Chicago: Telugu Association of Greater Chicago (TAGC – First Telugu Association) organized Volleyball and throw ball tournament on October 8th, 2017 at Pelican Harbor Indoor Aquatic Park, 200 S Lindsey Ln, Bolingbrook, IL 60440 This sports event was sponsored by Indsoft Inc. & Hyderabad House, Schaumburg location. TAGC President proposed and the Board approved unanimously that tournament to be called as TAGC and Bobbili Madhava Reddy Memorial Volleyball and Throw ball tournament. Late Sri Madhava Reddy garu was past president and founding member of TAGC. The main objective of conducting this event is to motivate and encourage TAGC members and Telugu community to stay fit and to offer refreshment from routine lives as well as making new friends.

TAGC Board and sports team’s dedication and hard work made this event a Grand Success with record number of teams registered in TAGC history. The event was publicized well by utilizing all means of social media and communication. TAGC has conducted volleyball tournament for men in 3 categories and Throw ball for Women. Volleyball categories are Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced. We had about 24 Volleyball teams, 4 groups, 4 courts, 9 hours, 90 plus games and 280 participants with 200 guests. Each team played minimum 3 games in group level that includes quarter finals, semifinals and finals. Thanks for being with us through the end with all your sportive nature and smiles. It was like a festival of Volleyball with Spikes all over. The games were very tight and were feast to everybody who was watching the games.

Kudos to our volunteers who took care of monitoring the games, tracking the wins and losses, updating scores, making sure teams and referees for the next matches are available on time and what not !! This event was planned together and executed flawless with help of our BODs Praveen Vemulapalli, Saptagiri Sangem, Avinash Lattupalli, Vijay Bheeram, Anji kandimalla, Ramu Billakanti, Mamatha Lankala, Past president Pradeep Kandimalla, President elect Jyothi Chinatalapani and volunteers Sashi, Ramana Kalva, Rohit Akula, Santhosh Konduri and others volunteers

TAGC President Ramachandra R Ade along with entire sports committee team and sponsor Mr. Vinoz Chanumolu presented the trophies to following winners:

Throw Ball for Women:

Winners: Westmont Furious six

Runner: Rudra team

Advanced Volleyball for Men:

Winners:​ Volleyball Audicts
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Runner: Spartans

Intermediate Volleyball for Men:

Winners: Desi Boys -1

Runner:​Chicago Bulls​

Beginners Volleyball for Men:

Winners: ​X-Men-2​

Runner: Desi Boys -2

TAGC president Ramachandra R, Ade thanked sponsor Mr. Vinoz Chanumolu, Vasu Vallabhaneni and Management of Indsoft Inc. & Hyderabad House Schaumburg location, for their support in sponsoring and conducting 2017 Indoor Throw ball and Volleyball Tournament and facility management for their extended support during the games and all the volunteers, Referees, Line men, TAGC Board, Sports committee & team captains as well as all the team members

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Chicago July16,2017: Telugu Association of Greater Chicago (TAGC) organized Super 8 Cricket Tournament on July 15 & 16, 2017 at South Barrington cricket grounds, Barrington, IL. This sports event was sponsored by Verinon Inc. The main objective of conducting this event is to motivate and encourage TAGC members to stay fit and to offer refreshment from routine lives.

TAGC Board and sports team’s dedication and hard work made this event a Grand Success. Event was publicized well by utilizing all means of social media and communication. TAGC received enormous response from cricket lovers and had to close the registrations early.

Total 14 registered teams were approved by TAGC to participate in the tournament. These teams were divided into 4 groups and each group played the matches on a league basis so that each team got an opportunity to play 2 games. Each team consisted of a minimum of 8 players and went up to 12 players. Topper of each group entered into semifinals and semifinal round winners played the finals on Sunday. The total number of matches was 17 (4+4+3+3+2+1) played over 2 days. Each team get to play 8 overs to bat and each bowler got 2 overs. Sixes counted as 8 runs and each wide got 2 runs and an extra ball.

First game between Hyderabad Nawaabs Vs. Hit & run started at 8 AM. TAGC sports committee chair Sapthagiri Sangem took both captains to ground for toss, Hit & Run won toss and was elected to Bowl. All teams reported on time where all players of different age groups played very sportively, professionally, and with great commitment. Raging Tigers won first Semifinal against Strikers and Juggernauts worn second semifinals in super over against Schaumburg Sultans and Finally Juggernauts won the finals against raging tiger a ball left for the innings, all matches were exhilarating matches no one was able to predict who is going to win until the last ball of the match.

TAGC President Ramachandra R. Ade along with entire sports committee team and sponsor Mr. Raj Ginne presented the trophies to Juggernauts (Winners), Raging Tigers (Runners) , TAGC announced Shekar as most valuable player MVP/ Man of the Series, Naveen Ganne as best Batsman and Bhagat R Goli as the best Bowler

TAGC president Ramachandra R, Ade thanked Verinon Inc. President, Mr. Pradeep Mannemela, and Vice President & COO, Mr. Raj R Ginne, for their support in sponsoring and conducting this year’s Cricket Tournament and American Telangana Association team, TAGC Board, Sports committee chair Sangem Saptagiri & team and volunteers as well as all the team captains and their player.

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