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Thumping win for Sethu Institute hoopsters

CHENNAI: Sethu Institute (Madurai) beat D.G. Vaishnav College (Chennai) 44-18 in the ongoing Bertram basketball tournament at Loyola College here on Tuesday.

The results (knock-out matches): Loyola Commerce bt T.S.N College 24-10; Loyola Yellows bt Loyola Hostel 67-28. Loyola Philosophy w/o I.C.F School; Sethu Institute (Madurai) bt D.G. Vaishnav College 44-18. Bishop Heber College (Trichy) bt Jesuit Scholastics 55-44; S.S.N. Engineering bt St. Joseph’s College (Trichy) 63-31; M.Ct.M. School bt Guru Nanak College 44-34.

Jaison in semifinals

P. Jaison Xavier of Ernakulam moved into the semifinals with a 21-2, 21-1 win over A. Vijeyanambiraj (Chennai) in the men’s singles event of the LIC Southern Zone badminton tournament here.

Other results (quarterfinals): Men: S. Poornachandran (Thanj) bt A.V. Anu (Ekm) 10-21, 21-16, 21-1; Rajesh Sekhar (Tvm) bt R. Swaminathan (Chen) 21-17, 21-13; V. Sriram (Chen) bt P. Iyyappan (Tirunel) 22-20, 21-8.

Women: Preetha George (Ekm) bt Rajeswari Baskaran (Chen) 21-1, 21-3; G. Sumathy (Sal) bt V. Meena (Tiruvel) 21-11, 21-10; Tharannum Parveen (Chen) bt Deepa Jose (Ekm) 21-4, 21-5; S. Usha (Mdu) bt Geetha Madhavan (Ekm) 21-5, 21-3.

TN aquatic teams

C.G. Gowtham and U. Aditi Malavika will captain the Tamil Nadu boys’ and girls’ squads respectively in the junior National aquatic championship to be held at Amritsar from August 31 to September 4.

The squads: Boys: Gr. I: C.G. Gowtham, K. Divakar, B. Vivek, D. Tamilarasan, S. Premnath, V. Antony, A.Md. Thabrezkhan, G. Harikrishna babu, K. Nandhakumar, Sajan Prakash, S.I. Asif Mustafa, N. Arvind; Gr II: Jayawant Vijayakumar, Aswinmanivannan, Allen James Tom, Tarun Murali, V. Vignesh, S. Shreyas, B. Satish, Sandeep Devasenapathy, V. Nioranjan, P. Sandeep.

Girls: Gr. I: U. Aditi Malavika, M.M. Venpa, A. Gulnaz Rawoof, B. Praveena Devi, C. Aishwarya, G. Saranya, S. Swetha Shri, P. Rashika, T. Archana. Gr II: R. Sushmitha, Hemanthika, M. Raghavi, S. Ashwathy Nair, Anusha Metha, S. Darshini, Anuta Mukherjee, C. Lawanya, V.K. Visali, Pavithra Rawat, S. Pavithra.

Coach: Saji Sebastian and Girish; Manager: M. Nainar Asari.

SRM triumphs

SRM won the S.K.P. Velayutham memorial State-level inter-collegiate women’s volleyball tournament held recently in Tiruchengode.

The results: Final: SRM bt P.K.R. College, Erode 25-10, 25-11. Semifinals: SRM bt Hindustan 17-25, 25-14, 25-14, 25-27, 15-9.

State gymnastics

The three-day State gymnastics championship for boys and girls will be held at Montford Matriculation School at Perungudi beginning August 29.

Events will be conducted in the following categories: artistic, aerobic, acrobatics, rhythmic, and tumbling. Over 500 gymnasts are expected to take part.

State-level chess

The N. Chandrasekaran memorial State-level chess tournament, organised by Sri Krishna Chess Academy, will held from September 6. Call O. S. Shankar (99629-05844) for details.

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