Lucknow girls shine in school athletics
LUCKNOW: Hosts Lucknow girls dominated the opening day of the Regional Schools Athletics Championship, winning five gold medals, but the boys failed to even one gold medal, at the Chowk stadium here on Monday.
Nandini Yadav, Sheelu Yadav, Shikha Gupta, Avi Bhaskar and Anuja Tandon won gold medals for Lucknow in girls category, but in the boys section athletes from Lakhimpur, Hardoi, Unnao and Raebareily hogged the limelight.
EASY VICTORY Cricket Association Lucknow (CAL) scored a convincing 55-run win against DCA, Lakhimpur to make it to the next round of the Inter-District Under-16 Cricket Tournament, at the Sports Stadium in Unnao on Monday.
FOOTBALL TRIALS Trials to pick up Lucknow’s re gional under-16 football team will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, at the Chowk stadium here at 2.30 p. m. Players born on January 1, 2000 are eligible to participate. Interested must contact District Football Association’s secretary Kanahaiya Lal. Selected players will attend the final selection trials at the state level, scheduled to be held at Noida.
VOLLEYBALL TOURNEY The district sub-junior girls volleyball team will be selected on November 20, at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ stadium here at 9.00 a.m. Selected girls at the regional level would be participating in the state volleyball tournament to be held at Barabanki from November 21 to 24.
DIVYANSH SHINES Young Divyansh Srivastava appears to be a cool-headed paddler but he looks quite different when it comes to take on his rivals. In the 3rd UP State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament, which ended at Kanpur on Sunday, he showed that how much capable he is in outplaying even big guns of the state. He defeated top seeded Satyam Gupta 3-2 to win the cadet boys title in style. Coached by Yogendra Agarwal, at the Northern Railway centre here, Divyansh won by 6-11, 11-7, 9-11, 11-9 and 11-5. A student of class fifth at the Vishwanath Academy here, Divyansh could have completed his golden double, if he had no missed his chances despite having six points lead in the second game of the subjunior final against Parth Katiyar. Despite winning the first game, Divyansh lost to Katiyar 11-8, 11-13, 11-4, 8-11, 6-11.