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Tuticorin regains title

Tuticorin: Host Tuticorin regained the title after a gap of 22 years, defeating Chennai 5-4 in the tie-breaker in the final of the 29th all-India Major Ports hockey tournament here on Saturday.

At the regulation time, the teams shared two goals. In the losing semifinalists match, Kolkata beat Mumbai 3-0.

The results: Final: Tuticorin 5 (Balamurugan 2, Sivasankar, Kalidas, Muthuselvam) bt Chennai 4 (Gopi, Nishanth, Shankar, Mahesh) via tie-breaker, regulation time 1-1. Losing semifinalists match: Kolkata 3 (Jag Devsingh 2, Sunil Singh) bt Mumbai 0.

Mohan scores four

At Ramanathapuram, four goals in a row by G. Mohan Kumar helped Sethu Institute of Technology (Kariapatti) defeat Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology (Pollachi) 4-1 to enter the hockey semifinals of the 26th TIES men’s games meet in Kilakarai on Saturday.

The results: Hockey: Quarterfinals: Sethu IT (Madurai) 4 (G. Mohan Kumar 4) bt Dr. Mahalingam CET (Pollachi) 1 (Balakrishnan); PSG CT (Coimbatore) 2 (Dhilipan Sonasundaram, M. Nagarajan) bt Bannariamman IT (Sathiyamangalam) 1 (Arun); St. Joseph’s CE (Chennai) 6 (S.M. Riaz Khader 2, R. Mathan, V. Raja, M. Karthikeyan, P. Santhosh Kumar) bt Karunaya University 0; Adiayamann EC (Hosur) 3 (S. Manikandan 2, K. Aravindan) bt Dr. Sivanthi Aditanar CE 0. Volleyball: Semifinals: Sathyabama University (Chennai) bt St. Joseph’s EC (Chennai) 25-18, 25-16; Panimalar EC (Chennai) bt SIT (Madurai) 25-20, 23-25, 26-24. Basketball: Semifinals: Jeppiaar EC (Chennai) bt SSN CE (Chennai) 67-52; SRM University (Chennai) bt SIT (Madurai) 56-49.

SAI advances

At Dindigul, Sports Authority of India (Myladudurai) moved into the third round of the 14th annual State-level Sax memorial basketball tournament for the G. Sundararajan Manivizha Trophy defeating Silver Jubilee Sports Club (Periakularm) 51-20 on Saturday.

The results: Second round: SAI (Myladudurai) 51 (Praveen Kumar 18, Naresh 12) bt Silver Jubilee BC (Periakulam) 20 (Rajkumar 14).

First round: Tex City (Karur) 72 (G. Raja 23, Senthil Kumar 18) bt MSP HSS (Dindigul) 55 (Jeganraj 17, Prabu 14); Silver Jubilee SC 61 (Rajkumar 26, Ramalutheran 20) bt Wings BC (Dindigul) 36 (Dinesh Babu 15); Pattiveerampatti BC 54 (Kannan 14, Ramesh Babu 11) bt Sivagangai BC 38 (Jeyakumar 16); SAI 64 (Praveen Kumar 20, Naresh 16) bt Udumalapetti BC 50 (Vijay Pandi 22, Chandur 16).

Top seed pair advances

At Karur, top seed Raghavan and Roy Mathew of Chennai defeated Nagaraj and Senthil of Dharmapuri 21-9, 21-9 to book a place in the quarterfinal of the State men’s doubles badminton tournament on Saturday.

The results: Pre-quarterfinals: Raghavan & Roy Mathew (Chennai) bt Nagaraj & Senthil (Dharmapuri) 21-9, 21-9; Mutharasu & Kandavel bt Ezhilarasan & Ethiyan 22-20, 23-21; Subramanian & Karthikeyan (Pudukottai) bt Dharma & Amir (Arakonam) 21-16, 17-21, 21-13; Habib & Venkatesh (Madurai) bt Ranjith & Anand (Karur) 21-18, 21-8; Sangameshwaran & Irudayaraj (Arakonam) bt Sathish & Sakthivel 21-14, 21-16; Gopinath & Varun Anand (Coimbatore) bt Srinivasan & Karthik (Namakkal) 22-20, 21-18; Thirumal & Yuvaraj bt Karthik & Nataraj (Karur) 21-17, 21-15.

Athavan FC posts win

At Tiruchi, Athavan FC edged SIT 1-0 in a Tiruchi DFA third division ‘B’ Zone football league fixture here on Saturday. Venkatesh was the scorer.

Other results: Second division: Immanuel FC 3 (Narayanamurthy, Anandaraj, Parthiban) bt HMC FC 0; Golden Arrows FC 1 (Shanawas) bt White Blues FC 0.

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