Nellai Nadar triumphs

: Nellai Nadar MHSS won the Friends inter-school cricket tournament defeating Pon Vidhyashram by 61 runs in the final. The awards for the best bowler, best batsman and best all-rounder went to Ruthvik of Pon Vidhyashram, Hari Raj of Loyola IS and Md. Saif Ullah of Nellai Nadar MHSS respectively. M. Madheswaran, K. Aprameyan and S. Bhavesh, all from Chettinadu Hari Sree Vidhyalayam, were named the most promising youngsters.

The scores : Nellai Nadar MHSS 159 for five in 20 overs (Bala Ganesh 30, Kishore 36, Md. Saif Ullah 33 n.o., Venkatesh three for 29, Ruthvik three for 10) bt Pon Vidhyashram 98 in 17.5 overs (Venkatesh 32, Kishore four for 18, Mano Bala three for 10).

MCC posts win

MCC edged out Gandhi Nagar 3-2 in the MCC-V.P. Thirumurthy memorial inter-club squash tournament. In another contest, Madras Race Club beat Cosmopolitan ‘B’ 3-2.

Other results: Markers tournament : Prasad (MCC) bt Siva (GNC) 3-0; Desappa (MRC) bt Ganesh (Cosmo) 3-0.

NSVV scores

American College HSS (Madurai) and NSVV (Pattiveeranpatti) won their matches in the semifinal league of the Mahrendran memorial State-level schools basketball on Friday.

The results: Semifinal league: American College (Madurai) 66 (Anuganth 17, Muthukumar 16, Aravind 14) bt M.Ct.M. 59 (Karthi 17, Madhusudan 14); NSVV (Pattiveeranpatti) 53 (Diwakwar 18, Vigneshwaran 14) bt Sherwood Hall 23 (Tarun 10, Nikhil 10); NSVV 70 (Jeevanandam 36, Sudan 12) bt M.Ct.M. 51 (Srinivasan 18, Karthi 13, Madhusudan 10).