SAI (Chennai) claims title

Chennai: Sports Authority of India (Chennai) beat Indian Bank (Chennai) by two goals to one in the final of the Tamilnadu Electricity Board state level hockey tournament at Anna Stadium, Palayamkottai on Saturday.

Suresh Kumar scored the match winner, a minute before the final whistle for SAI.

Earlier, Sathyaraj gave the team the lead but it was neutralised by Philip Martin. All the three goals came in the second half.

Mr.R.Mathivanan, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, gave away the prizes in the presence of S.Sundararaman, Chief Engineer (Distribution) and S.Muthuramalingam, Superintending Engineer, Tirunelveli. B.Ramaswamy, Organising Secretary, proposed a vote of thanks.

Other results: semifinals: Indian Bank 8 ( V.Rajan 4,including a hat-trick, Natarajan 2, Nishanth 2) beat TNEB, Chennai 2 ( Dhilip Martin, Ashwin); SAI (Chennai) 4 ( Gnanavel, Manoj, Maria Stalin, Vinodh Kumar) beat Southern Railway 2 (Ganesh, Lakshman Karan)