Date:24/04/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/04/24/stories/2007042402521800.htm

Sport - Golf

BGC swamps KGF

BANGALORE: Bangalore Golf Club trounced Kolar Gold Fields Golf Club 16-2 in the inter-club matches played at the BGC course here over the weekend. BGC won 10-2 in singles and 6-0 in the doubles events.

The second team of Bangalore Golf Club beat KGF's second team 8-1.

The results (BGC players' names first): Doubles (played on Saturday): Team 1: K.N. Shanth Kumar & Prabath Jadhav bt Dr. Sampath Kumar & Venkat Krishna Reddy; K.R, Sheshadri & B.G. Mahesh Prasad bt M.N. Krishnamurthy & K. Sreedhar Murthy; Kiran Basappa & R. Sridhar bt N.B. Reddy & G. Sreedhar; Narasing Rao & Govind Srinivasan bt Jayachandra & R.S. Ranganath; R. Neranjen & Bhushan Byrangani bt Dr. C. Satyakumar & Syed Ariff; B Srinivas Murthy & N. Kannan bt Pillai & G. Khotnise).

Team 2: L. Jagadish & R. Vishwanath bt V.S. Krishnmurthy & G. Devaraj; P.G.K. Murthy & S.V. Bailey bt D. Venkatrathnam & Ram Subramaniam; D. Byrappa & T. Rudrappa bt Dr. Shankar & Vishwanath.

Singles (played on Sunday): Team 1: K. Shanth Kumar bt Dr. Sampath Kumar; Prabath Jadhav bt R.S. Ranganath; Bhushan Byrangani bt Dr. Satya Kumar; Narasing Rao bt Jayachandra; R. Neranjen bt Pillai; Govind Srinivasan bt Dhananajay Naidu; Kiran Basappa bt G. Sreedhar; B. Srinivasmurthy bt N.B. Reddy; R. Sreedhar lost to M.N. Krishnamurthy; N. Kannan drew with Syed Ariff; K.R. Sheshadri bt Sreedhar Murthy; B.G. Mahesh Prasad drew with Venkatkrishna Reddy.

Team 2: Jagadish bt Dr. Shankar; Vishwanath bt A. Vishwanathan; G.K. Murthy bt V.S. Krishnamurthy; V. Bailey bt G. Devaraj; Byrappa bt Dr. Venkatrathnam; Rudrappa lost to Ram Subramaniam.

Upset win for Apoorva

Apoorva Deshpande sprang the lone surprise on the first day of the KIMS-AITA Talent series tennis championship, knocking out the fifth-seeded Preethi Gokhale 8-5 in a best-of-15 game contest in the girls' under-14 singles at the Club courts here on Monday.

In another interesting tie, J. Amoolya prevailed over Shwetha Samuel 8-7 while S.G. Abhinaya defeated M.P. Varsha 8-5. The other fancied players to move up were S. Preethi Ujjani, Surya Suresh and Nupur Roy Chowdhry (Tamil Nadu).

In the State-ranking event for under-12 girls, Spoorthi Shivalingaiah, T. Dhruthi, J. Amoolya, Jane Jacob and Sai Haritha advanced to the second round.

The main draw qualifiers: Boys: Under-18: Asad Jaffer, Luv Soda (Mah), Ravi Abhiram (TN), Mukesh Kumar, Ajinkya Powar, S.Karan, Vasanth and Jodbhir Singh.

Under-14: Sumukh V. Karan, Subash Koushik, G. Preetham, Arun Rai, M. Preetham Chirag Mandal and Nikhil Reddy.

Biocon triumphs

Biocon won the Ventures Spikers Cup corporate volleyball tournament, which concluded at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium during the weekend.

In the final, Biocon defeated Wipro 25-16, 19-25, 24-26, 25-17, 15-10. Fidelity defeated Aricent 21-25, 25-15, 15-9 in the Plate Cup final.

MSRIT wins title

M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT) won the Dr. M.V. Jayaraman Memorial cricket tournament that concluded on Monday. In the final, MSRIT defeated RNSIT by nine runs.

The scores (final): MSRIT 189 in 40 overs (Tejas Wagle 71) bt RNSIT 180 in 39.2 overs (Nikhil Kashyap 75).

Thilak Memorial

posts win

Thilak Memorial defeated Universal 2-1 in a State `B' division football league match at the Football Stadium here on Monday. Karthik and Papanshil scored for the victor while Stephen netted Universal's lone goal.

Earlier, Thyagu's 16th minute strike helped BHEL EPD defeat Rail Wheel Factory 1-0.

Falcon BC loses

Bangalore Sporting defeated Falcon BC 29-7 in a State Youth Championship basketball tournament boys' section match at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium outdoor courts on Monday evening.

The results: Boys: Bangalore Sporting 29 (Avinash 8) bt Falcon BC 7; PPC 30 (Sharuk 9) bt YMMA 7; Southern Blues 23 (Jaysheel 10) bt Bhagawan Gulbarga 10; Bharath SU 28 (Adeendren 13) bt Creative Chitradurga 22.

Girls: Bangalore Sporting 27 (Sangeetha 8) bt VNS 10.

AITA Talent series

The Rotary Club of Mysore Midtown, in association with Nagaraj Tennis Centre, will be conducting the AITA Talent series tennis tourney for juniors (under-14 & under-16 boys and girls) at SJCE, Mysore, from April 30 to May 4.

The organisers will also conduct the Karnataka State Mini junior tennis tourney for under-10 & under-12 (boys & girls) on the same dates as above for which sign-in is compulsory on April 29 between 10 a.m. to 12 noon. For further details and registration contact. Mr. R. Nagaraj

State-level chess

United Karnataka Chess Association is organising a three-day State-level Open chess championship for women at the State Youth Centre, Nrupathunga Road, Bangalore from April 27.

The Karnataka team for the forthcoming National `B' chess tournament will be selected from this event, according to a press release here.

For details, contact R. Hanumanthu on 94485-05303.