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Poornachandra bags three golds

BANGALORE: Poornachandra of the host club BAC, claimed three golds in the Boys Group I of the State short course swimming championship at BAC pool here on Saturday.

Poornachandra won the 100 m and 200 m back stroke, beside sthe 50 m butterfly race to take his overall tally in the past two days to five.

The results (winners only): Boys: Group I: 200 m freestyle: Aaron D’Souza (BAC) 2:01.79. 200m breaststroke: Aditya Roshan (KCR). 2:37.63. 200m backstroke: Poornachandra (BAC) 2:27.94. 50m butterfly: Poornachandra. 29.65. 200m butterfly: Aaron D’Souza .2:10.67. 50m breaststroke: Aditya Roshan 33.46. 100m backstroke: Poornachandra. 1:05.06.

Group II: 400m individual medley: Nitin Prabhakar (KCR). 5:23.55. 100m breaststroke: L Akash Rohit (KCR). 1:15.34. 200m butterfly: Dhritiman Roy (BAC) 2 :3.592. 50m freestyle: Akash (BAC). 27.36. 400 m freestyle: Akshay Krishna (KCR).4:36.49. 50m backstroke: Nitin Prabakar .32.62.

Group III: 200m freestyle: Akhilesh Ram (BAC). 2:37.51. 50m freestyle: L. Shreyas (BAC).28.82. 100m breaststroke: Vipul (MDSA). 1:26.68. 50m breaststroke: Santosh (PMSC). 43.74. 4x25 medley relay: BAC ‘A’. 1:03.0.

Group IV: 50m freestyle: Vishwas Anil (KCR). 33.73. 25m freestyle: Vishwas Anil 15.45.

Girls: Group I: 200m freestyle: Pooja R. Alva (BAC). 2:17.06. 200m breaststroke: Madhuri Giri (BAC). 3:07. 91. 200m breaststroke: Sameeksha Alva (BAC). 2:32.48. 50m butterfly: B. Neeraja (BAC). 31.84. 200m butterfly: Pooja R. Alva. 2:18.40. 50m breaststroke: Madhuri Giri.39.95. 100m backstroke: Madhavi Giri. 1:10.91.

Group II: 40m individual medley: M. Pravailka (BAC). 5:42.36. 100m breaststroke: B. Nisha (BAC). 1:25.43. 200m butterfly: Arhatha Magavi (BAC). 2:47.89. 50m freestyle: B. Nsichala(BAC). 31.10. 400m freestyle: Srilakshmi Gorur (KCR). 4:51.60. 50m backstroke: Sidhura (BAC). 38.15. 200m individual medley: Nischala. 2:43.69.

Group III: 200m freestyle: Mena (KCR). 2:46.83. 50m freestyle: Sneha (BAC).30.38. 100m breaststroke: Bhoomi R. Motwani (BAC). 1:23.74. 4x25 medley realy: BAC ‘A’. 1:05.27.

Group IV: 50m breaststroke: Prajwala (KCR). 43.60. 50m freestyle: Medha (DSC). 33.15. 25m freestyle: Medha.15.49.

Big win for Postal

Taranath’s brace (25th and 41st minutes) helped Postal defeat Coorg Blues 4-1 in a State ‘A’ division hockey league match at the KSHA Stadium here on Saturday evening.

Adarsh Ganapathy and Jijed also scored for the victors while K.K. Poonacha scored the lone goal for Coorg Blues.

Other results: DBHA 3 (Ponnappa, Sherif and Hari Gobind) bt BEL 0; ITI 3 (Vinobha 2, Aiyyappa) bt Flying HC 2 (Dharmendra 2).

Chance for youngsters

The spotlight will be on the young brigade in the Canara Bank all-India senior badminton championship when the main rounds gets underway from Sunday.

Some of the big guns of the Indian badminton, including National champion Chetan Anand, Anup Sridhar, Arvind Bhat and the women’s ace, Saina Nehwal, are not in the fray as they are expected to play in the Olympic qualifying tournaments abroad.

But their absence should spur the younger lot to prove their mettle and earn places in the Indian squads for the Thomas Cup and Uber Cup competitions in February 2008 and also for the European circuit tour in March.

Pick of the lot

Youngsters Anand Pawar, Kashyap, Ajay Jayaram and Jishnu Sanyal in the men’s singles, Aditi Mutatkar, Ruth Misha, Sayali Gokhale, Gayatri Vartak in women’s singles are the pick of the young lot.

Kashyap and Anand Pawar are the top two seeds in the men’s singles.

Aditi Mutatkar (India No. 2) and Gayatri Vartak, who did well in the Scottish and Welsh Open internationals respectively, are expected to pose a threat to seasoned campaigners like Trupti Murgunde and Meenakshi. They had a stint under British coach Tom John.

Anand, Aditi and Gayatri were sent to Europe under Tata Padukone Badminton Academy’s over seas exchange programme.

The seedings: Men’s singles: 1. Kashyap (AP), 2. Anand Pawar (AI), 3. Ravinder Singh (UP), 4. Sachin Ratti (Rly), 5. Ajay Jayaram (Mah), 6. Utsav Misra (AI), 7. Tanishk (AP), 8. Vidhyadhar (AP).

Women’s singles: 1.Trupti Murgnde (PSPB), 2. Aditi Mutatkar (Mah), 3. Aparna Balan (Ker), 4. Dhanya Nair (Rly).

Men’s doubles: Sanave Thomas (Ker)-Rupesh Kumar (PSPB), 2. Jose George-Jaseel Ismail ( Ker).

Women’s doubles: Aparna Balan (Ker)-Jyotsna (AP), 2. Deepthi Shalini-Deepthi Priyadarshini (AP).

The following players qualified for the main draw after the completion qualifying rounds:

Men’s Singles: Shyam Sundar (TN) , Prakash Jolly (Kar), Arun Vishnu (Kar), Abhijeet Datta (Asm), Joy. T. Antony (Ker), Dodeja (Kar), Himanshu Kharbanda (Del), Jayen James (Rly). Antony.K. Jacob (Ker), Kannan. (TN) , Dileep.T.Jacob (Ker), Sanjeeth (Kar),Suresh. Ch (AP) ,Sunil Verma.(Kar) Joseph Sumi (Nag), and Dhruv Kumar (Kar).

Women’s Singles: Jacqueline Kunnath (Kar), Mudra Dahinje (Mah), Tanmoyee Nandy (WB) and Anjali Kalita (Asm).

Bhavani bags three golds

Bhavani, a staff nurse at Government Lady Goshen Hospital has bagged three gold medals in swimming competition in the State-level Government employees sports meet held at Dharwad from December 1 to 3.

Bhavani, representing Dakshina Kannada district who bagged the individual championship with her swimming efforts, also went on to win the gold medal in discus throw.

Easy for Rotary EMHS

Rotary English Medium High School defeated KPES HS by 129 runs in the KSCA under-17 inter-school cricket league matches of the Dharwad Zone at Hubli on Saturday.

The scores: Rotary EMHS 202 in 36.2 overs (Ramchandra Hegde 46, Imran Yargatti three for 27) bt KPES HS 73 in 20 overs (Suraj Paltankar three for nine, Vivek Savalgi three for 15).

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