Delhi beat SAI to bag girls handball crown

LUCKNOW:Last year’s runner-up Delhi defeated defending champions Sports Authority of India 22-18 to win the 35th National Sub-Junior Girls Handball Championship, at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium here on Wednesday.

With the two teams locked in 10-all at the break, a prediction about winner almost looked difficult. But after a change in the ends, Delhi girls first stretched their lead to 12-11, and then there was no looking back for them.

Harshit scored highest six goals, followed by Khushboo (4) and Asanga (3). Pooja struck five goals for SAI, whereas Beant, Manpreet and Tanu shared nine goals between them.

Himachal Pradesh and Haryana finished joint third, whereas hosts Uttar Pradesh stood a poor seventh, defeating Gujarat by 13-12.

NITIN EXCELS

Nitin Pal of the Guru Govind Singh Sports College staged a fine show at the Under-14 School National Athletics Championship, bagging a silver medal in long jump event with a jump of 6.60 metre. On Wednesday, Nitin was felicitated by college’s acting principal Vijay Kumar Gupta and his coach Shailendra Pratap Singh.

BIG VICTORY

ASCA Hostel notched up a facile 252-run win against Panthers Academy in a league match of the Under-14 Deepak Saxena Memorial Tournament here on Wednesday. In other match of the day, Diamond Cricket Academy beat Gujaral Cricket Academy by two wickets. BRIEF SCORES ASCAH 332/7 in 40 overs

(Arpit Goswami 92, Abhinav 67, Ayush Vijay Mishra 60, Manok Sonkar 45, Aniket 4/55, Yash Awasthi 3/69) beat Panthers Academy 80/7 in 24.1 overs (Yash Awasthi 32, Arman Malik 3/8, Monty Sonkar 2/7).

GCA 113/9 in 26.3 overs

(Rohti Patel 36, Hammad 32, Uday 3/18, RP Singh 2/14) lost to DCA 114/8 in 33 overs (Saksham Singh 29, Vivek Singh 2/32).

DISTRICT BASKETBALL

St Xavier’s scored a convincing 60-33 win against KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium team to win the District Basketball Tournament, at the Chowk Stadium here on Wednesday.

Playing true to their reputation, St Xavier’s cagers continued to dominate the rivals through the match.

Lanky Rudra ran like a welloiled machine and scored highest 40 points for the winners. Shivam scored 12 points for the losers.

Earlier in the semi-finals, KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium team beat hosts Chowk Stadium B by 51-26, wheras St Xavier’s outplayed Chowk Stadium A by 39-18.