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East Bengal downs CPT

KOLKATA: Kingfisher East Bengal got back to winning ways beating Calcutta Port Trust (CPT) 4-2 in a premier division encounter of the Kolkata football League at Kalyani Municipal Stadium on Sunday.

East Bengal’s under-19 striker Budhiram Tudu struck twice while Ghanaian Abel Hammond and Harmanjot Khabra scored once each.

Nigerian striker Ezehnna Henry scored both the CPT goals.

Big relief

The win came as a relief for the East Bengal camp, which had lost its previous match against Tollygunge Agragami.

East Bengal suffered an early set back as the local port team gained a 2-1 lead at the half-time.

Young Budhiram put East Bengal in the lead in the 12th minute but Henry scored two quick goals first off a penalty in the 38th minute and the next a header just before the break to put CPT ahead.

Strong reply

East Bengal came back strongly after the break and equalised through Hammond in the 57th minute. Khabra (71st) and Bhudhiram (73rd) made the most of CPT custodian Arindam Ghosh’s sloppy vigil to score for East Bengal.

The win helped East Bengal tally seven points from four matches while CPT continued to stay at the bottom of the standings with just one point from four matches.

AAI sweeps titles

Airports Authority of India (AAI) won both the men’s and women’s team titles in the finals of the all India inter-institution badminton organised by the Ordnance Factories Board here at the SAI Eastern Centre on Sunday.

Tough challenge

The AAI team met with a tough challenge from Food Corporation of India (FCI) in the men’s final, which went till the decider.

The FCI team took a 2-1 lead at one stage winning a singles and the first doubles match of the rubber.

But Sumeeth Reddy turned things around for AAI winning the third singles to level the scores 2-2. Sumeeth teamed up with Sai Praneeth, the winner of the first singles, to win the second singles and decide the title in AAI’s favour.

The AAI women had it easy against holder BSNL, which it blanked 2-0 in the final.

The results: Men: final: AAI SCB bt FCI SCB 3-2 (Sourav Kapoor lost to N. Srujan 19-21, 21-14, 16-21; Sai Praneeth bt Koushik Pal 21-12, 21-13; Saween & Venkatraman lost to Srujan & Alvin Francis 10-21, 8-21; Sumeeth Reddy bt Alvin Francis 16-21, 21-11, 21-16; Sumeeth & Praneeth bt Davinder Dhillon & Koushik Paul 21-15, 20-22, 21-12).

Third place play-off: Life Insurance Corporation SCB bt Ordnance Factories SPB 3-1;

Seimifinals: AAI SCB bt OF SPB 3-0; FCI SCB bt LIC SCB 3-0.

Women: final: AAI SCB bt Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 2-0 (N. Sikky Reddy bt Manali Sinha 21-12, 21-6; Avantika Deka & S. Sampada bt Manali & Rani Singh 21-11, 21-6).

Third-place play off: LIC SCB bt Dept. of Atomic Energy SCB 2-0.

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