RA Boys to meet Veracity Club in football league opener on Tuesday
RA Boys would be taking on Veracity Club in the opening encounter of the District Football League-2015, starting July 7, at the Chowk Stadium here under the auspices of the District Football Association at 4.00 p.m.
DFA secretary, Kanhaya Lal confirmed with the induction of two mores teams, including the 11 Gorkha Regimental Centre, the number of teams participating in the tournament goes upto 30. AVIJAI CHESS Young Sahil emerged victorious in the open category of the 32nd Avijai Active Chess Tournament, logging on full six points, at the Avijai Chess Academy here on Sunday. Ish Agarwal and Rajesh Verma both scored five points each, but better tie break score helped Ish to finish second, pushing Rajesh Verma to the third spot.
In the under-18 category, Sameer stood first with four points, Satwik Gupta finished second with 3.5 points, whereas VNS Satya Teja from AS Public College with three points had to satisfy with third position.
In the under-14 category, Aman Jiwani and Kshitij Singh both from RLB finished first and second, respectively, whereas Dhruv Kumar from Florence Nightingale Inter College with 2.5 points finished third on better tiebreak points after he locked his score with Devashish Bhuwan Joshi of St Francis’ College.
In under-12, Utkarsh Dixit from RLB (Sector 6), Vikas Nagar became champion with three points. Udbhav Awasthi, Saif Ali Khan and Aaditya Kumar Singh finished second, third and fourth, respectively. CAL NOTICE Cricket Association of Lucknow on Sunday announced that Awadh Premier Cup Cricket League is an illegal tournament and is not affiliated to the CAL. Its secretary, KM Khan informed that players registered with the CAL, if participate in the tournament, would be facing tough
action. VARSHA TROPHY Multi Activity Cricket Academy (MACA) notched up a facile 95-run win against Delhi XI to collect full points in the Carsh Trophy Cricket League, at the Chowk Stadium here on Sunday. In other match of the day, LCA Hostel defeated Manchester Club by 44 runs.
BRIEF SCORES
MACA 217 for 7 in 30 overs (Achinto Das 43, Pranay Goel 43, Manpreet Singh 34, Rishabh 2 for 21) beat Delhi XI 123 in 26.3 overs (Suraj Yadav 22, Aniket 18, Rishi Vardhan 4 for 21).
LCAH 177 in 28.4 overs (Shubham Verma 88, Anurag 5 for 25) beat Manchester Club 133 in 26.3 overs (Abhinav Kushwaya 34, Gulam 30, Aniket Mishra 29, Noman 2 for 7, Adarsh Mishra 2 for 25).