The Hindu : Sport : Easy win for Jawahar Club

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Thursday, Feb 23, 2006

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Easy win for Jawahar Club

HYDERABAD: Jawahar Soccer Club scored a comfortable 3-0 win over Alwal Youth Club in the super league of the Ranga Reddy district league football championship at Valerian Grounds (Bolarum) here on Wednesday.

Winger Louis scored in the fifth minute. Even before the opponents could recover from the early setback, Jawahar Club made it 2-0 thanks to centre-half Nityanandan within six minutes. Just before the break, striker Sanjay, who scored a hat-trick on Tuesday, was in the scoring act to complete the tally for the winners.

In another match, Valluvarnagar defeated Kamala Nehru Nagar 2-1 after leading 2-0 at the break.

Shivakumar put V.V. Nagar ahead early in the first-half. And, to the dismay of the opponents, substitute Uday chipped in with a wonderful effort as he dribbled his way into the striking zone past a couple of closely marking defenders before unleashing a powerful right-footer into the corner of the net. Though Pavker, an African studying here, reduced the margin, it came too late to change the course of the match.

Artillery records easy win

Artillery Centre defeated AP South Zone 25-11, 25-15, 25-13 in the inaugural match of the Kasala Ramaswamy Memorial volleyball tournament at Audiahnagar playground here on Wednesday.

Captain Joy and Anil combined well for the winner, while Sai Mahesh and Kumar did well for the losing side.

Earlier, former Minister T.Srinivas Yadav inaugurated the event.

APTDC comes to

CPAI's rescue

The cash-starved organisers of the ONGC Cup International Grandmasters chess tournament commencing at the Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium here on March 25 got a big boost with Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation agreeing to be the associate sponsor and taking care of the accommodation of the players.

As part of the tourism promotion, a package is also on the anvil for the Grandmasters and International Masters.

According to Lanka Ravi, CEO of Chess Players Association of India (CPAI - AP), some of the big names who have already confirmed participation include Alexander Fominyh, Pavel Kotsur, Utut Adianto, Susanto, Zia-ur-Rehman, Niaz Murshed from abroad besides National champion Surya Sekhar Ganguly, Sandipan Chanda, Dibyendu Barua, Praveen Thipsay, R.B. Ramesh and Abhijit Kunte.

For the benefit of the chess lovers, a specially designed website www.ongccuphyd.in will be operative with immediate effect.

Narrow win for Deshaw

Deshaw scored a two-wicket win over Keane India in the Champions Trophy corporate cricket tournament organised by the Sports Un-Limited here.

The scores: Keane India 119 for six lost to Deshaw 120 for eight (Sohail 65 not out); Wipro 126 for six (Gopal 53) bt Cordys 114; Tata Indicom 137 for five (Karim 49) bt NMDC 128 (Venu four for 12); IBM 104 for seven (Shyam 54 not out) lost to World Info Tech 107 for two; Convergys 137 for nine (Puneet 40) bt Deshaw 48; Techpoint 101 (Joel four for 16) lost to World Info Tech 105 for eight; Wipro 196 for nine (Suresh 50) bt C31 Warriors 42; Motorola 30 (Siddarth five for 11) lost to Cordys 31; Oracle 107 for nine bt Keane India Ltd 37; NMDC 103 for nine bt ICICI 90 (Ashwin four for 15).

Satyajit in sole lead

M. Satyajit with five points emerged as sole leader at the end of fifth round on Wednesday in the State Oopen chess tournament being conducted by the Visakha Chess Academy in Visakhapatnam.

D. Lakshmana Rao and V. Somesh drew their game to be in joint second position with 4.5 points each.

M. Srinivasa Rao, Y. Kalyan Kumar, R. Bhavani Sankar, P. Srikanth and J.N. Raju were in the third position with four points each.

Badminton tournament

Over 60 teams from Andhra Pradesh are expected to participate in the 33rd AP college teachers' badminton tournament to be held at the Siddhartha Indoor Stadium in Vijayawada from Saturday.

The competitions will be held in men's doubles, women's doubles, veterans' doubles, super veterans' doubles and mixed doubles.

Badminton Association of India joint secretary K. Ch. Punnaiah Chowdary will be the guest of honour.

Boxing championship

The 38th inter-district junior boxing championship will be held at the Port Stadium in Visakhapatnam from March 2 to 5. Trials to select the Visakha district team for the championship will be held at the same venue from 8 a.m. on Feb. 24.

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