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First win for STC (Kurnool)

BANGALORE: STC (Kurnool) snatched its first victory in three matches with a comfortable 2-0 verdict over STC (Calicut) in the South Zone SAI inter-Hostel football tournament for boys at the football Stadium, here on Friday.

Kurnool, which had lost to both Bangalore and Chennai earlier, raised its game a couple of notches to virtually outplay the fancied Calicut side.

Sai Karthik put Kurnool ahead slotting home off a penalty in the 22nd minute when a rival defender handled the ball inside the penalty box.

After the change of ends, Sk. Nissar Qureshi bulged the net off a Prabhu Kumar forward punt to put the issue beyond the reach of Calicut, for whom goalkeeper T.P. Rathnesh was simply superb and kept the final margin to just two goals.

Saturday’s is the final day of the round-robin league with Kurnool playing Kollam and Bangalore pitted against Chennai.

St. Joseph’s Boys HS will conduct its annual Fr. Eric Vaz Memorial hockey tournament for junior boys and the Centenary Shield hockey tournament for seniors from July 7 to 19 at the KSHA Stadium in Bangalore.

Host Bishop Cotton beat St. Joseph’s Boys High School by six wickets in the Cottonian Shield T20 cricket tournament in the under-14 section here on Friday.

The scores: St. Paul’s 118 for six (Ganesh 37, Shubhankar 31) lost to Cambridge HS 119 for nine (Venkatesh 47, Nishanth three for 14).

St. Joseph’s BHS 100 for six (Abhinav 52) lost to Bishop Cotton 101 for four (Kara 29).

St. John’s 137 for six (Elvis 56 n.o., Nicky 34) bt St. Germain’s 113 for eight (Nauman 28, Vikram five for 6).

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