Cambridge Convent boys emerge champs in school T-T
Lucknow’s Cambridge Convent School defeated JKG International School, Ghaziabad 3-1 to win the junior boys team title of the 11Even Sports State Inter-School Table Tennis Championship at Ghaziabad on Wednesday.
St Patricks School of Agra won the junior girls team title, brushing aside DPS, Indirapuram (Ghaziabad) 3-0. But in the senior girls category, DPS, Indirapuram (Ghaziabad) outplayed Lucknow’s Nayvuga Radiance School by 3-0 and in the boys category, radha Ballabh Inter College of Agra emerged victorious, defeating Allahabad’s Vashisth Vatsalaya Public School 3-0. POINTS SPLIT Favourites Sports Hostel and Sports College men split points in the Lucknow Hockey League-2016, playing a 1-1 draw, at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium here on Wednesday.
Captain OP Pal put Hostel ahead in the very seventh minute of play through a field goal from the left flank (1-0), but soon after a change in the ends, College restored parity through Brijesh in the 32nd minute. The two teams continued their attacks further, but failed to break the lock then and forced to split points.
In the women’s section, Madhyamik Vidyalaya (Cantt) outplayed Chowk Trainees by 3-0 after leading by 1-0 at the half time. Garima (21st), Sheela (39th) and Ruchika (44th) shared three goals between them. ATHLETICS TEAM District Athletics Association, Lucknow on Wednesday announced 45-member squad for the 50th UP State Championship, scheduled to be held on September 3 and 4, at the Sports College track here. The team include, Vipin Gupta, Zafarul, Rishu, Alok Singh, Jai Yadav, Nikhil, Anvay Mishra, Sanskar Singh, Deepak Singh, Vivek Singh, Kartik Singh, Ankur, Rajesh Kumar, Ganesh Yadav, Ayush Kumar, Raghvendra, Rishi Mishra, Rinku Rawat, Ashutosh Shukla, Akash Mishra, Dhanraj Khanna, Sameer, Nadeem, Akash Singh, Shivam, Siddhant Seth, Ajeet Singh, Priyanshu, Kalyanika, Apoorva Raghuvanshi, Sama, Suchita, Shipra, Pooja Kumari, Shubhi Pandey, Sonia Verma, Shikha Gupta, Nidhi Singh, Kajal Sharma, Deepanshi Singh, Shalini Rawat, Vibhi, Ankita Dinkar, Jahnavi Dwivedi and Shalini Singh. SCHOOL BASKETBALL St Fidelis boys scored a comprehensive 57-30 win in a league match of the Schools Basketball Tournament, at the Vidyatree Modern World College Ground here on Wednesday. DPS didn’t turn up in their match against hosts Vidyatree Modern World College, Spring Dale defeated LPS (LDA Branch) by 22-13 and LPS (LDA Branch) beat LPC (Rajajipuram) 39-22 in other matches of the day. APL TWENTY20 As many as eight top teams of Lucknow would be seen in action in the Awadh Premier League Twenty20 Cricket Tournament, starting October 1 here. Top two teams from two different pools would qualify for the semi-finals. Winners would be richer by Rs 35,000, whereas the runners-up would be getting Rs 15,000.