Soundarapandian netted the winner as American College, Madurai posted a 1-0 win over D.B. Jain College, Chennai in the quarterfinals of the 8th State level inter-collegiate hockey tournament for the Rev. Fr. C. Montaud, S.J. Rolling trophy at the Arul Anandar College here on Wednesday.
The results: Quarterfinals: St. Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai 4 (Naveen, Thangapandi, Subbiah, Nepolean) bt Arul Anandar College, Madurai 3 (Charan, Parthiban, Livi Suran) via tie-breaker (full time score 0-0); Loyola College, Chennai 4 (Joshuva, Vignesh, Tamilselven, Tamilarasan) bt Sourasthra College, Madurai 1 (Vijayakumar); St. Joseph’s College, Trichy 2 (Jeganathan, Raja ) bt SRM University, Chennai 0 via tie-breaker (full time score 0-0); American College, Madurai 1 (Soundarapandi) bt D.B. Jain College, Chennai 0.
SSN triumphs
At Hosur, SSN College of Engineering (Chennai) beat St. Joseph’s College of Engineering (Chennai) 2-1 to win the tennis title in the Tamil Nadu Inter-Engineering Sports (TIES 2013) for men at the Adhiyamaan College of Engineering courts on Wednesday.
The results: Ball badminton: Final: JJCET (Tiruchi) bt St. Joseph’s CE 29-26, 29-16. Third place: Agni CT (Chennai) bt PSNA CET (Dindigul) 7-29, 29-28, 29-28.
Hockey: Final: MAM CET (Tiruchi) bt PSN CET 2-0. Third place: Adhiyamaan CE (Hosur) bt Kongu EC (Perundurai) 4-2.
Tennis: Final: SSN (Chennai) bt St. Joseph’s CE (Chennai) 2-1. Third place: SREC (Coimbatore) bt Janson IT 2-0.
Easy for Breeks
Breeks AISS defeated Hebron School by nine wickets in the NDCA under-13 inter-school cricket tournament for the Selma Selai Gowder Memorial Rolling Trophy at Udhagamandalam on Wednesday.
The scores: Hebron 107 (P.H. Peace Choi 32, R. Harshath three for 12) lost to Breeks AISS 108 for one in 23.4 overs (R. Vignesh 34, R. Prasanth 31 not out).
Sankarnarayanan sizzles
At Virudhunagar, Sankarnarayanan blasted 88 off 44 balls to guide Friends CC (Sattur) to a five-wicket win over Glacier CC (Sivakasi) in the third division of the TNCA-VDCA league recently. In another first division match, Harris scalped five wickets as Sattur Town beat Sri Kaliswari College (Sivakasi) by two wickets.
The scores:I div: Sivakasi Town 170 in 43.4 overs (Koodalingam 35 n.o., Marichamy three for 27) lost to Tasmanian Tigers 171 for six in 38.1 overs (Sathiya 55, Paramasivam 29 n.o., Chelladurai three for 20).
Sri Kaliswari College 164 in 31.4 overs (P. Ganesan 43, G. Ganesan 33, Harris five for 28) lost to Sattur Town 165 for eight in 33.2 overs (Karthi 40, Purushothaman 26, Prabhu three for 24).
II div: Athikulam Red Rose (Srivilliputhur) 151 in 27 overs (Selva 47, Satheesh three for 28, Karuppasamythree for 12) bt Lightning Power 140 in 28 overs (Jegan 27, Karthik 25).
Shooters 107 in 22 overs (Prabhakaran three for 18) lost to SRNM College (Sattur) 112 for three in 16.3 overs (Shanmugam 36 n.o., Ganesh Babu 33 n.o.).
III div: Gladiators (Rajapalayam) 187 for eight in 25 overs (Jones 37, Sathish 33, Karthick 33) bt Australian Bulls 99 in 18 overs (Ganesh Kumar 31, Suresh three for 27).
Glacier CC 142 for nine in 30 overs (Arunachalam 33, Ramesh 32, Thivakar three for 29) lost to Friends CC (Sattur) 145 for five in 18.3 overs (Sankarnarayanan 88).
