American College HSS (Madurai) beat SAI Salem 79-53 to enter the semifinal league of the Mahendran memorial State-level schools basketball tournament on Thursday.
The results: Quarterfinals: American College HSS 79 (Aravind 24, Anuganth 12, Muthukumar 11) bt SAI Salem 53 (Ajith Kumar 12, Muinbek 10, Kavsigan 12); MCTCM (Chennai) 72 (Karthi 27, Kannan 16) bt National HSS, Mayiladuthurai 51 (Raghunath 17, Jayaraj 16); Sherwood Hall 60 ( Nikhil Pandian 22, Tarun Parandaman 14) bt St. Peter’s 59 (Imran 16).