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Vasanth upsets second seed Rohith, enters quarterfinals

Bangalore: Vasanth Kumar, seeded 20th, upset second seed Rohith Karnatak 21-19, 21-17 in the boys' under-17 pre-quarterfinals of the W. Suresh Kumar Memorial State-ranking badminton tournament that commenced at the KBA and Canara Union Courts, here on Sunday.

The results: Pre-quarterfinals:

Boys: U-17: Daniel Farid bt Mahesh Kumar 21-2, 21-9; Yuvaraj Shinde bt Mithun Manjunath 21-17, 21-18; B.R. Sankeerth bt Akhilesh Moktali 21-16, 21-19; Rajat Ramagonda bt Pranav Vasudevan 21-14, 13-21, 21-15; Rajkumar bt Vaikunth Bharadwaj 21-11, 21-10.

Sahil Sipani bt Syed Saad Ali 21-11, 21-9; Harshith Agarwal bt Shivendu 21-8, 21-13; Vasanth Kumar bt Rohith Karnatak 21-19, 21-17. U-15: Daniel Farid bt Tanush Hedge 21-2, 21-9; Mithun Manjunath bt Likith Gowda 21-23, 21-18, 21-12; Sankeerth bt Nikhil Sriram 21-5, 21-5; Vasishta Suresh bt Vignesh 21-10, 21-7; E.S. Siddarth bt Sripoorna Purohit 21-17, 21-10.

Sahil Sipani bt Anish Upadhye 21-8, 21-12; Pradyumna Kulkarni bt Vishal Bhat 21-12, 21-16; Sudeep Suresh bt Shashank 21-14, 21-9. U-13: Rahul Bharadwaj bt C. Uday 21-9, 21-5; Nikhil Sriram bt Sai Pratheek 21-5, 21-10; Abishek bt S. Avinash 21-16 21-13; Amogh Gupta bt Rohit Krishna 21-11, 21-8; B.S. Shantanu bt Nakul Rao 21-17, 21-10; Rohan Kamat bt S. Amudhan 18-21, 21-12, 21-17; M. Rohit bt M. Likith 21-12, 21-16; S. Vignesh bt Yash Patil 21-5 21-4.

Girls: U-17: Syeda Saadath Arsheen bt Pooja Manjunath 21-5, 21-4; Maitreyi bt Prasamsha Bhandari 21-4, 21-13; Reshma Karthik bt R.N. Savitha 21-7, 21-5; Harshitha bt Charitha Kishore 21-9, 21-5; Sindu Bharadwaj bt Parvathi 21-13, 21-14; Aashi Gupta bt Neha 21-11, 21-9; Anagha bt Ruchika 21-12, 21-9; Mahima Aggarwal bt Meghana Kulkarni 21-19, 21-16.

U-15: Mahima Aggarwal bt Sheetal Sudarshan 21-10, 21-5; Aashi Gupta bt Advika Ganesh 21-3, 21-11; Rachita Patil bt Tanvee 21-13, 21-12; Archana Pai bt Shraddha Marthanda 21-7, 21-9; Harshala Dinakar bt Chinmayi Venkatesh 21-19, 17-21, 21-18; Apeksha Nayak bt Sarayau Anshuman 21-5, 21-9.

Mithula bt R.N. Savitha 21-16, 16-21, 22-20; Ashwini Bhat bt Mernaz Irani 21-8, 21-15. U-13: Apeksha Nayak bt D. Sheetal 21-6, 21-4; Sarayu Anshuman bt Shivani Pathi 21-14, 22-20; Reenu Tirumal bt Richa Muktibodh 21-16, 21-5.

Trisha Hegde bt Arundatti Paramshetti 21-16, 21-11; Sheetal Sudarshan bt Sowmya (retired) 2-2; Archana Pai bt R.R. Dharani 21-4, 21-5; U.K. Mithula bt Smirthi 21-10, 21-9; Ashwini Bhat bt Drithi Yatheesh 21-6, 21-10.

Kuldeep wins

Hav. Kuldeep Singh of host ASC Centre & College won the National equestrian championship that concluded here on Sunday.

