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Haridhar wins title

HYDERABAD: Ten-year-old K. Haridhar Reddy of Hyderabad became the first golfer from the city to win the `D' category title in the South Zone sub-junior golf open championship at Udhagamandalam on Wednesday, according to information received here.

The fifth standard student of Hyderabad Public School (Begumpet) won with a score of 87 gross with 15-over on the first day and 93 with 23-over on the second day. Incidentally, this is the highest-ever score recorded in this category in the championship.

Camps inaugurated

The State Government has assured the sporting fraternity of its continued support to promote talent. This was stressed by Mohd. Shabbir Ali, Minister for Information & Public Relations, at the inauguration of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation summer camps at Victory Playground here.

The Minister stressed the importance of sports in the social reconstruction and reminded that it was imperative for sportspersons and coaches to make optimum use of the infrastructure available, and also the GHMC initiative, the biggest ever in the country.

Preetham in good touch

Preetham (141 not out) helped Airtel score an emphatic 190-run win over Godfrey Phillips in the Champions Trophy corporate cricket tournament here.

The scores:

Airtel 243 for three (Preetham 141 not out, Ramu 44) bt Godfrey Phillips 53; Apex 184 for five (Rajasekhar 76, Arun 41) bt ICICI Prulife 94 for nine; Wipro 163 for eight (Sunil 40) bt GMR 157 (Raju 44, Srikanth 43); Microsoft 146 for seven (Krishna 80 not out) bt Motorola 36; Apollo 89 lost to NMDC 90 for five; Deloitte 127 lost to GE 128 for four; IBM 112 (Vinod four for 23) lost to CA 116 for seven; Mentro Graphics 137 for seven (Ashish 51, Girish four for 21) bt Franklin Templeton 124 (Ashish six for 13); GE 165 for four (Mushtaq 85 not out) bt Aegis 156 for seven (Rohti 40 not out); Infor Global Solutions 166 for one (Prateek 73, Nirmal 50 not out) bt Godfrey Phillips 147 for nine (Mahesh five for 16); Deloitte 191 for eight (Surender 85, Vishwanath 42) bt Alliance 98 for eight; Wipro 157 for seven bt Intelligroup 72.

Umpiring classes

The HCA will organise classes for umpires at the Gymkhana from May 16 from 6 p.m. Interested may contact Ph: 98494 89651/ 92478 59976.

Brilliant Trophy chess

Andhra Pradesh Chess Association will organise the Brilliant Trophy children's tournament at ECIL on April 28. Entries close by 9.00 a.m. on April 28 and details can be had on Phone: 92473-99717 / 98665-19924.

Golf camp

Golf Association of Andhra Pradesh will organise a summer camp in the age group of eight to 18 at the Railway Golf Club (Iriset) from April 26 to May 13. Call G.J. Dawson (93912-00066) or S. Udayan (98490-96375) for details.

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