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Sridhar, Poncha honoured by Jain Group

BANGALORE: The Beijing-bound Anup Sridhar and Rehan Poncha were honoured at a function by their Alma Mater, Shree Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College, here.

Chenraj Jain, Chairman, Jain Group of Institutions hailed the two youngsters and said that they have done the Jain Group proud by making it to the Olympics. He wished them all success at Beijing and presented both withcheques of Rs. 25,000 each.

Jain also promised to support their training programmes in future.

Both Poncha and Sridhar thanked Jain for his gesture and the fellow students at the Jain College for their support. They said they would do their best at the Olympics.

Big win for STC Bangalore

STC Bangalore swamped STC Secunderabad 9-3 to win the title in the Sports Authority of India South Zone inter-hostel hockey tournament here on Saturday.

Dominating the match from the word go, host Bangalore stroked in four goals in the first half and five in the second half to score an emphatic win.

Vineett Michael (3rd) opened the scoring for STC Bangalore and within a minute Nitin Thimmaiah sounded the boards. Deepak Bijwad (14th) scored off a penalty corner even as STC Secunderabad was reeling under the onslaught.

Durga Prasad (15th) brought some cheer for the visiting side in an otherwise depressing first half for Secunderabad.

The second half too was one sided as Deepak Bijwad (42nd) swept in his second penalty corner goal. Vineet Michael (45th) also scored off a penalty corner and Nilesh (47th) made it 7-1 for STC Bangalore.

Sandeep Raju (63rd) scored STC Secunderabad’s second goal but the home side was relentless in its pursuit of goals. Nitin Thimmaiah (64th) and HP Ramesh (69th) added two more goals to the winning tally while Sandeep Raju (70th) struck a last minute goal to reduce the margin of victory.

Manjunath bats well

S.P. Manjunath’s 82 helped KSCA President’s XI score 274 against Secretary’s XI in a Shafi Darashah Trophy cricket tournament match that commenced at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, here on Saturday.

At close, Secretary’s XI scored 13 for no loss in five overs.

The scores: KSCA President’s XI 274 in 82.5 overs (S.P. Manjunath 82, Udit Patel 56) vs. Secretary’s XI 13 for no loss in five overs; Combined City XI 166 for one in 46.3 overs (V. Cheluvaraj 87 n.o., C.B. Karthik 57 n.o.) vs. KSCA XI.

Easy for Vivek Nagar

Vivek Nagar chalked up a facile 44-20 victory over NAL Sports Club in the girls’ section of the State youth basketball championship at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium courts here on Saturday.

Neha (12 points) spearheaded Vivek Nagar’s challenge, while Anitha (10) played well for NAL. In two low-scoring ties, Ambedkar BC defeated YMMA 24-8 and Sports Hostel (Vidya Nagar) beat Mangalore BC 27-10.

The results: Girls: Vivek Nagar BC 44 (Neha 12, Sindhu 10) bt NAL 20 (Anitha 10); Sports Hostel (Vidya Nagar) 27 (Sushmitha 10, Navneetha 8) bt Mangalore BC 10; Ambedkar BC 24 bt YMMA 8.

Sandeep slams century

V.S. Sandeep’s 107 and Darshan’s four for 29 spell helped RL Jalappa School Kolar defeat Hymamshu Jyothi Kala Peetha by 32 runs in a B.T. Ramaiah Shield under-15 tournament match here recently.

The scores:

RL Jalappa School, Kolar 169 in 30 overs (V.S. Sandeep 107, Arjun five for 34) bt Hymamshu Jyothi Kala Peetha 137 in 26.4 overs (Darshan four for 29).

New Public School 114 in 22.5 overs lost to Vidyaniketan School 118 for three in 18.4 overs (S. Sananth Kumar 54 n.o.).

Clarence Public School 192 for three in 24 overs (V.S. Eshwar 60 n.o.) bt St. Aloysius Boy’s HS 105 in 22.4 overs.

RT Nagar Public School 128 in 25.4 overs lost to New Baldwin International School 129 for three in 15.3 overs.

Miranda HS 128 in 28.4 overs lost to KHS Adarsh HS 129 for seven in 27.1 overs (Rana Singh 61 n.o., Varun four for 30).

Bangalore HS 149 in 25 overs (Vivek five for 24) bt Innisfree House School 120 in 28.3 overs (S. Suhas four for 15).

VVS Sardar Patel HS 208 for four in 30 overs (Suny Natekar 66, Jayanth 45 n.o.) lost to Soundarya HS 210 for no loss in 24.4 overs (Krishna Prasad 85 n.o., Hardik Patel 75 n.o.).

Mount Senoria School 171 for nine in 30 overs (Hitesh Kumar 50) bt Daffodils English School 75 in 20.4 overs (Uday five for 26).

St. Patrick’s HS 85 in 19.4 overs lost to VET HS 86 for four in 14.4 overs.

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