Sport - Sports : General

Loyola, MOP Vaishnav keep titles

Chennai: Defending champions Loyola and MOP Vaishnav retained the overall men’s and women’s championships on the final day of the AL Mudaliar athletic meet, here on Wednesday.

Loyola, who had begun the final day with a slender four-point lead over MCC, pulled ahead considerably to finish on 101 points, 26 ahead of second-placed MCC. MOP stretched its lead over Ethiraj to 85 points to total 128.

Loyola confirmed its 30th overall title in the 41st edition of the meet by winning the 4x100m relay, the penultimate event of the day.

Having done that, focus shifted to whether or not its 4x400m relay team — two of whose members had broken the 400m individual meet record on Tuesday — could set the meet record.

Loyola duly did so, slashing a whopping 10.7 seconds off the old record — set by Loyola in 2003-04, according to the officials — in clocking 3:19.5 seconds.

This despite a bit of a baton-juggle between second and third runners Blumen Rajansathya and S. Sarath Chandar, and fourth runner J. Premanand beginning his celebration immediately after receiving the baton.

Loyola’s B. Ezhilnilavan, who added the half-marathon gold to the 5,000m and 10,000m golds he had won on the first two days, won the men’s individual championship with 15 points.

Ethiraj’s D. Jothi, who won gold in the same three long-distance events apart from a 1500m bronze, took the women’s individual championship with 16 points.

The results:

Men: 200m: 1. J. Premanand (Loyola) 21.8s, 2. D. Sankara Narayanan (AM Jain) 22.0, 3. A. Prem Kumar (AM Jain) 22.2; 1,500m: 1. M. Jegan (AM Jain) 4:06.9, 2. Pradeep Kumar (MCC) 4:10.6, 3. G.R. Dhilipan (Loyola) 4:12.2; Half-marathon: 1. B. Ezhilnilavan (Loyola) 1:18:47.0, 2. Alagesan (MCC) 1:19:38.4, 3. N. Sathish Kumar (Loyola) 1:23:09.8; 110m hurdles: 1. T. Balamurugan (Loyola) 15.0, 2. K. Raj Kumar (MCC) 15.2, 3. Krish Bethoven (MCC) 15.5; High jump: 1. Krish Bethoven (MCC) 2.01m, 2. G. Kosalnath (Loyola) 1.93, 3. Praveen (Loyola) 1.90; Discus throw: 1. R. Ramadoss (Loyola) 42.41, 2. Santhosh Devadoss (Loyola) 39.62, 3. Ragu (MCC) 37.48; Decathlon: 1. V.J. Kudilarasan (MCC) 5873 points, 2. D. Vinoth (Loyola) 5394, 3. G. Kamaraj (Loyola) 4870; 4x100m relay: 1. Loyola 41.6s, 2. AM Jain 42.2, 3. MCC 42.6; 4x400m relay: 1. Loyola 3:19.5, 2. MCC 3:28.5, 3. AM Jain 3:31.2.

Women: 200m: 1. J. Nisha (MOP Vaishnav) 25.7, 2. K. Yogalakshmi (MOP) 26.4, 3. P. Kokila (Ethiraj) 28.0; 1,500m: 1. M. Selvi (MOP) 5:02.0, 2. J. Sofia (MOP) 5:19.2, 3. P. Jothi (Ethiraj) 5:24.0; Half-marathon: 1. P. Jothi (Ethiraj) 2:00:16.5, 2. P. Lavanya (MOP) 2:13:33.4; 3. D. Jayalakshmi (TS Narayanaswamy) 2:41:07.0; Long jump: 1. S. Radhika (MOP) 5.72, 2. S. Preethi (MOP) 5.44, 3. M. Alagammai (Ethiraj) 4.88; Heptathlon: 1. V. Hani (MOP) 3494 points, 2. S. Preethi (MOP) 3267, 3. S. Rama (JBAS) 2988; 4x100m relay: 1. MOP 49.6, 2. Ethiraj 52.3, 3. SDNB Vaishnav 57.5; 4x400m relay: 1. MOP 4:03.2, 2. Ethiraj 4:20.1, 3. SDNB 4:53.6.

Individual championship: Women: P. Jothi (Ethiraj) 16 points; Men: B. Ezhilnilavan (Loyola) 15.

Overall championship: Women: MOP Vaishnav 128 points; Men: Loyola 101.

March Past winners: Men: Vel’s College; Women: Ethiraj.

Goals rained as AGORC beat Kottur Full Moon 7-3 in the first division hockey league at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, here on Tuesday.

Jagajeevan and Jarad of AGORC scored a brace each.

The results: Income Tax RC bt Homely HC 3-0; AGORC bt Kottur Full Moon 7-3.

Vidya Pillai (TNBSA) scored a convincing 3-0 win over Yethindaraj (SVS) in a snooker match on Wednesday in the Cosmopolitan inter-club invitation tournament. Vidya won 54-10, 51-34, 61-54.

Other results: M. Rajendran (ASCA) bt R.S. Krishna (MCC) 44-28, 23-51, 50-46, 41-47, 73-46; Naveen (CBA) bt Mahesh (Cosmo) 28-51, 70-19, 64-28, 36-64, 49-16; Saravanan (TNBSA) bt Dilip (TNBSA) 78-63, 62-60, 61-52; Senthil (TNBSA) bt Vikram Jalan (MGC) 63-61, 26-63, 60-45, 48-16; Varun kumar (MCC) bt Sekar Rao (MRC) 39-50, 79-1, 52-31, 54-28; Sunil Mathews (SVS) bt Anand Bhatija (Cosmo) 70-45, 75-31; Neena (TNBSA) bt Manoj Chako (TC) 67-33, 45-54, 58-28, 60-29; Pranit (TNBSA) bt Chetan Naik (Presidency) 75-12, 56-30, 72-10; Kamaraj (SVS) bt Damu menon (Qshot) 70-18, 63-33, 47-63, 68-14; Nadeem Ahmed (TNBSA) bt Chirag Kriplani (Presidency) 81-65, 60-17.

M. Adithyan’s unbeaten half-century guided City to 106 for three on a rain-shortened first day of the under-14 cricket match against Combined Districts played here on Wednesday.

The scores: City XI 106 for three in 45.2 overs (M. Adithyan 57 batting) vs. Combined Districts XI.

Playing East-West, Sandeep Dang and Kumar won the weekly pairs event at the T. Nagar Social Club, here on Tuesday.

Chandramouli and P. Narayan Iyer won from the North-South direction.

The results:

East-West: 1. Sandeep Dang & Kumar; 2. S. Ganesan & C.R. Kumar; 3. K. Rajagopal & N. Anant.