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Rohit Havaldar hauls it in

BANGALORE: Rohit Havaldar of SBM Jain College walked away with the richest purse of Rs. 1,67,500 as Bangalore University honoured its achievers who did the University proud in the all-India South-West Zone inter-university meets for the year 2008-09.

The award winners:

Swimming: Rohit Havaldar (SBMJC) Rs.1,67,500; Tejaswini V (UVCE) Rs.1,14,500; Shikha Tandon (SBMJC) Rs.1,12,000; Prerna S Jain (MCC) Rs.34,500; Chandini K (BHS First Grade) Rs.12,000.

Badminton: Sowmya Padhye (SBMJC) Rs.4000; Monisha Vinayak (SBMJC) Rs.4000; Adfa Taqui (MCC) Rs.4000; Amali Amarasingh (AIMS) Rs.4000; Hita Prakash (SBMJC) Rs.4000.

Fencing: N. Lohith (SBMJC) Rs.7,500; N. Lakshmi (UVCE) Rs.18,000; Kusuma Singh (Baldwin) Rs.3000; Geetha N (Seshadripuram) Rs.1,500; N. Bindu (MCC) Rs.1500.

Boxing: R.G. Manjunath (Surana) Rs.5000.

Archery: Manoj Kumar (Govt. Artsd ) Rs.25,000; B.M. Vandhana (BMSC WOmens) Rs.12,500.

Tennis: Akshitha Basavaraj (MLC CW) Rs.3,500; Asha Nandakumar (SBMJC) Rs.3500; Aleshya Uttappa (ST. Joseph’s Comm.) Rs.3500; Sunitha N (Baldwin) Rs.3500.

Yogesh in final

Top-seed Yogesh Shah of Gujarat defeated Andhra Pradesh’s Chinni Sudhakar 7-5, 6-1 in a Raju Vegesna AISTA All-India senior tennis championship’s above-45 years singles semifinals here on Thursday.

The results (semifinals):

Above-45: Yogesh Shah bt Chinni Sudhakar 7-5, 6-1; S. Narendranath bt R. Nagaraj 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (4).

Above-55: S. Settu bt K. Radhakrishna Murthy 7-5, 6-2; Rammohan Rao bt D. Gururaj 6-3, 7-5.

Above-65: S. Parekh bt Y.D. Vijay Kumar 6-0, 6-0; T. Sreedhar bt M. Krishnaswamy 7-6 (2), 6-2.

Thrilling win

Ambedkar Sports Club snatched a thrilling 50-49 win over Nationals (Mysore) to enter the boys’ quarterfinals of the State Youth basketball championship here on Thursday. Ambedkar trailed 15-17 at the halfway stage.

The results:

Boys (quarterfinals): DRDO 36 (Akshay 13, Yatindranath 10) bt Vivekananda BC (Mandya) 18 (Mahesh 9); Vijayanagar (Hospet) 48 (Zaheer 19, Rahul 14, Ramesh 12) bt Devanga Union 31; Ambedkar SC 50 (Vinay 12, Monish 10) bt Nationals (Mysore) 49 (Jitendar Singh 20, Amogh 15); SAI (Dharwad) 56 (Vikram 12, Alex 10) bt IBBC 41 (Karan 27).

Girls: Shetty’s (Mangalore) 35 (Kruthika 11) bt YMMA 5; Bangalore Sporting 24 bt Vijayanagar (Hospet) 3.

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