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Mohita, Gayatri enter title clash

NEW DELHI: Mohita Sahdev and Gayatri battled through to set up a title clash in the women's section of the Pramod Mahajan Memorial Delhi State badminton tournament at the Karnail Singh Stadium here on Saturday.

The results:

Women (semifinals): Mohita Sahdev bt Chitralekha 21-23, 21-18, 21-11; Gayatri bt Gauri Chopra 21-15, 15-21, 21-18.

Boys (quarterfinals): Under-19: Abhishek Ahlawat bt Bhuwan Sethi 22-20, 21-18; Abhinav Prakash bt Honey Khurana 21-13, 21-15; Sachin Rawat bt Nitin Mahiwal 21-19, 21-17; Gauranshu Chopra bt Gaurav Sharma 21-11, 21-12.

Under-16: Rishabh Talreja bt Gagan Sharma 21-13, 21-19; Jatin Ummat bt Divyansh Narang 24-22, 21-17; Deepak Talan bt Atul Chouhan 21-18, 21-19; Ashish Sharma bt Sarmukh Singh 17-21, 21-14, 21-16.

Under-13: Trinayan Lahkar bt Shubham 21-14, 21-12; Ashish Sachdeva bt Gaurav Deshwal 21-8, 21-12; Hridhyanshu bt Vaibhav Kotnala 21-18, 21-11; Abhilash Sharma bt Yash Nain 21-11, 23-21.

Under-10: Shikhar Aggarwal bt Tanishq Sachdeva 21-8, 21-9; Utkarsh bt Arjun Chopra 21-14, 21-15; Lakshaye Kapoor bt Siddharth Bhatia 21-15, 21-6; Rohan Kapoor bt Tarun Madan 21-5, 21-17.

Girls (semifinals):

Under-19: Chitralekha bt Meenakshi 21-12, 21-7; Mohita Sahdev bt Grishma 21-4, 21-5.

Under-16: Nidhi Tiwari bt Shradha 21-15, 21-16; Saloni Chopra bt Yamini Sharma 21-15, 21-16.

Under-13: Shambavi Bajaj bt Gazala 21-16, 21-17; Prateeksha bt Gauri Asija 23-21, 19-21, 21-18.

Under-10: Kanika Kanwal bt Shivika Nehra 21-17, 21-14; Noor bt Rageshree 21-18, 21-12.

Cavalry Red triumphs

A five-goal effort by Gerardo Mazzini proved inadequate as Cavalry Red beat Majaara 8-5 in the final of the Samaira Cup polo tournament at the Jaipur Polo ground here on Saturday.

Santiago de Estrada (4), Tunku Ismail Ibrahim (3) and Vishal Chauhan were the marksmen for Cavalry Red, that got off to a whirlwind start by scoring seven goals in the first two .

DDA Academy reigns

DDA Academy asserted its class as it outplayed Laxman Public School 5-0 after leading 4-0 at halftime in the final of the ONGC Golden Jubilee Cup Hind Kishore football tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium here on Saturday.

Gagan Chauhan scored the first and last goals while John Mao, Raghav Khurana and Kushagra Rastogi helped themselves to a goal each. Sanskriti School was awarded the fairplay trophy. The prizes were presented by the DSA president Subhash Chopra.

Sumit to lead North

Sumit Sharma of Punjab will lead a 15-member North Zone team in the Vijay Hazare Trophy under-19 one-day cricket tournament to be held in Mumbai in January 2007.

The team: Sumit Sharma (capt.), Sunny Sohal, Gaurav Chhabra, Sarabjeet Singh, Ishant Sharma, Amanpreet Singh, Virat Kohli, Pradeep Sangwan, Ian Dev Singh Chauhan, Nitin Saini, Sumit Kalia, Yogesh Nagar, Prem Prateek, Varun Sharma and Tejasvi Yadav.

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