CHENNAI: Paras Gurbax Arya’s 4 for 67 and NA Chinmay’s 4 for 49 helped Karnataka bag a lead of 48 runs over Tamil Nadu in the drawn match of the Vijay Merchant Under-16 tournament.
Brief scores: Karnataka 304 and 79/3 in 45 ovs drew with TN 256 in 114.4 ovs (Manav Parakh 66, Adhithya Muralidharan 51, Paras Gurbax Arya 4/67, NA Chinmay 4/49). Points: KSCA 3 (10); TNCA 1 (8).
Winning start for Dilip
Dilip Kumar of RSPB got off to a winning start, defeating Vinod Shanmugam 4-2 (11-53, 30-29, 0-40, 43-10, 7-38, 10-35), in the 7th National 6 Red Snooker Championship held here.
Results: Dilip Kumar bt Vinod Shanmugan 4-2; MK Udaykumar bt Md Ali 4-0; SA Saleem bt Anilkumar 4-2; Damu Menon bt D Rohit Kumar 4-0; Vinayak Agarwal bt Sumit Saldurkar 4-2; Harish Gandhi bt Prajjwal Bisht 4-0; Kreish Gurbaxani bt Vinay Kothari 4-0; Vijay Nichani bt Prakash Agarwal 4-2; Pranit R bt Mohsin Acchava 4-2; R Loganathan bt V Susheel 4-0; Dhwaj Haria bt Naresh Kumar 4-0.
Jeppiaar bag title
Jeppiaar Engg, Chennai defeated SDAT Sports Hostel of Excellence 27-25, 25-22, 18-25, 23-25, 15-12 in the women’s final to bag the San Academy trophy at the 67th Senior state volleyball championship held in Egmore.
Results: women: final: Jeppiaar Engg, Chennai bt SDAT Sports Hostel of Excellence 27-25, 25-22,18-25, 23-25,15-12. Third Place: PKR, Gobi bt Dr. Sivanthi 25-19, 25-19.
Gaurav shines
N Gaurav’s 47 not out propelled SPA Influence NBA to a five-run win over Astro RYA Cosmo in the Ensol-Elite Super Sixes cricket tournament held at City Center.
Brief scores: Bhandari RCC Magnum 76/2 in 7 ovs (J Deepak 45) bt SPA Influence NBA 24/6 in 4.5 ovs; SPA Influence NBA 93/0 in 7 ovs (N Gaurav 47 no, Mohit Nahar 38 no.) bt Astro RYA Cosmo 88/2 in 7 ovs (R Rajender 36 no); Kesar Banquet RCC 71/6 in 6.5 ovs (J Sailesh 29) bt Bhandari RCC Magnum 65/3 in 7 ovs (K Kunal 33 no).
Districts I win
N Neelesh’s 4 for 24 enabled Districts I to bag a lead of 14 runs over City I in the TNCA round-robin Under-14 final played at MVR ‘A’ grounds. Districts I won on first innings lead.
Brief scores: Districts I 131 and 75/6 in 38 ovs (Kevin Graham Ignatius 3/16) drew with City I 114 in 61.1 ovs (Siddarth Prakash 36, T Shree Hari 3/33, B Neelesh 4/24).
TN suffers loss
Trisha Poojitha’s unbeaten 76 paved the way for Hyderabad to beat Tamil Nadu by seven wickets in the South Zone Under-16 girls one-day tournament played under 30 overs basis, held at Rajagiri college grounds, Kerala.
Brief scores: Tamil Nadu 126/7 in 30 ovs (C Shushanthika 55) lost to Hyderabad 127/3 in 22.3 ovs (Y Trisha Poojitha 76 no).