Bopanna outplays hapless Arun
Sajan Bopanna outplayed MS Arun in straight frames (4-0) in the 38th Senior State-ranking snooker tournament at the KSBA hall on Wednesday.
Results: Vinay Katrela bt Balaji Reddy 4-3 (36-51, 64-38, 82-26, 25-48, 64-36, 30-67, 66-58); Michael Rebello bt KS Naveen Kumar 4-1 (53-54, 66-37, 68-33, 53-28, 70-21); Sajan Bopanna bt Pramod Kumar 4-1 (52-37, 58-43, 45-4, 44-45, 62-33); Duncan Mackenzie bt Sohail Jairaj 4-0 (70-53, 62-20, 78-14, 69-56); Balaji Reddy bt Sohail Jairaj 4-2 (99-13, 18-57, 66-11, 38-58, 66-41, 65-9); KS Naveen Kumar bt Ajay Bhushan 4-2 (69-26, 42-32, 46-61, 38-62, 63-11, 59-51); Deepak bt Pramod Kumar 4-2 (67-1, 59-29, 20-53, 30-57, 62-20, 63-26); Sajan Bopanna bt MS Arun 4-0 (71-32, 79-59, 64-29, 50-44).
MEG Boys ‘B’ score over Postal
MEG Boys ‘B’ pumped in three second-half goals to post a 4-1 comeback win over Postal in a phase II encounter of the D.S. Murthy & V.Karunakaran memorial hockey tournament at the KSHA stadium on Wednesday.
Prakash Chalke put Postal ahead in the 12th minute but MEG Boys restored parity through Punith Bengra three minutes later.
David Dung Dung the increased the MEG Boys’ tally in the opening minute after break while Punith again struck in the 50th minute to make it 3-1. Ajay Kumar Pal finished off the scoring with a 58th-minute strike.
Other results: RWF: 3 (Bharath 2nd, Girish Ganapathy 22nd, Ravi Kumar 32nd) bt BSNL: 2 (Nazim Bepari 14th, 50th); BEL: 4 (Aiyappa 3rd, Tirkey 17th, Subbaiah 33rd, 46th) bt Naveen Hockey Club: 0.
Queenstar drub Town SC
Riding on a hat-trick by Chandru (19th, 24th, 40th), Queenstar trounced Town SC (Hoskot) 6-0 in the ‘C’ Division football league at the ITI ground on Wednesday. Indrajith struck twice (48th, 68th) for the winners while Roni started the goal spree in the 15th minute.
In another league tie at the Malleswaram Corporation ground, Crescent and Vehicles split points with a goalless draw.
Hyderabad PS down Oxford
Hyderabad Public School got the better of Oxford, Bangalore, 3-0 on the second day of the CBSE cluster VII football tournament on Wednesday.
Venkatesh struck a brace for the winners while Sridhar found the target once.
Results: Jain International Residential School: 8 lt to Mahabodhi, Mysore: 9 (tiebreak); Hyderabad Public School: 3 (Venkatesh 2, Sridhar 1) bt Oxford, Bangalore: 0; Venkat International: 3 bt PSSEMR, Davangare: 2 (tiebreak); Sindhi High School, Bangalore: 8 (Aashish 2, Nachiketh 2, Swaroop 1, Vinayak 1, Shreyas 1, Vinod 1) bt Paramahamsa: 0; CST, Odeyarpalya: 7 (Sherab Tenzin 3, Tenzin Migyur 1, Sonam Rabgyal 1, Karma Lungtok 1, Tenzin Rangdoi 1) bt Chinmaya: 1 (Zaheer Ahmed); VPPN, Hyderabad: 2 (Mahendra 1, Abhishek 1) bt Sathya Sai Vidya Kendra, Chikbalapur: 1 (Hemanth 1).
Corporate football tourney
Sportz Village will conduct a five-a-side corporate football tournament on November 17, 18, 24, 25 and December 1 at St John’s Medical college in Koramangala. The last date for entries is November 1.
Further details from Aubrey (99804 18469/ aubrey@sportzvillage.com), Tarun (99002 68528/ tarun@sportzvillage.com) or Shiv Prasad (99808 38897/ shiva@sportzvillage.com).
State-level kabaddi meet
Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhiji Social Welfare Organisation will organise a floodlit kabaddi tournament for men and women at the Gandhi Vidya Shala ground in Srirampuram.
Teams affiliated to the Karnataka Rajya Amateur Kabaddi Association are eligible to participate.
Details from M Shanmugam, Joint Secretary, KRAKA (ph no: 98860 00142) or P Aruna Giri (ph no: 98450 25141/ 98450 03668).
