Sacred Heart, BSC register big wins in DFL
Sacred Heart and Boy’s Sports Company registered emphatic wins on the second day of District Football League, at the Chowk Stadium here on Thursday.
While Sacred Heart blanked out Avadh Club 3-0, Boy’s Sports Company (BSC) drubbed Aliganj Sporting 7-1. Sacred Heart’s win was scripted Vivek, Bhojraj and Harneder who all scored a goal each.
In BSC’s victory, Ashish and Rakesh scored a brace of goals each while Shivesh Bhatia, Bhanu and Swapan accounted for one goal each.
SCHOOL BASKETBALL
Hosts Lucknow embarked on their campaign in State School Basketball Championship on a winning note. While their under-19 team beat Kanpur 23-16, the under-14 side thrashed Allahabad 15-3.
RESULTS U-19 boy’s: Varanasi bt Basti 54-02, Gorakhpur bt Saharanpur 26-0, Meerut bt Chitrakoot 18-00, Aligarh bt Azamgarh 26-22, Moradabad bt Saharanpur 10-07, Meerut bt Basti 20-16, Lucknow bt Kanpur 23-16, Allahabad bt Agra 18-15, Varansi bt Chitrakoot 20-0, Faizabad bt Aligarh 13- 06, Faizabad bt Azamgarh 24-12, Basti bt Chitrakoot 10- 0, Meerut bt Bareilly24- 0, Agra bt Aligarh 17-07, Varansi bt Bareilly 42 -01, Bareilly bt Chitrakoot 10-0, Gorakhpur bt Moradabad 10-05.
U-14 boy’s: Gorakhpur bt Moradabad 29- 0, Lucknow bt Allahabad 15-3, Meerut bt Agra 10-05, Faizabad bt Aligarh 20-06, Gorakhpur bt Azamgarh 10-05, Faizabad bt Saharanpur 20-03, Moradabad bt Azamgarh 10-05, Agra bt Kanpur 12-06, Aligarh bt Saharanpur 14-02, Kanpur bt Meerut 10-05.
LEAGUE POSTPONED
In view of ongoing rainy season, Cricket Association of Lucknow on Thursday postponed remaining matches of Banarasi Das A Division League till further notice. The fresh schedule of matches would be announced next month.
ATYA PATYA TEAMS
Following players will represent the state in the 26th National Atya Patya Championship to be held in Jalgaon, Maharashtra from September 28 to 30.
TEAMS
Boy’s : Sachin Chaurasia, Atul Patel, Mohammed Rais, Mahendra Kumar Patel, Akhilesh Yadav, Dharmvir Prajapati, Vijay Kumar, Prabhat Shukla, Aneesh Pal, Avnish Pal, Rahul Maurya, Shubham Maisi, Sandeep Gautam. Coach: Mahendra Gupta. Manager: Pavan Kumar.
Girl’s: Rubi Kumari, Juhi Gupta, Jansi Sahu, Sushma Rawat, Preeti, Vaishali Singh, Khooshboo Singh, Deepika Gupta, Shikha Singh, Shilpa Rawat, Khooshboo Yadav, Aishwarya Yadav, Aishwarya Gupta. Coach: Yujin Pal. Manager: Gopal Mishra.
SP IN GRADE A
City-based scorer Shailendra Pratap Singh on Thursday made it to BCCI’s Grade A panel of scorers. Singh is the only scorer from Uttar Pradesh to achieve this feat.
Singh was elevated from Grade B to Grade A on the basis of his outstanding performance in the BCCI-conducted scorers’ held in Nagpur on August 16 and 17.
UPCA has now four scorers in BCCI panel with Ramji Tiwari (Kanpur), Akhilesh Tripathi (Allahabad) and Prashant Chaturvedi making it to Grade B.
During his l ong career, Shailendra has done scoring duty in nearly 100 domestic matches including Ranji trophy and Duleep trophy finals.
He has also been in charge of scoring duty in two Test and two ODI matches.