Kerala beats Periyar

CHIDAMBARAM: Kerala defeated Periyar 7-1 in a third round encounter of the South Zone inter-university hockey tournament at Annamalai University here on Thursday.

Other results: Third round: Mangalore 1 bt Calicut 0; SRM 4 bt Andhra 1; Visveswariah 2 bt Acharya Nagarjuna 0. Second round:Venkateswara 1 bt Manonmaniam Sundaranar 0; Madurai Kamaraj 5 bt Pondicherry 1; Osmania 13 bt NIT 0.