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Dindigul blanks Pudukottai

TIRUCHI: Last year’s runner-up Dindigul downed Pudukottai 4-0 in a pre-quarterfinal encounter of the State youth football championship for the A.G. Subbaraman Trophy here on Sunday.

Exploiting a defensive lapse, Dindigul snatched the early lead through Sathish Kumar. Dindigul could have scored a couple of goals in the initial part of the first half, but its strikers had narrow misses.

Pudukottai players found it hard to penetrate the rival defence and barely made any attempts to score.

Minutes before the half time, Arockiya Anandaraj gave the finishing touch to a Raguram Kumar’s free kick to put his team 2-0 up. Dindigul kept the momentum going in the second half. Manikandan and Jaffer Sadiq struck a goal each to complete the tally.

The results:

Pre-quarterfinals: Dindigul 4 (Sathish Kumar, Arockiya Anandaraj, Manikandan, Jaffer Sadiq) bt Pudukottai 0; Coimbatore 1 (T. Vijay) bt Erode 0.

First round: Thanjavur 4 (M. Suresh 3, Suresh Kumar 1) bt Nagapattinam 0.

Vignesh took four for eight as Dindigul defeated Namakkal by six wickets in a quarterfinal fixture of the ICL Mahaveer Chand Memorial Trophy inter-district under-14 tournament at Tirunelveli on Sunday.

The scores (quarterfinals):

Madurai 138 for five in 25 overs (Ateek Fazal 71, Syed Ibrahim 31) lost to Coimbatore 139 for five in 24.1 overs (Abhinav 34).

Erode 86 for seven in 25 overs (Kasi Viswanathan three for 25) lost to Tiruvallur 88 for one in 19.2 overs (Vignesh 43 not out).

Namakkal 43 in 18.3 overs (Vignesh four for eight) lost to Dindigul 44 for four in 12.2 overs.

Perambalur 93 in 25 overs (Viswesh four for 12, Dixit Naidu three for 23) lost to Kancheepuram 94 for seven in 24.3 overs (Roop Prasad 30, Premkumar three for nine).

Anna University progressed, but host Madras fell as the quarterfinal phase was gone through on Sunday in the all India inter-University squash tournament held at the ICL academy here.

Anna defeated Punjab 3-0 with Vinayak, Prasanth and Kalimuthu providing far superior to their opponents.

Madras, on the other hand, was ousted by Pune, after a fight, at 3-1.

The results (Team, quarterfinals): Mumbai bt Calcutta 3-0 (Laxman Joshi bt Anuragh Shah 9-11, 11-4, 11-2; Cyrus Vakil bt Kabir Jaggi 11-4, 11-2,; Nitin Chauhan bt Kushal Puddar 11-5, 11-0).

Anna bt Punjab 3-0 (Vinayak bt rubik Sood 11-1, 11-4; Prasanth bt Abhilakshay 11-8, 11-9; Kalimuthu bt Abhay Sood 12-10, 11-6).

Pune bt Madras 3-1 (Abhimanyu bt Girish Sawlani 7-11, 11-4, 11-6; Nikhil Jain lost to Arnish Oberai 2-11, 9-11; Mann Karan Virsingh bt Vishal Agarwal 11-4, 11-3; Govil Tanmay gt M. Karthikeyan 11-5, 11-4).

Delhi bt LNIPE Gwalior 3-0 (Raghav Bhal bt Ashish Pandey 11-4, 11-1; Prateek Chalia bt Dinesh Choudhary 11-5, 11-5; Gunraj Singh bt Pradeep 11-6, 11-6)

Individual (quarterfinals): Laxman Joshi (Mumbai) bt Prateek Chalia (Del) 11-3, 11-3; Abhimanyu Pande (Pune) bt Prasanth (Anna) 11-7, 11-9; Raghav Bahl (Del) bt Vinayak Shetty (Anna) 9-11, 11-7, 11-8; Cyrus Vakil (Mum) bt Girish K. Sawlani (Madras) 12-10, 10-12, 11-1.

Kancheepuram entered the final in both the boys’ and girls’ sections of the State volleyball championship (senior) at Koradachery. Kancheepuram boys will meet Chennai in the final, while the girls take on host Tiruvarur.

The results (semifinals):

Boys: Chennai bt Salem 25-21, 25-19, 25-17; Kancheepuram bt Coimbatore 25-20, 20-25, 19-25, 25-21, 15-8.

Girls: Tiruvarur bt Coimbatore 24-26, 26-24, 23-25, 25-15, 15-10; Kancheepuram bt Chennai 25-18, 25-20, 21-25, 31-29.

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