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SAI footballers keep ASC at bay

BANGALORE: Sports Authority of India (SAI) defended doggedly and in the process managed to keep the marauding ASC at bay for a goalless draw in a super division football league match at the Football Stadium here on Wednesday.

ASC, the ‘A’ division champion, promoted to the elite league, seems to be out of depth at this level.

After having lost to BEL (1-2) and MEG (0-4), much was expected of the Army outfit against a young SAI outfit.

Unable to breach

But sadly, despite seeing more of the ball, ASC could not breach the last line of the rival defence.

Dada Farid Khan, under the SAI citadel, was not exactly confidence personified, but he did manage to thwart a couple of attempts.

Santosh Kumar fired the first salvo for ASC in the fourth minute, but the ball deflected out off the far upright, with Dada Farid rooted in the middle. Later, Raju Biswas headed wide a cross from Choudhary.

For SAI, wing-back Madhukara did strive in vain with overlapping runs down the left flank, but he got little support upfront.

With this draw, ASC opened its account after three outings, while SAI has five points from four matches (one win and two draws).

Kiran scored a hat-trick in Nationals thumping 9-0 win over HMT in an ‘A’ division encounter.

Kiran scored in the 47th, 48th and 59th minutes, while Rajeev Verma (12th, 22nd), Robin D’Souza (45th), S. Dhruv Kumar (67th, 73rd) and Om Prakash (79th) got the other goals for the winner.

Nationals has won both its matches thus far, while this was the opening fixture for HMT.

State under-11 chess championship

The State under-11 chess championship for boys and girls will be held at the State Youth Centre (Bangalore) from September 21 to 23.

Interested players from Dakshina Kannada District should contact the Secretary, South Kanara District Chess Association (SKDCA) at 98459 48625 before September 14.

Entries will be routed only through SKDCA, according to a press release here.

Ankita in last eight

Ankita Ashok entered both the women’s and girls’ under-19 singles quarterfinals of the ECA State ranking badminton championship at the club courts here on Wednesday. In both the events, Ankita defeated Juhi Hegde.

The results: Pre-quarterfinals: Girls: U-19 singles: Jacqueline Kunnath bt K. Sonal More 21-7, 21-10; V. Ruth Misha bt Keerthana 21-0, 21-5; Uttara Prakash bt Kavyashree 21-6,21-9; Ankita Ashok bt Juhi Hegde 21-7, 21-8.

Women’s singles: Ankita Ashok bt Juhi Hegde 21-10, 21-10.

ASC enters Tier I

It was a day of drawn matches in the Synergy Super Division league hockey tournament at the KSHA Stadium here on Wednesday.

Army Service Corps drew 3-3 with Sports Authority of India but managed to squeak into the Tier I phase of the tournament with a total of 11 points.

Hingocha Singh (55th), Sanjay Tete (62nd) and K.P Deepu (64th) scored for ASC while Prithvi (12th) scored off a penalty corner and Harish Ponappa (46th and 61st) scored a brace for SAI.

Fortis and Army Green XI played out a 2-2 draw with Sanwar Ali (24th) and Mayur Subbaiah (40th, off a penalty corner) scoring for Fortis while Armugam (57th) off a penalty stroke and Bunty Singh (63rd) found the target for Army Green.

In the first match Indian Air Force (New Delhi) and Madras Engineering Group were involved a 1-1 draw.

Manoj Kanojia (37th) scored for IAF while C.K. Uthappa (58th) scored the equaliser off a penalty corner.

Thursday’s fixture between Fortis and HAL will decide the other two qualifiers from Tier II into the next phase.

Chang, Balakrishna take honours

Anthony Chang and S.K. Balakrishna claimed the men’s singles titles in the 40+ and 50+ sections respectively in the State ranking veterans’ table tennis tournament here .

The results (all finals):

Men: 40+ singles: Anthony Chang bt V.R. Krishnamurthy 12-10, 11-8, 11-8.

50+ singles: S.K. Balakrishna bt R. Prasad 13-11, 6-11, 8-11, 11-8, 12-10.

Doubles: V.R. Krishnamurthy & Bona Thomas John bt Udayshankar & S.K. Balakrishna 11-6, 11-8, 11-8.

Women’s singles: Rekha Chandavaskar bt Lathika Poosailingam 8-11, 11-7, 11-7, 14-12.

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