Bengaluru: Karnataka girls shone in doubles at the All India sub-junior (U-15, U-17) ranking badminton tournament in Vijayawada recently. Diya Bheemaiah and Jade Anil topped the U-17 girls doubles, beating Naishaa Kaur Bhatoye of Maharashtra and Durga Isha Kandrapu (AP) 21-18, 19-21, 21-17 while top seeds Aditi Deepak Raj and Vriddhi BV Ponnamma ousted state-mates and second seeds Shaina Manimuthu and Aikya Shetty 21-15, 23-21 in the U-15 girls doubles final. Meanwhile, top seed Prateek Kaundilya settled for silver in U-15 boys singles, losing to eighth seed Akhil Reddy Bobba (AP) 21-19, 21-15.STATE LADS QUALIFYNeeding a win to qualify for the knockouts, Karnataka defeated Maharashtra by five wickets in the BCCI U-23 State ‘A’ Trophy on Thursday. Karnataka restricted the opposition to 254/8 with Rohit Kumar claiming three wickets. In reply, Karnataka chased down the target in 42.3 overs with opener Rohan Patil’s 72-ball 87 being the top score. Skipper R Smaran scored an unbeaten half-century (53 n.o).Brief scores: Maharashtra: 254/8 in 50 overs (Atharv Wanve 32, RS Hadke 27, HA Kate 31, Vicky Ostwal 60, S Churi 53; Monish Reddy 2-60, Yashovardhan Parantap 2-62, Rohit Kumar 3-35) lost to Karnataka: 255/5 in 42.3 overs (Rohan Patil 87, Aneeshwar Gautam 49, Smaran R 53 n.o).Karnataka have it easyKarnataka ended their league engagements in the BCCI Women’s U-19 T20 Trophy with a 10-wicket win over Nagaland in Dehradun on Thursday. Opting to bat, Nagaland struggled to 22/7, which was overhauled by Karnataka in 2.5 overs. Karnataka, who remained unbeaten with five wins, qualified for the quarterfinals to be played in Una, Himachal Pradesh, on November 19. Brief scores: Nagaland: 22/7 (Mithila Vinod 2-7, Bhavika Reddy 2-1) in 20 overs lost to Karnataka: 23/0 in 2.5 overs.Unnathi books worlds berthKarnataka’s Unnathi Bollanda Aiyappa won the gold in women’s U-20 100m hurdles at the National Junior Athletics Championships in Coimbatore on Thursday. Her winning time of 13.98 seconds was just shy of the meet record but was better than the U-20 Worlds qualifying mark of 14.2 seconds. The meet will be held next year in Lima, Peru. Shreeraksha won Karnataka’s second gold of the day when she came first in women’s U-18 2,000m steeplechase.Karnataka Results: Women: U-20: 100m hurdles: 1. Unnathi Bollanda (Kar, 13.98s); 2. Namayi Ruchitha (Tel, 14.3); 3. Sabita Toppo (Odi, 14.32). U-18: 2,000m steeplechase: 1. Shreeraksha (Kar, 7:23.03); 2. Khusi Bhati (Del, 7:27.03); 3. Sabina Rai (Sik, 7:28.69).SCB, Bengaluru FC winDefending champions Sporting Club Bengaluru kept up their chase of Bengaluru FC as both teams recorded wins in the BDFA Super Division football league in Bengaluru on Thursday. While SCB defeated Kodagu FC 2-0, Bengaluru FC hammered Young Challengers FC 6-0. The leauge will a take a three-day break before restarting on Monday.Results: Bengaluru FC 6 (Satendra Singh Yadav 26, 47; Thokchom Malemnganba Singh 39, 65; Shreyas Ketkar 34; Amay Morjkar 37-p) bt Young Challengers FC 0; Bangalore Independents FC 2 (Prasanna Kumar G 1, Saravana Kumar 12) bt Kickstart FC 1 (Alister Anthony 52); South United FC 3 (Nikhil Mali 55-p, 58; Md Altab Hussain 36) drew with FC Bengaluru United 3 (Jerry Onesems Pulamte 22, Ashray Bhardwaj 30, Chesterpoul Lyngdoh 41); Sporting Club Bengaluru 2 (Johanson Joseph Mathews 2; Arif Shaikh 21) bt Kodagu FC 0.Yohan powers Cottons Yohan scored a hat-trick to power Bishop Cotton Boys’ School to a 5-0 win against Ebenezer International School in the Baldwin Shield inter-school football tournament in Bengaluru on Thursday.Results: U-16: St John HS 1 (Joshua 4) bt Ebenezer IS 0; Bishop Cotton BS 5 (Yohan 4, 9, 18; Dereck 10, Amadhya 11) bt Ebenezer IS 0; St Germain’s HS 5 (Humad 8, 18; Sylvester 10, 14; Humad 8) bt FAPS 0; St Joseph’s BHS 1 (Caleb 15) bt Baldwin BHS 0.U-14: Bishop Cotton BS 1 (Taksheel 16) bt FAPS 0; St Joseph’s BHS 4 (Aarnav 9, Jonathan 11, Nakul 17, A Daksh 25) bt Baldwin BHS 0.U-12: Cathedral HS 6 (Monish S 7, 17, 22; Veedaarth 10, 12; Haisam 16) bt Ebenezer IS 0.
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