Date:13/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/13/stories/2008111356642000.htm

Sport - Football

Care and Share, KCP in final

VIJAYAWADA: Care and Share Telugu Medium School blanked Bishop Grassi High School 4-0, while KCP Siddhartha Adarsh School beat Nalanda Vidya Niketan 3-0 to enter the final in the seniors’ segment of the Nalanda inter-school football tournament here on Wednesday.

In the juniors’ section, Care and Share blanked V.P. Siddhartha 4-0, while KCP Siddhartha Adarsh School outplayed Bishop Grassi 3-1 in the semifinals.

The results (semifinals): Seniors: Care and Share TMS 4 (Riyaz 2, Siva Naga Reddy 2) bt VP Siddhartha PS; KCP Siddhartha Adarsh 3 (Indrajit, Gunaraj, Manish) bt Nalanda.

Juniors: KCP Siddhartha Adarsh 3 (Roshan, Vivek, Mrinal) bt Bishop Grassi 1 (Chiranjeevi).

Pat for Lenin

City archery coach Cherukuri Lenin, a South Central Railway Vijayawada Division employee, attended the two-week-long level-3 coaching seminar held at Tizuana, Mexico early this month. Divisional Railway Manager Vashishta Johri congratulated Lenin for his achievement.

Hockey tournaments

Andhra Hockey Association will conduct the State mini (u-14) hockey championship at the Police grounds at Guntur from December 4 to 7, according to AHA secretary Niranjan Reddy here on Wednesday.

The tournament will be held in league-cum-knockout basis. The state team will be selected for the 21st D.N. Singh Babu sub-junior all India hockey championship to be held Lucknow from January 24 to February 2, 2009. Machilipatnam will host the Andhra (u-18) sub-junior hockey championship from December 13 to 16.

Satyavani to lead

B.V. Satyavani will skipper the Andhra Cricket Association’s senior women team for the South Zone one-day tournament to be held at Anantapur from November 21 to 28, according to ACA secretary V. Chamundeswaranath here on Wednesday.

The team: B.V. Satyavani, S. Ramadevi, S. Monika Sai, J. Rameswari, V. Sneha Deepthi, N. Geetha, N. Tulasi Rama Lakshmi, S. Lavanya, S. Umme Salma Banu, S. Samatha, P.K. Nellavathi, N. Radha, G. Neelima Devi, T. Shilpa Chandran, G. Divya.

Standbyes: J. Durga Bhavani, V. Keerthi, P. Radhika, P. Anitha, B. Yamini, D. Kalyani. Coach: S. Srinivasa Reddy, Manager: S. Anuradha.