Date:05/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/05/stories/2008050560842000.htm

Sport - Basketball

East Godavari and Hyderabad triumph

VIJAYAWADA: Host East Godavari defeated defending champion Hyderabad 58-26 in the boys’ final, while Hyderabad outplayed Kurnool 57-26 in the girls’ final of the AP State junior basketball championship concluded at District Sports Authority grounds at Kakinada, according to information reaching here on Sunday.

The results: Boys (final): East Godavari bt Hyderabad 58-26.

Semifinals: Hyderabad bt Karimnagar 28-10, East Godavari bt West Godavari 30-12, (quarterfinals): Karimnagar bt Warangal 28-10, West Godavari bt Chittoor 36-21, Krishna bt Anantapur 63-62, Guntur bt Vizag 39-21.

Girls (final): Hyderabad bt Kurnool 57-26.

Semifinals: Hyderabad bt East Godavari 54-29, Kurnool bt West Godavari 36-21, (quarterfinals): Hyderabad bt Chittoor 35-13, East Godavari bt Krishna 27-16, West Godavari bt Khammam 26-8, Kurnool bt Karimnagar 28-24.

Cricket camp

Siddhartha Silver Jubilee Cricket Academy is organising a summer coaching camp on the premises of V.P. Siddhartha Public School, from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 6.30 p.m., according to school principal Col C.V. Ramanaiah. NIS coach P.V. Bapi Raju is imparting the coaching. For details contact: 0866-2471678, 5530260.