Trailing Ris. Rajpal Singh in the Three Day Event standings after the dressage and cross country competitions,

Hav. Kuldeep inched ahead with his superior performance in the show-jumping – the final part of the triathlon – to claim the individual title. LD Govind Ram finished in third place.

RVC Centre & College ‘B', comprising Ris. Rajpal, Swr. Rajender Singh, Nb. Ris. Narender Singh, and LD Hari Om, bagged the team title.

The tenth competitor to take his turn in the 10-jump arena, Hav. Kuldeep looked assured astride Trishul, faltering only at three obstacles to incur a total of 12 faults.

While the first six jumps were flawless, Trishul foundered on the seventh, knocking over the rails on the 1.15m fence – the highest on the 370m course.

The following two jumps – a vertical and the Liverpool – were cleared with ease but the horse struggled on the final one, dropping two of the three obstacles that made up the combination jump.

Ris. Rajpal may have been the favourite at that point, but the RVC Centre & College rider, astride Mustafa, knocked over six obstacles, incurring 24 faults, to hand his rival the title.

The results:

CCI* (Three Day Event): Individual: 1. Hav. Kuldeep Singh (Trishul-ASC C & C); 2. Ris. Rajpal Singh (Mustafa-RVC C & C); 3. LD Govind Ram (Jungli Boy-RVC C & C).

Team: 1. RVC C & C ‘B' (Ris. Rajpal Singh, Swr. Rajender Singh, Nb. Ris. Narender Singh, LD Hari Om); 2. RVC C & C ‘A' (Ris. Gulab Singh, Dfr. Govind Ram, Swr. Ankush Kumar, Swr. P. Viswanath).

One Day Event: Pre-Novice:

Show-jumping: Individual: 1. Maj. R.S. Singh (Ramasus-DGAR); 2. Nk. Rambhan (Gold-ASC C & C); 3. Sep. Jalim Singh (Gambler-ASC C & C).

Team: 1. ASC C & C ‘A' (Col. R.S. Yadav, Col. Jagat Singh, Lt. Col. K.D.S. Hooda, Maj. R.S. Singh); 2. ASC C & C ‘C' (Maj. P.K. Bagul, Nk. Khiv Singh, Nk. Rambhan, Sep. Govardhan Lal); 3. ASC C & C ‘B' (Maj. D.P. Nanda, Hav. Kuldeep Singh, Sep. Rajiv Kumar Chandel, Sep. Jalim Singh) .

Salauddin scalps five

Helped by a five-wicket haul by leg-spinner Md. Salauddin (five for 56), The Mysore Gymkhana registered a facile four-wicket win over Jaihind CC ‘A' in the KSCA Mysore Zone first division league tie played at PET grounds, Mandya on Sunday.

The scores:

First Division: Jaihind CC ‘A' 193 in 49.2 overs (M.B.Vinay 68, Ganesh 30, Karthik Raghavan 33, Imran Sherrif 29, Md. Salauddin five for 56) lost to The Mysore Gymkhana 197 for six in 38.2 overs (Uttam Raj 50, Yogesh

38, B. Harsha 40 n.o).

Third Division: CPC Polytechnic 163 in 41 overs (K Manjunath 52, M.V. Karthik 36, S. Chandrashekar six for 42) bt Garner CC 145 in 31.5 overs (Lohith 34, N.V. Karthik five for 42, Harsha three for 27) .

Sumantha shines

Sumantha's brace (34th and 47th minutes) helped Dhyanchand HC blank Warrior SC 5-0 in a ‘C' division hockey league match at the KSHA Stadium here on Sunday. Bharathi, Deepu and Vivek also scored for the victor.

Other result:

Bijapur HA 3 (Ibrahim 2, Abid) bt East India HC 1 (Jaswin).

BDFA elections

M.P. Swamy, S.T. Bhoopal and R. Ramakrishna were unanimously re-elected as the chairman, secretary and treasurer respectively of the Bangalore District Football Association in Bangalore on Sunday.

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