Date:22/02/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/02/22/stories/2006022207982000.htm

Sport - Basketball

ICF is champion

Salem: Integral Coach Factory (Chennai) defeated city-mate Southern Railway 71-51 in its final league outing and emerged champion of the first State-level basketball tournament for the M.S. Chockalingam Memorial Trophy here on Monday.

The results (round robin league): Writers Club (Chennai) 71 (Ram 21, Prem 18) bt Armed Police (Madurai) 70 (Robin 16, Chandra Mohan 14); Southern Railway (Chennai) 86 (Saravana Rajan 20) bt Armed Police 60 (Robin 16, Vigneshmurthy 10); ICF (Chennai) 86 (Sikander 23, Aswin 20) bt BSNL Chennai Telephones (Chennai) 66 (Saravanan 16, Raja 13); Southern Railway 65 (Saravana Rajan 31, Jayaprakash 10) bt Writers Club 60 (Karthick 18, Jeeva 11); ICF 85 (Tony Lissy 20, Boopalan 19) bt Armed Police 70 (Bharathi 29, Robin 12); ICF 71 bt Southern Railway 51.

Special awards: Best player: Bharathi (Armed Police, Madurai); Most valuable player: Boopalan (ICF, Chennai). — Sports Reporter