Sport - Basketball

Sports Hostel advances

BATLAGUNDU, JAN. 13. Sports Hostel, Madurai, moved into the third round of the 27th Irulappan Servai memorial Trophy all-Tamil Nadu basketball tournament, defeating Prince Basketball Club, Tiruchi, 70-63 on Thursday.

The results (second round): Sports Hostel (Thangavelu 18, Anand 15, M. Prasanna 13) bt Prince BC 63 (Nataraj 32, Sasi 13); Stuff BC, Erode 42 (Arun Prasanth 24) bt MMBC, Madurai 33; Arooran BC, Tiruvarur 58 (Mankanda Ganesh 22, Vignesh 15) bt Young Men's BC, Dharapuram 52 (Prabakaran 20, Arul Prasanth 19).

Gold Star BC, Nilakottai 61 (Nagarajan 22, Venmani 11) bt MSPMHSS, Dindigul 45 (Madukannan 11); MMBC, Madurai 40 (Madhan Prabu 24) bt Thirumangalam BC 24 (Babulingam 11); Pattiveeranpatti BC 59 (Sundarapandi 15, Kannan 12) bt Gandhigram Rural Institute 43.<137>

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