JPR, Loyola register victory in basketball tourney

Puducherry, Jan 31 (UNI) JPR college and Loyola College, Chennai, along with St Joseph College, Tiruchirappalli registered convincing victories in the second round league matches of the All India Inter-collegiate basketball tournament here today.

JPR outplayed SSN College, Chennai 60-33, Loyola trounced Alameen College, Bangalore 55-40 and St Joseph prevailed over Pondicherry Engineering College 53-44.

In the girls event, Annamalai college, Chidambaram beat Stella Mary's, Chennai while Deivanai college, Villupuram trounced Nirmala college, Coimbatore.

Results: JPR-Chennai 60 (Umesh Krishna 20) beat SSN-Chennai 33 (R Praveen 12). Loyola-Chennai 55 (Parthiban 22) beat Alameen-Bangalore 40 (Sasikumar 13) St Joseph-Trichy 53 (Sridhar 10) bt Pondicherry Enginering college 44 (K Venkatesan 10), SRM-Chennai 54 (Janakiram Reddy 10) bt Rajiv Gandhi-Puducherry 27 (Zenith 10), PSG 83(Akilan 16) bt Adakkalamatha 71 (Senthil Kumar 24), MCC-Chennai 47 (Bhooviyarasan 14) bt Gurunanak-Chennai 39 (Stephen)20.

Girls: Annamalai-Chidambaram 47 (Chitra 15) bt Stella Mary's-Chennai 31 (Susan 12) and Deivanai-Villupuram 44 (Manjula 14) bt Nirmala-Coimbatore 38 (Sudha 11).

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