Bangalore: BK Prabhakara earned a spot to represent Puravankara Bangalore team of Louis Philippe Cup 2014 after shooting a round with a total nett score of 44 stableford points at the Bangalore Golf Club on Saturday. Priya Alex returned with 39 nett points to finish the day as runner up, but missed the bus to represent a Bengaluru team for India’s biggest city-based team golf championship.
Prabhakar will be joined by two other amateurs, Saif Mekhri who won from Eagleton Golf Resort and David D’souza who sealed his berth from KGA last month. The trio will form the Puravankara Bangalore amateur team and fight for the Inter-City Pro Am title at Louis Philippe Cup 2014.
The tournament was played in the stableford format where Bangalore Golf Club hosted the last club qualifier for the third edition of the Louis Philippe Cup.
A one day event witnessed some serious competition amongst 200 avid amateur golfers from the city who were playing for the coveted prize - a chance to play alongside Anirban Lahiri for Puravankara Bangalore team at Louis Philippe Cup 2014.
Bhuvan marches on
Bhuvan Hawargi eased past Prem Kumar 8-1 to enter the third round of the boy’s event at the U-12 STC-AITA Talent Series tournament on Saturday.
Results: Boys singles: Bhuvan A. bt Gagandeep 8-0; Nanaiah bt Tarun Gowda 8-0; Bhuvan Hawargi bt Prem Kumar 8-1; Manoj Madhavan bt Pradeep Singh 8-7 (3); Hiten Sreelesh bt Nirmal Joseph John 8-3; Prasanna bt Akshay Gupta 8-0; Adarssh Arun bt Praveen 8-0; Karthikyean Ravi bt Viraj Anand Kumar 8-2; Vishal Reddy bt Harpal Singh 8-1; Nikhil Ranjan bt Sidhanth Iyer 8-0; Siddarth Sunil bt Kiran Kumar 8-5; Hitesh P. bt Rishab Sunil 8-2; Deepak A. bt Rohan Ravish 8-1; Jaidir Reddy bt Chirag 8-1; Anirudh Kumar bt Sashank Narde 8-4; Manav Srikumar bt S.Aditya 8-2; Nitin Varma bt Harshil Reddy 8-0; Sahil S. bt Nikhil Abraham
8-0; Manikandan bt Uttkarsh Kumar 8-5; Bhargav Narayan bt Kevin Titus 8-1.
Income Tax claim trophy
Income Tax edged out Dharmaraja Union 5-4 via tie breaker in the final of the BDFA ‘B’ Division football knockout tournament for the Jagdeshwara Achar Cup on Saturday.
Income Tax converted all their spot kicks while Dhramaraja Union could only convert four out of five after the duo played out a goalless draw. Shelton of Dhramaraja Union was named the player of the tournament.
Result: Final: Dharmaraja Union 0(4) lt to Income Tax 0 (5) via tie breaker.
TN defeat Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu got past Andhra Pradesh 3-1 in the meÂn’s section of the Youth South Zone volleyball chaÂmpionship on Saturday. In the woman’s division, Tamil Nadu and KarnaÂtaka overcame PondichÂeÂrÂry and Andhra Pradesh reÂsÂpÂectively to enter the final.
Results: Men: Tamil Nadu 3 bt Andhra Pradesh 1 (23-25, 29-27, 25-20 & 25-18). Women: Tamil Nadu 3 bt Pondicherry 0 (25-12, 25-06, 25-17); Karnataka 3 bt Andhra Pradesh 0 (25-04, 25-20 & 25-17)
Aditya stuns Darshan
Unrated Aditya S playing a good middle game capitalised on the mistakes made by his seeded rival VPS Darshan in the third round of the Mysore District Open chess tournament, conducted by Mysore Professional Chess Academy.
Important results: Third round: Ayush N Ubale (2) lt Y G Vijendra (3); Kedar Umesh Vaze (3) bt T Amith (2); Preetham Gangadhar (2) lost Arjun U Prabhu (3); S Aditya (3) bt V P S Darshan (2); S Amith (2) lt to L Vivekananda (3); Shashidhar (3) bt B Bharath (2); A Ravish (3) bt T K Chandana Prasad (2); S N Jatin (2.5) drew S Sanjith (2.5); S Chiranjan (2) lt to Saran R Setty (3); Dixit Gowda H S (2) lt to Naveen Ranganath (3); Vrushank V (3) bt M Supraja (2); Yuvashankar B (3) bt C Trishul (2); Venkatesh S (2) lt to P Shreyas (3).
State-level tourney from Jan 21
Sahakaranagar BasketÂball Club will conduct a State- level Invitation basketball tournament for men and women at Sahakaranagara BaskeÂtÂball Courts from January 21.
For further details contact the organizing secretary Arun Kumar: (mob) 9448212519 or via email: bnkarun@gmÂail.com.
Vijaya Bank emerge victorious
Vijaya Bank registered a comprehensive 91-68 victory over ASC in the State ‘A’ Division basketball league match for Prof. N.C. Parappa Memorial Trophy on Saturday.
Results: Vijaya Bank 91 (Arvind 34 Sanjayraj 22) bt ASC 68 (Atif 25 velliappan 23) HT 53-40; HASC 75 (Czer 19 Dhiraj Shetty 13) bt MEG 68 (Amal 15 Sirajuddin14) HT 36-38; KSP 64 (Mahesh 26 Santosh 20) bt Beagles 59 (Shashank 26 Etang 13) HT 40-30; CMP 60 (Rajesh 10) bt BSNL 46 (Rohit 18) HT 36-16.
