. Natarajan (5); Syed Anwar, Shazuli (6) bt P. Lokesh (5); P. Phoobalan (5) lost to M.B. Muralidharan (5.5); R.K. Ranjith (4.5) lost to R.R. Laxman(5.5); S. Nitin (5.5) bt D.V. Surjeet (4.5); Rao, K. Damodar (5.5) bt P. Pounraj (4.5); Vishnu Prasanna (4.5) lost to Naveen S. Hegde (5.5); T. Chinnadurai (4.5) lost to M. Kunal (5.5); T. Gowtham (5) bt Vijay M. Anand (4.5); T.R. Shanmuganathan (4.5) drew with P. Rajasekaran (4.5); B. Sekar (4) lost to Venkat Sundaram (5); R. Visalatchi (4.5) drew with M.A. Alaguraja (4.5); V. Ram Kumar (5) bt G. Ravi (4); P. Dhandapani (4.5) drew with N. Surendran (4.5); K. Narayanan (5) bt A. Anand Sivasankar (4); V. Karunakaran (4.5) drew with A. Arun (4.5); Srinidhi Nagarajan (4) M. Natarajan (5) Stanley P. Samson (5) bt R. Bharathi (4); Vasantha Rubavarman (5) bt S. Ganesh Babu (4) Gnana G. Sekhar (3.5) lost to C.V. Raghuram Balaji (4.5); A. Ravi Shankar (4.5) bt S. Kaushik (3.5); K. Ganesan (4) drew with A. Ketharnath (4); A. Asmathulla (3.5) lost to Merryston David Scanny (4.5); S.S. Manigandan (4) drew with A. Nagaarjuna (4); P. Dharmaraj (4.5) bt M. Balamurugan (3.5); M. Sivaraj (3.5) lost to M. Bhushan (4.5); Manjunath Jain (3.5) lost to Osama Salim (4.5).

Deaf chess championship

The second TN chess championship for the deaf will be conducted jointly by Tamil Nadu Chess Association and All Madurai District Association of the Deaf at New College House, Madurai on October 8. For details contact S. Kanagaraj, General secretary, All Madurai District Association of the Deaf, Thembavani Hospital, A.A. Road, Gnanolivupuram, Madurai - 625 016.

WCC spikers triumph

Host Women's Christian College retained the volleyball title and St. Mary's College, Tuticorin scored a `double', adding the kho-kho title to the table tennis title, in the Manonmaninam Sundaranar University women's games meet at Nagercoil on Thursday.

Holy Cross College, Nagercoil retained the ball badminton title, while Sri Ayyappa College, Nagercoil clinched the kabaddi title.

The results:

Volleyball: Final: Women Christian College, Nagercoil bt St. Mary's College, Tuticorin 25-23, 25-15, 25-18.Third place: Saraha Tucker College, Palayamkottai bt Holy Cross College, Nagercoil 23-25, 25-20, 25-15, 25-13.

Ball Badminton: Final: Holy Cross College, Nagercoil bt Thiruvalluvar College, Papanasam 25-29, 29-24, 29-13. Third place: St. Mary's College, Tuticorin bt Sri Sarada College, Palaymkottai 29-10, 29-8.

Kabaddi: Final: Sri Ayyappa College, Nagercoil beat St. Mary's College, Tuticorin 44-29 after leading 19-17 at half time. Third place: Govindammal Aditanar College, Tiruchendur bt Vivekanda College, Agasteeswaram 56-28.

Kho-Kho: Final: ST. Mary's College, Turicorin bt Govindammal Aditanar College, Tiruchendur by an innings and solitary point (ST. Mary's I innings 7, Govindammal I innings 2, II innings 4) Third place: Scott Christian College, Nagercoil bt Sri Ayyappa College, Nagercoil by an innings and 6 points (Scott I innings 9 v Ayyappa innings 1, II innings 2).

Madura College triumphs

Host Madura College retained the Prema Vilas Trophy defeating Sourashtra College by four wickets in the Madruai Kamaraj University `B' Zone inter-collegiate cricket tournament at Madurai on Thursday.

The scores: Sourashtra College 139 in 24 overs (Ranjith 49) lost to Madura College 140 for six in 29 overs (Arun 32, Krishnankumar 42 not out).

Carrom league

The Madurai District carrom league championship, sponsored by Kamaraj Club, will be conducted by Madurai District Carrom Association at Sourashtra club on October 1 and 2.

For details, contact Syed Abudhahir, Joint Secretary, M.D.C.A. PH: 98434 93712.

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