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Mohun Bagan takes on HASC

Principal Correspondent

BANGALORE: Federation Cup champion Mohun Bagan will take the field on Saturday against local side Hindustan Aeronautics Sports Club (HASC) with its tails up, but with a sense of circumspection too, in the XIth National Football League encounter here at the Football Stadium.

The opening-round matches for both the teams, set for a 3.45 p.m. kick-off, will be a stocktaking encounter rather than a robust one in more ways than one.

HASC, the local league champion, gained entry into this edition of the NFL thanks to the inability of the Tata Football Academy (TFA) to field a team in the Elite Division.

TFA, the Second Division champion, at this same venue, expressed its inability and the third-placed HASC got a `nod' in.

HASC last played in the Premier league in the 2002-03 season.

Vinayaka triumphs

B.S. Vinayaka of Karnataka bagged the `Brahmaputra Shree' title in the all-India prize money best physique championship conducted by the Dibrugarh District Body Building Association at Dibrugarh on December 30. Vinayaka also claimed a winner's purse of Rs. 20,000.

SOS Trophy cricket

SOS Children's Village of India, along with Imtiaz Cricket Academy, will conduct SOS Corporate Cricket Trophy tournament at the St. John's Sports Complex on February 3 and 4. The tournament is an annual event aimed at creating awareness about children in SOS-India among corporate and support the expenses of needy children nurtured at the SOS Children's Village, Bangalore.

The tournament will involve 24 teams from Bangalore and they include Philips, Symphony, Easy process, Fidelity, Procsys, Dell, Reliance, Hotel Grand Ashok, Apple, PSI Data Systems, MASCOM, Birla Sun life Insurance and Hewlett Packard (HP).

The registration is open till January 10 and further details may be had from the organisers, ph: 22484002/ 22128422) and on e-mail: sosblr@vsnl.net

Corporate football

Roots will conduct a weekend corporate football tournament at the Koramanagala from January 27. Entries close on January 20 and further details may be had from Roots Sports (ph: 9341774023).

Akshay bats well

K. Akshay's 76 helped Presidency School RT Nagar score 196 against Frank Anthony Public School (FAPS) in a Himalaya Cup under-15 inter-school tournament semifinal that began here on Friday. At close, FAPS was 166 for seven in 52 overs.

The scores (semifinals):

Presidency School, RT Nagar 196 in 49.1 overs (K. Akshay 76, S. Abhijit four for 57, Karun Nair four for 75) vs FAPS 166 for seven in 52 overs (Abhijith 54); SJBHS 207 for seven in 55 overs (F. Omar 49, Ripunja Acharya 48) vs Bishop Cotton Boys' School 166 for six in 49 overs (S. Dabeet 64 n.o.).

Appanna rewarded

Karnataka's left-arm spinner K.P. Appanna, who will represent the India under-19 team to tour New Zealand and Malaysia, was gifted a cheque for Rs. 25,000 by the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA). The KSCA secretary Brijesh Patel handed over the cheque to Appanna in Bangalore on Friday.

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