CHENNAI: Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai defeated Indian Army, Pune 77-59 in the final of the 53rd All-India basketball tournament for PSG Trophy held at Coimbatore on Thursday.
Results: Final: IOB 77 (Pratham Singh 23, Aravind 16, Prasanna Venkatesh 15) bt Indian Army 59 (Issac 18, Jeethander 11). Third place: Punjab Police 95 (Ranbir Singh 23, Gurjinder Singh 21, Gurvinder Singh 18) by Vijaya Bank 72 (Anil 25, Roby Thomas 11, Rajesh Uppar 10).
Upendra scalps five
Upendra Reddy’s 5/7 helped Vel Tech University to beat Annai Violet College by 38 runs in the 7th Thiruvallur DCA-STAG intercollegiate T20 tournament.
Brief scores: Vel Tech University 118/7 in 15 ovs (V Murugesan 42) bt Annai Violet College 80 in 13.5 ovs (AP Yuvaraj 34; Upendra Reddy 5/7, G Saiesh 4/18). SKR Engineering College 55 in 14.4 ovs (Bharath Alwinraj 4/16) lost to Mar Gregorious College 58/1 in 9.1 ovs. Prathyusha Engineering College 48 in 14.2 ovs (S Karthikeyan 3/19, KS Velmurugan 4/10) lost to Vel Tech Multi Tech 49/9 in 18.1 ovs (S Ashwin Kumar 3/7, V Manoj Lal 3/1). Velammal Engineering College 87 in 20 ov (B Barath 4/10) lost to DRBCC Hindu College 89/5 in 14.3 ovs (S Dinesh Kumar 32 n.o, U Praveen Raj 4/15). RVS Padmavathy Engg & Tech 107 in 16.3 ovs (R Ramesh 3/19, R. Manikandan 3/8) bt Jaya Sakthi Engineering 31 in 7.2 ovs (A Prabath 5/9, R Ganesh 3/22).
MCC win
Madras Christian College beat Jeppiar Institute of Technology 78-61 in a super league basketball match of the Bertram memorial tournament. Results: Basketball: Super league: MCC 78 bt Jeppiar Institute of Technology 61; Loyola Whites 47 bt SRM University 29. Schools: Super League: Velammal matric school 70 bt St Peter’s HSS 59; AVM Rajeshwari 69 bt MCTM HSS 53.
Vels emerge champions
Vels University kabaddi team won the Buck memorial tournament on Thursday conducted by YMCA College of phyical Education.