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Qualifiers spotted

Sohail Jairaj and Deepak turned in an impressive performance
Balaji won the junior snooker title

BANGALORE: The four qualifiers making the main round of the senior State-ranking snooker championship were identified.

At the KSBA hall here on Friday, Sohail Jairaj and Deepak turned in an impressive performance to put it across Satish and C. Ravindranath respectively to make the grade, along with Michael Rebello and Balaji Reddy. The championship resumes on Monday.

Meanwhile Balaji won the junior snooker title with an all-win record in the semifinal league.

Amit Bhushan finished second best while Mohd. Ali and Manju Kiran finished behind Amit in that order.

The results: Senior snooker (qualifying round): Deepak bt C. Ravindranath 3-58, 52-12, 56-3, 58-45, 65-26; Michael Rebello bt Rehman 65-48, 75-44, 34-62, 52-19, 37-55, 69-47; Balaji Reddy bt Kushal Agarwal 58-26, 61-63, 51-32, 81-14, 2-73, 91-20; Sohail Jairaj bt Satish 69-52, 77-29, 63-21, 54-35.

Junior snooker (semifinal league): Balaji Reddy bt Manju Kiran 72-20, 26-60, 72-37, 72-02, 98-42; Amit Bhushan bt Md.Ali 69-26, 64-16, 43-71, 11-52, 43-10, 58-51.

Ranking: 1. Balaji Reddy, 2. Amit Bhushan, 3. Md.Ali, 4. Manju Kiran.

Megha upsets Sweety

BANGALORE: Megha Gupta of Gujarat upset Statemate and top seed Sweety Patel in the girls’ section in the opening round of the National under-9 chess tournament here on Friday. The match lasted over 150 minutes.

In the boys’ section, the top-seeded Mahapatra Sidhant of Orissa was extended to 70 moves by Mayank Jain of Karnataka.

The results: Boys: Manohar Tirth lost to Diptayan Ghosh; Sidhant Mahapatra bt Mayank Jain; Mohit Akash lost to S Kumar; CH Mohineesh bt Mritunjay Abhijeet Bhanja; Naga Sampath lost to Akshay Bharadwaj; M. Satvik bt Naik Rishub Naresh; Naman Kumar Aggarwal lost to Hemanth Kumar; Shaikh Nubair Shah bt M.R Narayan; S.L. Narayanan bt Arjun Bharat; Sayan Majumdar bt Naren Swaminathan; Nihal Sood lost to Manu M; N. Krishna Teja bt Nikhil R. Umesh; N. Niranjan lost to Harikrishna mohanan; Adarsh Yeshwanth bt Nisar Bhalavat; Nishant Kumar lost to Harshal Shahi; Aswath P. Hari bt Omkar Pande; Owais Shaikh lost to T Raksith Rai; M. Jayesh bt P.G. Nayak; Parag Ravindra Patil drew with S. Athul Krishna; B. Kumaran bt Parth Bhatia; R. Parthasarthy bt Sohan Nag; Adithya Jagadish lost to Pavan Karande; Pavith Singh bt Aanav K Shah.

Girls: Sweety Patel lost to Megha Gupta; T.C. Meghana bt Shoumi Mukherjee; C.H. Meghana bt Meghana Upadhyaya; Mythili Ranjan lost to M. Mahalakshmi; G.K. Monisha bt Nandini TR; Neha Byali lost to U. Ashwini; Ivana Furtado bt Niharika Tapadia; Nikitha Byali lost to R. Abhirami; Aditi Shete lost to Nisha Iyer; A. Nithila drew with Aditi Saxena; Akhankya Kabi bt M. Oviyanila; Pooja Senapati bt R. Akshata; Andria D’Souza bt S. Poorvaja;Prachiti Garge lost to Ankita Dash; Ankita Kumari bt Prakruti A; Pratishta Prasad bt Ayushi Jaiswal; Rutuja bakshi lost to Preethi; Prerena Bharwadaj bt Balvida Suharita; Balvida Sahasriya lost to Priyanka Bharadwaj; T.R. Nandini lost to Pratima Bansi; Shriya Charu lost to Ritika Neogi.

Kajal is skipper

N.R. Kajal Sharma will lead Karnataka in the 30th junior National handball championship for under-19 girls, scheduled to be held in New Delhi from October 16.

The team: Kajal Sharma (capt.), Rashmi B. Raj, Surabhi S. Nadig, Harshini Veronica, Shilpa Yogesh, H. Deepa, M.M. Pallavi, R. Sowmya, Mrinalini, C. Rakshitha, C. Ranjitha, S. Spoorthi and S.K. Smitha. Officials: G.S. Girish Kumar (coach) and K.E. Raghavendra (Manager).

HASC posts win

HASC defeated NAL Colony 57-30 in a State ‘A’ division basketball league match at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium courts here on Friday.

The results: HASC 57 (Uma Shankar 26, Kevin 10) bt NAL Colony 30 (Siddharth 10); ASC 79 (Dharampal 12, Gautham 10, Nixon 10) bt Sports Hostel 39 (M.R. Varun 18, Jairaj 10).

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