Title for Mount St Mary's
Hosts Mount St Mary's School (Delhi Cantt) won the 13th O' Brien memorial inter-school tennis tournament in the junior division beating Modern School (Vasant Vihar) 2-1. In the junior singles, Rajat Madan (Mount St Mary's) trounced Shravin Mittal 6-1, 6-1; Abhinav Grover of Modern School edged past Rachit Raj 6-4, 6-7, 6-4 while in the junior doubles encounter, Rajat Madan/Vijay Jaiswal of Mount St Mary's overcome Abhinav Grover/Shravin Mittal of Modern School (Vasant Vihar) 7-6, 6-3, 10-8. Divij Sharan of Modern School has been declared best promising player of the tournament.St Columba's in final
A quickfire 98 off 89 balls by Franklin and an all-round display by Vaibhav Rastogi (41 and 3 for 53) helped St Columba's School beat Frank Anthony School by 48 runs to enter the final of the Xth Brother Folley memorial tournament.
Brief scores: St Columba's School: 236 in 39.3 overs (Franklin 98, Vaibhav Rastogi 41, Madhur 28, Ayush 3 for zero, Vikas Raina 3 for 30) bt Frank Anthony School: 188 in 34 overs (Ashish Barua 38, Clifford Highfield 28, Vikash Raina 23, Vaibhav Rastogi 3 for 53, Praful 2 for 23, Madhur 2 for 30, Jai 2 for 34).
DS Group in semi-finals
Fine batting by Subhash Chaudhary helped DS Group beat Action Club and enter the semi-final of the Jagdish Khatri Memorial Cricket Tournament. In other matches, Rajender Pal Cricket Academy beat MRF, Faridabad, by 150 runs to enter the quarter-finals and KN Colts beat Victory Club by seven wickets.
Brief scores: Action Club: 156 in 35 overs (Dharmendra 33, Rishiraj 31, Navneet 26, Naveen 24, Pratap Rawat 3/18) lost to DS Group: 157/8 (Subhash Chaudhary 60, Rakesh Bhatia 33, Harish Kumar 25); Victory Club: 144/9 in 35 overs (Gagan Kamal 20, Rohit Kalra 19, Dinesh 2/20) lost to KN Colts: 145/3 (Amardeep Jakhar 60, Dinesh 25) Rajender Pal Academy: 235/5 (Pankaj Kohli 55, Prabhjit Singh 45, Sunil Sudan 39, Amit Mishra 25) bt MRF: 85 (Amit Mishra 6/10, Surender Dayma 2/15).
Lucent beat American Express
Lucent Technologies defeated American Express Bank by 13 runs in Dattu Phadkar Memorial Cricket Tournament organised by TERI.
Brief scores: Lucent Technologies: 175/8 in 25 overs (Sharad Madhok 93, Tushar 21, Parvesh Paul 4/26, Ahmed 3/48) bt American Bank Express: 162 (Amit Garg 46, Rakesh 3/20, Sharad Madhok 2/21).
Indraprasthra Academy win
Indraprastha Sports Academy defeated Joseph and Mary School by 58 runs in the opening match of Ayush Jain memorial Friendship Cup.
Brief scores: Indraprastha Academy: 227/5 in 35 overs (Parul Jain 53, Vikas Verma 43, Sobers Joban 39, Pradeep Gupta 29, Ravi 2/40) bt Joseph & Mary: 169 (Kush 35, Giriraj 29, Sobers Joban 3/17, Ankit Joshi 3/21, Sukhpal Matharu 2/20).
Inter-zonal sport meet
Sports Branch, Dir of Edu of Delhi will organise inter-zonal competitions for under-14, u-17 and u19 boys and girls from November 3 at Chhatrasal Stadium, Model town. About 5000 players from 28 zones of 11 districts will participate in 17 disciplines, including athletics. For details contcat: Sat Pal, Dy Dir of Edn (Sports) atvenue.
GHPS prevail over DAV
Guru Harkishan Public School (Fateh Nagar) defeated DAV Public School (Rohini) in the 17th SS Mota Singh Memorial hockey tournament. Jaspreet Singh (12th minute) and Harpreet Singh (34th) scored for winners. Lalit Gupta reduced margin for DAV.
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