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Balaji shines in ICF’s win

CHENNAI: Balaji (18 points) shone in ICF’s 74-52 win over DLW in the men’s section in the all-India Railway basketball championship here on Friday.

The results:

Men: SECR 74 (Jagjeet Singh 12, Prakash Rao 11) bt CPT 67 (Robin Mondel 23, Soumitra 18); DLW 50 bt RB 30; Eastern 65 (Satyaprajanayak 21, Sunil 16) bt RB 40 (Rajinder 19); RDSO 65 (Santhosh K. Singh 24, Sunil Kumar Pal 11) bt Eastern 54 (Satyendra Singh 10, Wasim Ahmed 10); CPT 63 (Robin Mandal 22) bt Northern 55 (Satvinder 17); NFR 60 (Ramasre 14) bt NER 54 (Birender 19, Abhishek 12, B. Singh 12); ICF 74 (Balaji 18) bt DLW 52 (Amiteshy 10); RDSO 76 (S.K. Singh 20, S.K. Pal 26) bt SCR 42 (Islaudin 10); Southern 82 (Bernard 23, Navaneetan 25) bt NER 62; NWR 94 (Sandeep 14, Mangilal 14, Prabhakar 14) bt WCR 74 (Sahil jit 28, Kamal 20).

Women: Central 58 (Annu 18, Beena 16) bt Eastern 27; Central 75 (Indu 16) bt Western 59 (Geo 30); Southern 93 (Geetu Anna Jose 39, Meenalatha 17, Shyamala 16) bt SECR 75 (Anju Lakra 32, Seema 15).

AG Karnataka wins

AG Karnataka defeated AG Tamil Nadu 25-15, 22-25, 25-22, 25-21 to win the final of the Indian Audit and Accounts Department (South Zone) volleyball tournament here on Friday.

Both teams qualified for the inter-zonal competition to be held in Kolkata.

P. Suresh for Tami Nadu and Karnataka’s K. Gopala Krishna were the key performers.

K. Srinivasan, Accountant General (A&E), convenor of the tournament, gave away the prizes.

Shikkar sizzles

An unbeaten 67 off just 29 balls and eleven boundaries by Shikkar Hukku helped St. John’s (Besant Nagar) to an eight-wicket win over St. Michael’s Academy and a place in the final of the Godrej City schools -13 round robin league cricket tournament here recently.

The scores:

St. Michael’s 124 for seven in 30 overs (K. Mukundan 57, Weiballint three for 27) lost to St. John’s (B’ Nagar) 125 for two in 19.1 overs (Shikkar Huku 67 not out).

Habib in quarterfinals

Rafath Habib entered the quarterfinals of the Jhill Mill nine-ball pool tournament here on Friday.

The results:

Pre-quarterfinal: Rafath Habib (SRSA) bt Pradeep (SS) 5–2.

Earlier results: Santosh (CAU) bt Harish (CAU) 4-1; Vijaykumar (CAU) bt Arunesh (TNBSA) 4-0; Pradeep (SS) bt Vijaykumar (TNBSA) 4-2; Anand (Seafarers) bt Harish (TC) 4-1; Rafath Habib (SRSA) bt Santosh (CAU) 4-0; Pradeep (SS) bt Deepak (Seafarers) 4-0; Anand (Seafarers) bt Vishal (CAU) 4-3; Rafath Habib bt Vijaykumar (CAU) 4-0; Pradeep (SS) bt Anand (Seafarers) 4-2.

Cricket tournament

The Sacred Heart MHSS (Sholinganallur) is organising its 13th State-level under-15 cricket tournament for boys from December 3.

Players born on or after 1-9-1992 and studying in 10th standard and below are eligible to take part.

All matches up to the final are on 30-overs format and the final is a two-day affair.

The last date for entries is December 1.

For further details and entry forms contact Dr. Rex Abraham, correspondent, 14/10 1st EVR Street, Lakshmipuram, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai. Ph: 9444012725.

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