BASKETBALL
Hindustan College wins KCG Verghese Basketball Memorial match
Hindustan Institute of Know-how and Science (Group A) received the lads’s title, whereas KPR, Coimbatore, clinched the ladies’s crown within the thirty fifth Dr Okay C G Verghese Memorial Inter-College Basketball Match held in Chennai.
The Directorate of Sports activities at Hindustan Institute of Know-how and Science performed the match for women and men on the Air Jordan Basketball Advanced, Bay Vary Campus. Held in reminiscence of the establishment’s founder chairman Dr Okay C G Verghese, the three-day occasion featured 20 groups, 12 within the males’s part and eight within the girls’s part.
Within the males’s competitors, St Joseph Bangalore Metropolis College completed runner-up, whereas SRM College secured third place. Hindustan Institute of Know-how and Science (Group B) completed fourth.
Within the girls’s part, Vels College completed runner-up, with College of Madras taking third place. Hindustan College completed fourth.
Prizes value Rs 2 lakh had been distributed in the course of the valedictory ceremony. In every class, the winner acquired Rs 30,000 together with trophies and medals, whereas the runner-up acquired Rs 20,000. The third- and fourth-placed groups acquired Rs 15,000 and Rs 10,000 respectively.
The ceremony was attended by chief visitor Renjini Peter of Southern Railway and former India worldwide Jayasankar Menon, together with vice chancellor Dr Vikas Misra and sports activities advisor Abraham Varghese.
-Group Sportstar
GOLF
DP World Gamers Championship: Gandas joins Shaurya at prime of leaderboard
Manu Gandas shot a six-under 64 within the third spherical to affix Shaurya Bhattacharya on the prime of the leaderboard of the DP World Gamers Championship on the par-70 Tollygunge Membership right here on Thursday.
Gandas (66, 69, 64), who was in a single day tied seventh, earned an eagle, 5 birdies and a bogey to complete 11-under 199.
Shaurya Bhattacharya (64, 62, 73) managed his two birdies in opposition to 5 bogeys.
Om Prakash Chouhan (69, 67, 64), Akshay Sharma (69, 67, 64) and Sanjeev Kumar (68, 65, 67) tied third with 200.
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Printed on Feb 19, 2026