Date:14/08/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/08/14/stories/2004081405181700.htm

Sport - Basketball

Indian Army in semifinals

COIMBATORE, AUG 13. The men from Indian Army, Delhi, gunned down the game plan of Vijaya Bank (Bangalore) 64-53 and entered the semifinal league of the 40th All-India basketball tournament for the PSG Trophy at the PSG Tech courts here on Friday. Jaswanth Singh (26 points) did the bulk of the scoring for the Delhi team.

ONGC, Dehra Dun, also booked their semi final berth defeating State Bank of India, Hyderabad, 82-60.

The results:

Vijaya Bank (Bangalore) 63 (G. Senthil 17) bt TNEB (Chennai) 22 Ragupathy 10. QF: ONGC (Dehra Dun) 82 (Sridhar 22) bt State Bank of Indian (Hyderabad) 60 (Hari Krishna Prasad 20). Indian Army (Delhi) 64 (Jaswant Singh 26) bt Vijaya Bank (Bangalore) 53 (Murali Mohan 17).

State-level: SRMVS `A' (Coimbatore) 67 (T. Lingeshwaran 29) bt Nadars Sundara Visalakshmi Vidyalaya HSS (Dindigul) 55 (J. Premkumar 22). Mani HSS (Coimbatore) 61 (Deepak 13) bt ICF HSS (Chennai) 33 (Seenu Sundar 16). Gokulanatha Hindu HSS (Salem) 56 (P.T. Raja 12) bt Rajalakshmi Mills HSS (Coimbatore) 20 (N. Raj Kannan 8). American College HSS (Madurai) 49 (R. Sudhakaran 11) bt SRMVS `B' 13 (M. Vijayapandi 10).