Shivam, Vibhu triumph in chess c'ship

Published>Mon, Jul 26 10 05:47 AM

Shivam Shukla and Vibhu Bajpai, both from City Montessori School, collected a maximum of 5 points each to win the Black & White Inter School Chess Championship held at Modern World School, Lucknow. In the under-13 category, Vasu Bajpai (CMS) occupied the top spot. Adharshika Pandey of Kendriya Vidyalaya emerged winner in the girls' section. Nancy Bhardwaj, Sanjeevani Ratnam and Ria Kesari (all from CMS) stood joint second.

Babu shinesALL-ROUND efforts by Babu Yadav (52 runs; 2 for 33) helped Yorker Academy in defeating Manchester Academy by two wickets in their league match of the St. Ann's Friendship Cup being held at Lucknow. In another league match of the same tourney, Mini Stadium, Vikas Nagar team beat St. Ann's School by 2 runs.Brief Scores: (1st match):- Manchester Academy: 117 all out in 17.3 overs (Suri Singh 30, Faisal 29, Abhishek Tripathi 21; Atul Singh 2 for 17, Ankit Yadav 2 for 24, Babu Yadav 2 for 33); Yorker Academy: 118 for eight in 19 overs ( Babu Yadav 52, Ankit Yadav 20; Sumit Trivedi 2 for 9, Ebrahim 2 for 18, Vikas Rawat 2 for 23); (2nd match):- Mini Stadium, Vikas Nagar: 124 for six in 20 overs ( Yashwardhan Singh 48, Akash Pandey 18, Rajan Mishra 16; Ashutosh Singh 4 for 22, Vineet Singh 1 for 24); St. Ann's School: 122 all out in 20 overs ( Akshay 27; Irfan Khan 2 for 11, Piyush Rajan 2 for 20, Yashwardhan 1 for 14).

Moksha, Saumya winMOKSHA Thukral defeated Ananya Tandon 5-1 while Saumya Tandon beat Meenu Pandey 5-1 in their respective semi-final matches of the girls' under-16 singles event to set up a title cash against each other in the Lucknow District Junior Tennis Championship-2010 being organised by the RDSO Sports Association.

Football leagueTHE league match between XI Star and White Eagle of the district football league ended in a 3-3 draw at Dilkusha grounds, Lucknow on Sunday. As per reports reaching here, players of both teams "fought for quite some time over a decision given by the referee in the second-half of the play." However, president District Football Association (DFA) Satish Shukla claimed, that match had to be stopped for about 10 minutes due to arguments between the players regarding the referee's decision.

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