Moksh, Asif excel in district badminton

LUCKNOW : Moksh Sashwat and Asif stole the limelight in the Johnny District Badminton Tournament, bagging a golden double, at the Vinay Khand Stadium here on Monday.

Moksh won the men’s singles crown, defeating Srestha Verma 22-20, 21-17, before bagging the men’d doubles title with Rohit Lekhi. The duo defeated Abhishek Chauhan and Mukul Tewari 21-12, 25-23.

In the men’s singles (+45 yrs) final Asif defeated Anil Singh 21-14, 16-21, 21-16. Later teaming with Anand, he defeated Ajay

and RS Pawar 21-16, 21-17 in doubles final. OTHER RESULTS Girls singles u-13 (final):

Kavya Kushwaha bt Aditi 21-16, 21-15; Under-19 final: Skanda Pandey bt Abhipsa Mishra 21-18, 16-21, 21-16; Boys under-19 singles (final): Shrestha Verma bt Abhishek Yadav 21-18, 21-15;

Men’s singles (+35 yrs final):

Abhishek Chauhan bt Manoj Kumar 21-12, 21-12; Women’s singles (+40 yrs final): Pragya Pandey bt Seema Tewari 21-8, 21-15.

THRILLING VICTORY

Kriative Club notched up a thrilling eight-run win against Lucknow White in a D division cricket league here on Monday.

FINE BOWLING

Faisal Lari took 4/26 as Abhijeet Sinha Cricket Academy defeated Yorker Cricket Club by four wickets in a league match of the Indira Gandhi Cup Cricket Tournament, at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium here on Monday.

GOOD SHOW

Uttar Pradesh judokas representing India, staged a fine show and won five medals in the Commonwealth Judo Championships, held at Jaipur. The medal winners included, Vijay Yadav, Anupam Pal, Vishal Yadav, and Sohan Singh.

ATHLETICS MEET

The district under-14 and 16 athletics championship for boys/ girls will take place on November 14, at the Chowk Stadium here at 8.00 a.m. Interested must report to LDAA secretary, BR Varun at the venue.

SCHOOL T-T

The 4th 11Sports Inter-School Table Tennis State Championships begins at ITS College, Mohan Nagar in Ghaziabad on Tuesday. The four-day event will witness matches in different categories.