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Army Red spikers down VVR Club

HYDERABAD: Army Red scored a 25-18, 25-19, 23-25, 25-19 win over VVR Club in the A-Division volleyball league championship for Nalla Malla Reddy Engineering College Trophy at Amberpet Indoor Stadium here on Wednesday.

Other results: SAI (STC, Vizag) bt Hyderabad Postal 25-23, 25-14, 25-16; SBI bt APSRTC 25-10, 21-25, 25-20, 25-19.

S. Pavan Kumar defeated S. Ramesh 25-18, 25-18 in the final of the non-medallists category of the second Young Men’s Improvement Society State-ranking carrom tournament at YMIS here.

Other results: Men’s singles: Second round: Ahmed bt Md. Rafiq 25-4, 25-0; V. S. K. Naidu bt S. Keshava Rao 25-7, 25-20; M.A. Hakeem bt P. Mahesh Kumar 25-9, 25-0; L. Gopikrishna bt Ghouse 25-1, 25-13; L. Surya Prakash bt Gajender 25-5, 25-0; Muneer Ahmed bt P. S. Uday Kumar 25-4, 25-23; V. Anil Kumar bt Ibrahim 25-0, 25-4; Shahrukh Khan bt G. Ramesh Kumar 25-19, 25-10; Zubair Khan bt Md. Ibrahim 25-1, 25-8.

Men’s doubles: Quarterfinals: L. Surya Prakash & E. Ashok Kumar bt Martin Menezes & T.V. Srinivas 25-14, 22-25, 25-0; J. Narsing Rao & Benjamin bt S. Naveen & K. Srinivas 25-7, 19-25, 25-23; M. A. Hakeem & Shahrukh Khan bt V.S. K. Naidu & K. Kushal 25-12, 25-13; M. V. S. N. V. Prasad & G. Ramesh bt R. D. Dinesh Babu & V. Anil Kumar 25-5, 25-23.

S. Ramachandran of MRC was adjudged ‘best athlete’ in the ATNK & K Area athletics meet held at Sarvatra Stadium in Artillery Centre (Golconda) here. He won the 800 m, 1500m and the 3000m steeplechase events

Artillery Training Centre (Hyderabad) won the overall championship trophy.

Andhra Pradesh Chess Association will organise State championship-cum-selections for National ‘B’ from August 29 to 31 at Indira Bhavan in Nellore. Selected players will represent the State in the Nationals to be held in Goa from September 15 to 23.

For details, call 94409 44143.

Osmania University recorded a 53-32 win over Bhavan’s College, Sainikpuri, in the inaugural Talasani Sandeep Yadav memorial basketball invitation tournament at Nehrunagar Playground here.

The scores: Osmania University 53 (Kabir 14, Praveen 12) bt Bhavan’s College, Sainikpuri, 32 (Rajneesh 12, Krishna 12); YMCA, Hyd, 65 (Mark 19, Naresh 10) bt Holy Angels 52 (Jim 19, Jude 10).

Flytech Invaders recorded a 29-run win over Invincible XI in the Flytech Aviator’s T-20 cricket tournament here.

The scores: Flytech Invaders 140 for eight bt Invincible XI 111 for nine.

Hyderabad District Athletic Association will organise District athletic meet for boys and girls (under-16 and 14 years) at Osmania University on August 29.

Performances here will be the criterion to pick the District team for the National inter-district meet to be held in Haridwar in October this year.

For details, contact 9246529013 / 9989433671 / 9849048586.

Twenty-two teams will take part in the St. Bartolomea Capitanio and St. Vincenza Gerosa inter-school girls basketball tournament at Holy Family School from August 28.

Defending champion St. Pious (Ramnagar) and hosts Holy Family will be the strong contenders again in the event to be played on knock-out format.

Ms. Balwinder Kaur, international player from SCR, will inaugurate.

Boxers from the Sports Authority of India (STC, Saroornagar) put up a creditable performance winning two gold, two silver and two bronze in the Senior inter-District championship held in Vizag, according to K. Prabhakar, Administrator of the STC.

The medallists who were coached by Vijay Pratap Singh are: Gold: K. Santosh (Fly), G. Satish Kumar (Light); Silver: V. Santosh (Lt. welter) and K. Raghuveer (Lt. fly); Bronze: Md. Mazharuddin (Bantam) & P. Ishaq (Lt Heavy).

Kaushik’s team won the team-of-four duplicate event beating C.V. Rao’s team in the final of Andhra University Faculty Club bridge tournament. Neogi’s team won the progressive team-of-four event with Kaushik’s team as runner-up. Biharilal and P. Sudhakar claimed the masters pair event.

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