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SAI (Chennai) dethrones ICF

Madurai: SAI (Chennai) dethroned Integral Coach factory (Chennai) in men's section with a 31-14 victory in the men's final of the 51st Tamil Nadu State senior kabaddi championship, organised by Madurai District Amateur Kabaddi Association, at Checkanurani near here on Thursday night.

There was a commotion midway in the men's final in the first half when the stage, where the prize distribution had to take place, collapsed. However all the VIPs, including the Deputy Mayor, P.M. Mannan, and chief minister M. Karunanidhi's daughter-in-law Gandhi Alagiri escaped unhurt, Sports Minister Moideen Khan, Mayor Thenmozhi Gopinathan, and Sholavadan, MLA, P. Moorthy, who suffered only minor injuries.

Within 10 minutes everything was set right and the final continued. After the men and women's finals were over, Mrs. Gandhi Alagiri gave away the prizes.

Chennai District team won the women's title with a hard-earned 8-7 victory over Tamil Nadu Police.

Madurai finished third in both the men and women's events. In the play off women's match, Madurai beat Erode 23-20, while men's team got a walk over from Sun Paper Mills, Cheranmadavi.

Vinoth shines

Vinoth's five for 20 helped Muthiah Alagappa MHSS, Kottaiyur, defeat Kamban MHSS, Karaikudi, by 132 runs in the Sivagangai District inter-school cricket tournament for Pitchaimani Nadar Trophy at Karaikudi on Friday.

The scores: Muthiah Alagappa MHSS 171 in 20 overs (Jidhu Venkatraman 47) bt Kamban MHSS 39 in 14.5 overs (Vinoth five for 10); Alagappa MHSS, Karaikudi 178 for four in 20 overs (Praveen 44 not out) bt Arumugam Pillai Seetha Ammal HSS, Tiruppathur 52 in 13.2 overs; Chittal Achi HSS, Kandanoor 85 in 17 overs lost to Govt. HSS, Ariyakudi 86 for six in 10.2 overs; 21st Century HSS, Sivagangai 51 in 11.4 overs lost to Kendriya Vidyalaya, Karaikudi 52 for no loss in 3.2 overs; Ramanathan Chettiar Middle School, Karaikudi 92 in 17.4 overs lost to Christ Raja Matriculation School, Tiruppattur 93 for seven in 13.3 overs; SMSV HSS, Karaikudi 105 for seven in 20 overs lost to LFRC School 109 for one in 17.2 overs.

Vijay, Senthil advance

Top seed Vijay Anand (Cuddalore) and second seed Senthil Velan (Erode) moved into the men's singles third round of the Sri Jayavilas Tamil Nadu senior State badminton ranking tournamentwith easy wins at Madurai on Friday.

The results:

Men's singles (Second round):

Vijay Anand (Cud) bt Iryyappan (Pdk) 21-7, 21-6; Senthil Velan (Erd) bt Deepak Narayanan (Che) 21-10, 21-11; Velavan (Che) bt R. Karthick (Pdk) 21-13, 21-15; Sivakumar (Che) bt Suriya (Mdu) 21-9, 21-10; Prakash (Mdu) bt Jerfin (Mdu) 21-8, 21-14; R. Mahendran (Pdk) bt Mohd. Zameer (Che) 21-18, 21-13; M. Saravanakumar (Rmd) bt Bhuvanesh (Mdu) 21-12, 21-18; S. Subramanian (Mdu) bt Surendar (Cud) 21-13, 21-7; N. Venkatesh (Mdu) bt K. Dinesh (Pdk) 21-8, 21-10; Navin Prasad (Slm) bt K. Ishanth (Pdk) 21-13, 21-13; Aravinth (Mdu) bt Abdullah 21-12, 21-19; Bharath (Mdu) bt Yaswanth (Mdu) 21-19, 21-17; Kannan (Pdk) bt Niyaz (Mdu) 19-21, 21-16, 21-19; Shyam Sunder (Che) bt Veera Kutty (Mdu) 21-12, 21-7; S.S. Kannan (Mdu) bt Jeoffry (Cbe) 21-14, 22-20.

First round: Ayyappan bt P.M. Venkatesh (Pdk) 21-14, 21-17; R. Karthick bt Saravanan (Mdu) 21-14, 21-10; Surya Prakash bt Yanesh Murthy (Rmd) 21-14, 21-18; Prakash bt Rajasekar (Pdk) 21-19, 21-13; Jerfin bt Rajkumar (Che) 21-5, 21-3; Md. Zameer bt Tamil Mani (Pdk) 21-8, 21-14; Saravanakumar bt Krishnan (Mdu) 22-20, 21-13; N. Venkatesh bt Hamlin (KK) 21-11, 21-16; Bharat Arun bt Dinesh Singh (Rmd) 21-8, 21-3; Navin Prasad bt M. Saravanan (Mdu) 21-10, 21-12; Aravinth bt Leo (Rmd) 21-11, 21-13; Veerakutty bt Naveen (Che) 21-17, 21-18.

R. Dinesh bt Sreeshaath (Mdu) 21-8, 21-17; Yaswanth bt Savan Raj (Pdk) 21-6, 21-6; Kannan bt I. Saravanakumar 21-9, 21-9; Bharath bt Rajesh Kumar 21-18, 13-21-21-19; Jeoffrey bt Avinash (Che) 21-19, 11-21, 21-15; Niyaz bt Thangamohan (Tkd) 21-18, 19-21, 21-17; Deepak Narayanan bt Saravana Balaji (Mdu) 21-11, 21-13; Persis bt Shyni (KK) 21-12, 21-9.

Azaruddin excels

A goal scored by Mohamed Azaruddin helped Alagappa University College of Physical Education defeat Kaliswari Football Club, Kalanivasal 1-0 in the Sivagangai D.F.A. `A' division league at Karaikudi on Friday.

State-level football

Vikram College of Engineering will conduct a State-level inter-engineering college football tournament at the college ground, Enathi near Madurai on March 2 and 3.

Contact M.S. Vikram, joint secretary, Vikram College of Engineering, 7, Commanding officers second lane, West Masi Street, Madurai. PH: (+91) (452) 2345344, 2345354.

Killivalavan slots four

Killivalavan scored four goals as Tiruvarur blanked Nagapattinam 9-0 in a league tie of the SDAT Tiruchi regional-level hockey tournament here on Friday.

Sivachandiran (3) and Iyyappan (2) were the other scorers.

Other results:

Tiruchi 8 (Hussain 3, Irudayaraj 2, Saravanan, Gopi, Joel Paul) bt Pudukottai 0.

Tiruvarur 2 (Iyyappan, Killivalavan) bt Cuddalore 1 (Premnath).

Perambalur 10 bt Nagapattinam 0; Cuddalore 0 drew with Thanjavur 0.

Mathan nets winner

St. Joseph's College edged out Balu Memorial Football Club 1-0 in a Tiruchi District Football Association super division league tie here on Friday. P. Mathan Yoshwa scored the winner in the second half.

The results:

St. Joseph's College 1 (P. Mathan Yoshwa) bt Balu MFC 0.

Kancheepuram in command

Kancheepuram took control on the second day of the TNCA under-15 inter-district cricket final here.

The scores: Kancheepuram 403 in 143.1 overs (R. Aashish Kumar 63, R. Prasanna Narayanan 51, Chandrasekhar 50, A. Aarif 29, V. Ashok 70 not out, Kris Shrishak 56, R. Santosh Kumar four for 87, B. Aparajith three for 88) vs. Tiruvallur 149 for seven in 65 overs (B. Indrajith 65 not out, Balaji 34, Aditya four for 38).

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