Date:06/09/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/09/06/stories/2006090612682000.htm

Sport - Badminton

Abhimanyu, Aditya qualify

BANGALORE: Abhimanyu Singh of Madhya Pradesh and Aditya Elango of Tamil Nadu battled their way through to the main draw of the under-19 singles of the Union Bank all-India ranking badminton championship at KBA courts here on Tuesday.

Abhimanyu won a thriller against Vipul Saini of Chandigarh at 19-21, 21-12, 21-19 while Aditya rallied to beat Anil Kumar of Andhra Pradesh at 14-21, 21-18, 21-11 in the final qualifying round. Others to make the main draw were Sai Praneeth, Gurusai Dutt, Naveen Kumar (all from AP), Mandneep Singh (Railway), Oscar Bansal (Chandigarh) and Nihar Tilekar (Maharashtra).

The main draw gets underway on Wednesday.

The results (final qualifying round): Boys: U-19: Oscar Bansal (Chd) bt Vikas Grover (Har) 21-13, 25-23; Mandeep Singh (Rly) bt Amit Kshatriya (Mah) 21-15, 21-13; Aditya Elango (TN) K. Anil Kumar (AP) 14-21, 21-18, 21-11; Gurusai Dutt (AP) bt Saurabh Paralikar (Mah) 20-22, 21-13, 21-14; Nihar Tilekar (Mah) bt Anil Kumar Raju (AP) 21-13, 21-19; Sai Praneeth (AP) bt Prateek Khurana (Kar) 21-19, 21-15; Abhimanyu Singh (MP) bt Vipul Saini (Chd) 19-21, 21-12, 21-19; I.S. Naveen Kumar (AP) bt Ram C. Vijay (Ker) 21-18, 11-21, 21-18.

U-16: Pratul Joshi (MP) bt Sunjith (Ker) 21-6, 21-18; Nagendar (AP) bt Vishaldev Reddy (AP) 21-7, 21-16; M.R. Manikandan (TN) bt Prathap Menon 19-21, 21-19, 21-15; M.R. Shankar (Kar) bt M. Laxman (AP) 21-18, 21-18; A. Naresh (AP) bt Pradeep Kumar (AP) 17-21, 21-18, 21-19; Vishnu Prasad (Ker) bt Dhiraj Kumar Gautam (Mah) 21-19, 21-15; Sarang Lakhani (Mah) bt Trinankur Nag (WB) 21-16, 21-8; H.S. Prannoy (Ker) bt Sameer Verma (MP) 19-21, 21-12, 21-7.

U-13: Seetharamulu (AP) bt Aditya Joshi (MP) 21-16, 13-21, 21-19; Janak Wakankar (Mah) bt Upendra (AP) 21-17, 21-17; Pranav Satheesh (Ker) bt S. Chetan (Kar) 21-8, 21-11; Bharat Reddy (AP) bt Viswanath Kiran (Kar) 21-16, 21-18; S. Siddharth (Kar) bt Ravi Teja (AP) 17-21, 21-17, 21-16; B. Sriram (AP) bt S. Shyam (Ker) 21-16, 21-16; G. Gopi Raju (AP) bt Vijay Krishna (AP) 25-23, 16-21, 21-14; B. Venkatesh (AP) bt Sai Mithun (AP) 21-12, 21-14.

Girls: U-19: Aswathy Mary Mathew (TN) bt Pallavi Aggarwal (Har) 21-16, 15-21, 21-19; I.R.D. Shravani (AP) bt M. Sruthi (Ker) 21-18, 21-19; Sikky Reddy (AP) bt Swetha Kelkar (Mah) 21-19, 21-8; Yashica Poonacha (Kar) bt A. Malgaonkar (Mah) 21-18, 21-14.

U-16: Sheshadri Sanyal (WB) bt P. Lavanya (AP) 21-19, 21-18; Leela Lakshmi (AP) bt Uttara Prakash 21-10, 13-21, 21-18; M. Chandana (AP) bt Sanyogita Ghorpade (Mah) 21-19, 21-15; Megha Merin Ninan (Ker) bt Sheetal Mohandas (AP) 21-16, 21-16.

U-13: P. Nivya (AP) bt Anisha Karumbaiah (Kar) 21-16, 21-17; Samhita (AP) bt Boneetha Bose (Ker) 21-10, 21-14; Aishwarya Narayan Murthy (Mah) bt Kanthi Visalakshi (TN) 21-8, 21-15; Pramada (AP) bt Rohini Yadav (AP) 21-19, 21-09.

Christ College in semifinals

Christ College entered the semifinals of the basketball tournament in the SPIEL inter-collegiate sports meet here with a 55-30 victory over RNS Institute of Technology. G. Siddarth was the main scorer for Christ College with 16 points.

In football, St. Joseph's Evening College beat Garden City College 5-3 via tie-breaker after the full time ended in a 2-2 stalemate.

Herons posts 403

S. Vinodh's 105 and S. Prajwal's 104 helped Herons post 403 against Swastic Union (1) in a KSCA Group I first division league here recently. In reply, Swastic Union scored 240 for nine in 85 overs with Deepak Chougule scoring an 85 as the match ended in a draw.

The scores: Herons 403 in 93 overs (S. Vinodh 105, S. Prajwal 104, Gaurav Dhiman 57, K.N. Ramesh 73, Dhananjay four for 47, Himmath Singh Shekawat four for 87) drew with Swastic Union (1) 240 for nine in 85 overs (Deepak Chougule 85, S.N. Ameeth 49, S. Arvind four for 82).

Swastic Union (2) 311 in 101 overs (Ganesh Satish 75, Nikhil Haldipur 65, Moinuddin 52, K.P. Appanna four for 105) drew with Malleswaram Gymkhana 313 for five in 50.2 overs (Raju Bhatkal 96, V. Cheluvaraj 95).

Bangalore Occassionals 322 in 110 overs (M.K. Manjunath 89, Chetan Chakravarathy 72, Mohammed Aleem four for 84) drew with Wadiyar 158 for three in 60 overs (Harsha Tiptur 63 not out, Asgar Pasha 55).

Jawahars SC (1) 226 in 65.4 overs (B.V. Shashank 50, Rakshan Rai 49, G. Vinay four for 56) and 202 in 45.4 overs (K.C. Avinash 60, G. Vinay five for 56) drew with Bangalore Cricketers 203 in 66.1 overs (V.S. Pawar four for 39).

Social Cricketers 234 in 67.3 overs (Vijay Karthik 58, C. Raghavendra 43, Chetan William four for 39) and 80 in 29 overs drew with Jawans 137 in 47 overs (C.M. Gautam 70 not out, C. Raghavendra four for 42) and 80 for three in 26 overs.

Bangalore United 390 in 132.4 overs (K.L. Rahul 99, Stuart Binny 91, C. Raghu 75, Ashwath Aiyappa 43, Daniel Liao four for 42) drew with Friends Union 216 for four in 47 overs (B. Akhil 101 not out, Daniel Liao 66).