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Prem Prakash is still the best

CHENNAI: S. Prem Prakash of Champions Billiards Academy (Coimbatore) won the TNBSA State-ranking billiards championship for the 16th successive time — and 17th overall — defeating compatriot R. Praveen Kumar in Tuesday’s final.

Prem Prakash raced to a 4-0 lead in the best-of-nine final, before Praveen reduced the deficit by two. But the experienced Prem Prakash sealed the contest with a break of 55 and retained the title.

The results:

Billiards: Final: S. Prem Prakash (CBA) bt R. Praveen Kumar (CBA) 150-125, 150-129, 151-41, 151-72, 17-151, 112-150, 150-81.

Sub-junior snooker: Sunny (SIAA) bt Shashank (TNBSA) 56-8, 42-22; Zubin (CBA) bt Ashiq (CBA) 54-42, 63-66, 46-52, 58-27, 63-52; Sunny (SIAA) bt Jagadeesh (SIAA) 50-13, 52-24, 62-9.

Senior snooker: Praveen Kumar (CBA) bt Mahesh (TNSC) 55-30, 46-22, 55-48; M.C. Manoj (MCC) bt Freddy (Towers) 8-83, 58-36, 45-28, 70-40; Dilip Kumar (TNBSA) bt Ashwin (Towers) 61-38, 51-68, 58-15, 61-7; Sunil Mathew (SVS) bt Sameer Shroff (TNBSA) 62-65, 49-57, 58-53, 53-7, 101-71.

Maheshwaran triumphs

P. Maheshwaran of SRM Engineering College won the Alpha Arts & Science College State-level inter-college, schools and senior’s chess championship organised by the Thiruvallur District Chess Association.

SRM claimed the overall championship for colleges.

Cash prize winners: P. Maheswaran; Ram S. Krishnan (BSNL); A. Arun (SRM Engg.); B. Sekar (CHPT HSS); S. Raguraman (TCS); J. Bavan Kumar (RPC).

Category prize winners: Boys: U-8: Anirudh Aiyangar (DAV); R. Hari Krishnan (Sethu Bhaskara). U-10: Daniel Raja (Don Bosco); S.V. Rohit Krishna (Vivekananda Vidalya). U-12: L. Barath (Velammal); S. Prasanna (Vivekananda Vidalaya). U-14: Karthikeyan Murali (Vivekananda Vidalaya); G. Jaswanth (Montford Academy).

Girls: U-8: C.M.N. Sunyuktha (Bethel Mat.); R. Vaishali (Velammal). U-10: C.R.Varsha (MNC Vivekananda Vidalaya); G. Rohini (GK Shetty Vivekananda).U-12: C.R. Aasha (Vivekananda Vidalaya); G. Aarthi (Vivekananda Vidalaya). U-14: B. Jeyassri (Anritha Vidalaya); Hemapriya (Vidyodaya Mat.).

Good show by SSNCE

SSNCE performed creditably in Sports Fest-08, the inter-collegiate competition organised by IIT-Madras, triumphing in basketball (men), badminton (women), chess (men and women), and table tennis (men). D.B. Jain College won the volleyball and hockey tournaments.

The results:

Basketball: Final: Men: SSNCE bt SKR Engg. College 58-54. Badminton: Final: Women: SSNCE bt IIT-Madras 3-1. Hockey: Gurunanak bt Vivekananda 16-0; D.B. Jain bt IIT Madras 6-1; Gurunanak bt IIT Madras 3-1; D.B. Jain bt Gurunanak 3-1.

Table tennis: Final: Men: SSNCE bt SRM Arts & Science 3-1.

Volleyball: YMCA bt KCG Engg. 3-0; D.B. Jain bt IIT Madras 3-0; IIT bt KCG 3-1; D.B. Jain bt KCG 3-0; YMCA bt IIT 3-0; D.B. Jain bt YMCA 3-2.

Inter-collegiate tournaments

The State-level inter-collegiate Shri Ishari Velan memorial rolling Trophy tournaments — in the men’s ball badminton, basketball and volleyball, and women’s ball badminton and volleyball — will take place at Vel’s Srinivasa College of Engineering & Technology, from October 8 to 10.

TT tournament

Over 40 schools and 300 children will participate in the two-day CBSE Cluster (State-level) table tennis tournament hosted by Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan SSS beginning October 9.

The competition will be held in the u-14, 16 and 19 categories.

The winners will qualify for the National-level tournament at Gurgaon in December.

Girls’ football

The CFA women’s wing will conduct an inter-school football tournament for girls in the under-14 and under-17 age categories from October 16. Entries close on Oct. 14.

Call the CFA’s women’s wing convenor P.M. Radhakrishnan at 94441-47734 / 25389399.

Rapid chess

Bloom Chess Academy will conduct an open children’s rapid tournament at Kavi Bharathi Vidyalaya, Thiruvottiyur, on October 11 and 12.

The entry accompanied by a fee of Rs. 50 may be sent to M.A. Velayudham, secretary, 19, Nellikaran Street, Thiruvottiyur, Chennai-19, by Oct. 9.

Call 25732268 for details.

Staff cricket

Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, will conduct the Dr. Sarat Chandra Memorial inter-collegiate staff cricket tournament from October 18 in Chennai.

Entries may be sent to physical director M. Nandagopalan (ph: 94449-47290).

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