Hosts judokas win sub-junior titles
LUCKNOW: Hosts Uttar Pradesh judokas staged a fine performance to win the sub-junior titles in both blind and deaf on the penultimate day of the four-day 3rd National Judo Championship, at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium here on Sunday.
In the deaf category, UP won six gold, six silver and three bronze medals, whereas Haryana finished runners-up with two gold, four silver and five bronze medals. In the blind category, UP had three gold, five silver and four bronze medals, whereas Chhattisgarh stood second with two gold and three silver medals.
FITRNESS RUN Suleman Khan and Vijay Laxmi emerged victorious in the men and women’s sections, respectively of the fitness run, organised by the Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies-Noida here on Sunday. Over 300 runners in different age categories took part. Abdul and Rakesh Kumar Yadav finished second and third, respectively in the men’s section, whereas Sudha Pal and Sudha Yadav had the same honour in the women’s section. DUA CRICKET SPIS defeated MECC by 35 runs in the opening match of the PP Dua Memorial T-20 Cricket
Tournament, at the Christian PG Collage Ground here on Sunday. In other match of the day, Leaders Club defeated Dental Strikers by 10 wickets.
BRIEF SCORES
SIPS 136 in 19.5 overs (Zain 31, Pallav 18, Rahul Srivastava 3 for 37, Ram Prakash 2 for 19) beat MECC 101 in 18 overs (Rahul Kashayp 24, Ankur 22, Zain 3 for 24, Mohit 2 for 6).
Dental Strikers 75 in 18.5 overs (Manish 34, Karunesh 5 for 7, Vishal 2 for 13) lost to Leaders Club 79 for no loss in 10.3 overs (Manoj Singh 38,
Karunesh 34). CAL TRIUMPH Cricket Association Lucknow (CAL) notched up a thrilling five-run win against Northern Railway to win the 9 th Chowdhary Memorial Cricket Tournament at Barabanki on Sunday.
BRIEF SCORES
CAL XI 151 in 35 overs (Himanshu Asnora 75*, Rahul Rawat 24, Bharat Awasthi 5 for 28, Akhilesh Kushwaha 2 for 13) beat NR 146 in 38.4 overs (Anshul Kapoor 48, Alok Pandey 27, Himanshu Asnora 4 for 25, Vikas Singh 3 for 18).
SHAH CRICKET The 9th Kabir Shah Memorial State Media Premier Twenty20 Cricket League be gins on Monday, at t he KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium here. Hosts UP Sports Journalists Association, Allahabad News Reporters Club, Nagpur Media XI and Kashi Patrakar Sangh would be the four participating teams, who would be playing league matches against each other. Principal Secretary, sports, Anita Bhatnagar Jain would inaugurating the tournament at 10.00 a.m.