MSU began the game with authority, and went ahead in the 16th minute thanks to the vision of Mizo midfielder Zothansanga, who spotted Vimalraj’s run down the right touchline and lofted the ball diagonally over the ASC defence. Meeting it in the box, Vimalraj slotted coolly across ASC keeper S. Kar, into the far corner.
MSU scored a breakaway goal six minutes into the second half, Abi Pappa Lial’s shot from the edge of the box taking a deflection off ASC defender Kiran to leave the keeper wrong-footed.
ASC pulled one back in the 66th, midfielder Shibu surprising MSU keeper Palmson with an instinctive volley from outside the box, after the ball had popped to him from a confused clearance.
MSU replied immediately, thanks to a burst of speed from Riju, who whistled past ASC defender Tudu and drilled the ball across the face of goal for strike partner Amoafo to tap in at the far post.
ASC’s second came in the 73rd minute, the ball scrambled past the goal-line in a goalmouth melee, with striker S. Das adjudged to have taken the final touch.
Bhaskar nets winner Arrows beat Southern Railway 1-0 in the St. Joseph’s-Chennai Football Association senior division league here on Thursday.
The only goal came in the eighth minute, when Stanley’s deflection off a Southern Railway defender was rammed home by K. Bhaskar.
Meanwhile, RBI beat DBYC (Basin Bridge) 4-1 in the first division league. Arunraj, Loganathan, Somu and Devanathan scored for RBI while Anand pumped in the lone goal for the losing side.
Jasper in semifinals Tamil Nadu’s Jasper defeated Anand Mohan of TN 6-0, 6-1, in the above 45 quarterfinals of the T.S. Santhanam memorial veterans’ National tennis tournament at the Mylapore Club. In another quarterfinal, M.P. Shankar of TN beat Delhi’s Nelord 6-2, 6-3.
Other results: Above 55 semifinals: C.R. Gangadharan (Del) bt P.K. Patnayak (Ori) 6-2, 6-0. Above 65 quarterfinals: Billal (Kar) bt Biswa Kumar (TN) 6-4, 6-4.
Good batting by Adithya Adithya Giridhar’s unbeaten 150 was instrumental in PSBB (K.K. Nagar) beating St. John’s (Mandaveli) by a huge margin in the Vidya Mandir-Sportstar under-14 cricket tournament on Wednesday.
The scores: Maharishi Vidya Mandir 111 for nine in 30 overs (Krishnan 38) lost to Vidya Mandir ‘A’, (Mylapore) 115 for one in 20.5 overs (K.S. Prahlad 62 n.o., Rohit Balaji 29 n.o.).
Vidya Mandir ‘B’ 57 in 22 overs lost to Chettinad Vidyashram 58 for no loss in 8.3 overs (C. Aqshay 26 n.o.).
St. Bede’s ‘A’ 179 for two in 30 overs (Mustafa Sorass 70, Arvind Raj 64) bt Hindu SSS 78 for seven in 30 overs.
Santhome 106 in 27.5 overs lost to PSBB (K.K. Nagar) 106 for three in 24.3 overs (Karthik Ganesh 44 n.o., R. Akash 33).
Wednesday’s scores: PSBB (T.P. Road) 122 for eight in 30 overs (R. Vishal 40, S.T. Natarajan three for 18) lost to Maharishi Vidya Mandir 123 for two in 24 overs (S. Krishnan 55 n.o., R. Kevin 31).
St. John’s (Besant Nagar) 121 for five in 30 overs (Weiballint 60 n.o.) lost to Chettinad Vidyashram 122 for four in 28.1 overs (Kaushik U. Ram 63).
St. Bede’s ‘B’ 88 in 29.3 overs (Kishore three for 12) lost to Hindu SSS 89 for five in 23.5 overs (Bala Vignesh 33 n.o.).
PSBB (K.K. Nagar) 322 for four in 30 overs (Adithya Giridhar 150 n.o., P. Akash 66, Aswath Mukunthan 34, Arunachalam three for 59) bt St. John’s (Mandaveli) 46 in 13.5 overs (Sriram three for one, Sai Prakash three for five).
Antares posts win Antares Publishing defeated Radio Mirchi by 41 runs in the Adclub-Sportstar Twenty20 cricket tournament, here on Tuesday.
The scores: Bates 149 for eight in 19 overs (Anand 34, Rajiv three for 20) bt Lowe Lintas 92 in 16.4 overs (Manoj three for 21); Antares Publishing 144 in 17.2 overs (Munir 37, Rajesh 29) bt Radio Mirchi 103 in 19.1 overs (Sriram 36, Lokesh three for 17); Interface Communication w/o Big 92.7 FM.
T. Nagar triumphs Balaji Ramanathan scored a century to help T. Nagar to a three-run win over MGC ‘A’ in the final of the Singaram Trophy cricket tournament here.
The scores: Final: T. Nagar 177 for three in 20 overs (Balaji Ramanathan 115) bt MGC ‘A’ 174 for seven in 20 overs (Asif Ali 64, M. Shivram 31).