Baena’s local sports scene features a packed Saturday schedule on October 24, with teams and individual athletes competing across four distinct disciplines in provincial and Andalusian competitions, baenahoy.es reported. Youth development anchors the agenda, highlighted by 14 swimmers traveling to Córdoba and 13 chess players from the Ruy López club entering the Calle Alta tournament.
Municipal Pavilion Hosts Regional Handball Matches
Club Balonmano Baena plays host to the Andalusian Championship youth categories at the Juan Carlos I municipal pavilion. The morning opens at 9:15 a.m. local time with an alevín female friendly match between Balonmano Pozoblanco and BM Baena. Official competition follows in the main phase, with the male infant squad facing Balonmano Pozoblanco at 10:15 a.m., followed by the female infant team meeting Pozoblanco at 11:30 a.m.
Teresa Alcántara Pool Receives Fourteen Baena Swimmers
Club Natación Baena sends 14 athletes to the Teresa Alcántara Ruiz-Forus Poniente Municipal Sports Center in Córdoba for the opening round of the provincial base swimming league, run by the Andalusian Swimming Federation. Competition starts at 10:00 a.m. for the benjamín and alevín divisions, featuring 50-, 100-, and 200-meter races in freestyle and backstroke. Swimmers Sofía García Moreno, Javier Atenciano Martínez, Lucía Muñoz Campos, Martín del Valle Cubero, Ana Baena Jiménez, Daniela García Rosa, Gema García, Andrea Ortiz Bernabéu, and Francisco José Pulido Cruz make up that roster. The prebenjamín group—Triana Vallejo, Manuel Párraga, Álvaro del Valle, Adrián Ávila, and Rafael Gómez—begins at 1:25 p.m. in 25-meter races covering technique, turns, and breaststroke.
Parque Fidiana Courts Welcome Three Badminton Competitors
Club Bádminton Baena enters three players into the fourth TOP TTR Sub-15 and Sub-19 circuit stop at the Parque Fidiana Municipal Sports Facility in Córdoba. The tournament brings together 109 players across 23 clubs for 168 scheduled matches carrying national ranking points. María Mérida plays in the Sub-15 division for women’s singles and mixed doubles alongside Matías Carneros. Rafael Mérida enters the Sub-19 men’s singles and mixed doubles with Ainara Ríos, while Raúl Molina rounds out the travel party for matches running from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Ruy López Enters Thirteen Players in Calle Alta Chess
Club Ruy López fields 13 players—nearly a quarter of the 55 total entries—at the fifth Hogar Social Calle Alta Chess Tournament in Baena. Eleven Andalusian clubs send players to the event, with Figueroa and Habilit following the host club with nine participants each. Local entries feature José Antonio Amo Párraga at 1,659 Elo points, Agustín Flores Cantero at 1,544, and Jaime Castro Hornero at 1,529, alongside six youth competitors in the Sub-10 and Sub-14 divisions. Sierra Sur player Hugo Giráldez Requena headlines the field as one of three participants rated above 2,000 national Elo points.
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