With 124 points, St Joseph’s College of Engineering grabbed the overall championship in the Tamil Nadu Inter-Engineering Sports Championship. This was their eleventh successive triumph in the annual fixture.
They won the men’s section with 68 points and the women’s with 56 in the event held at Adhiyaman College of Engineering, Hosur, in which 139 engineering colleges competed for honours. Their men claimed titles in table tennis and kabaddi and came second in football, tennis, volleyball, ball badminton, chess and best physique competition. Weightlifting fetched them a bronze-medal, too. But the decisive factor was them emerging overall champions in athletics. Their women counterparts buckled titles in TT, chess and kabbadi and came second in tennis and volleyball and third in ball badminton and basketball.
Youth EDGE Venkat
Despite G Lokeshwaran’s unbeaten 120, Venkat Cricket Club fell short by three runs against Youth Centre Cricket Club in a TNCA fifth division ‘C’ group match.
Batting first, Youth Centre piled up a formidable 277 for 9 in 50 overs. Husain J Darbar scored 72 runs and cornerstoned the innings with useful contributions from Ali Asgar B Hamid (36), S Murtaza Haji (44) and R Navin Kumar (34 no). Lokeshwaran single-handedly kept Venkat Cricket Club in the game but he ran out of partners, and they were dismissed for 275 runs with two balls to spare.
Brief scores: V Division ‘C’: Youth Centre Cricket Club 278 for 9 in 50 overs (S Murtaza Haji 44, Husain J Darbar 72, K Gokula Krishnan 6/69) beat Venkat Cricket Club 275 in 49.4 overs (G Lokeshwaran 120 no, Y Yunus Laila 3/92); Gandhi Cricket Club 235 for 9 in 50 overs (A Arun Raja 81, Raj Singh Indoliya 4/65) bt IAF (Tambaram) 219 in 48.3 overs (R Kumar 40, G Srinivas Reddy 30, A Satish 3/68, S Gurunathan 4/47); ICI Sports and Recreation Club 170 in 37.5 overs (R Binny Paul 30, T Gowtham 41, V Prasath 7/75) lost to Amar Cricket Club 174 for 4 in 34.2 overs (V Prasath 50, R Amar Shetty 48); V Division ‘D’: Gandhi Nagar Starlets Cricket Club 134 in 32 overs (B Arun Kumar 38, N Elumalai 32, S Hariharan 5/57, T Siddhartha 4/24) lost to Grove Cricket Club 137 for 4 in 27.3 overs (P Senan 41).
Jithin sizzles
Riding on Jithin’s 88, MCC thrashed New College by six wickets in the Prof PV Ramana Inter-Collegiate Cricket Tournament at the ICL-Guru Nanak Ground in Velachery on Thursday.
Brief scores: AM Jain College 97 all out in 23.4 overs (PS Sivaramakrishnan 28, T Sirajuddin 3/14) lost to Pachaiyappa’s College 101 for 4 in 21.5 overs (A Vasudevan 25, D Govindaraj 32); New College 163 for 8 in 30 overs (T Mariappan 32, R Bala Sundar 32, Naveet 26, Thiagu 3/38) lost to MCC College 164 for 4 in 29.1 overs (Jithin 88 no, A Tamilarasan 51).
