City briefs

First girls soccer tourney

Sixteen school teams of Delhi / NCR region will vie for top honours in the 1st Delhi Soccer Association ( DSA) Inter – School Girls Football Tournament scheduled to take place from August 16 to September 3 at DDA Netaji Subhash Sports Complex,Jasola. The tournament is being played on league – cum – knockout basis. The participating teams have been divided in six groups of three teams each in the prelliminary qualifying round league.

The top teams of each group will qualify for the qrs-final league stage scheduled to begin from August 24. The Champion team of All India CBSE championship – Ahlcon Public School (Mayur Vihar ) and Vasant Valley,Vasant Vihar have been seeded directly in the quarterfinals.

Nagpal snares five

Deepanshu Kochar scored a fifty (56),Sanyam Arora (34 and 3/26) produced an all round display while Hitesh Arora (4/12) took a four wicket haul to help Global DL DAV Academy beat Rajvanshi Academy by 56 runs in the Swastik Sports Under-17 Cricket tournament at Ghevra ground.

Brief score: Global DL Dav Academy:164 for 8 in 30 overs (Deepanshu Kochar 56,Sanyam Arora 34,Mannu Rajvanshi 4/26,Kanhaiya Lal Sharma 3/40); Rajvanshi Academy 108 all out in 24.5 overs (Sachin Pal 32,Hitesh Arora 4/12,Sanyam Arora 3/26)

RR Gymkhana triumph

Lakshit Kumar’s knock of 68 and Sarthak Rastogi’s three wicket haul (3/33) helped Rohtak Road Gymkhana beat Indian Convent Academy by 20 runs in the Titiksha Under-15 Cricket tournament at Rohini ground.

Brief score: Rohtak Road Gymkhana 239 for 9 in 35 overs (Lakshit Kumar 68,Punit Singh 26,Arpit Arora 3/50,Amar Kumar 3/37); Indian Convent Academy 219 for 6 in 35 overs (Amar Kumar 79,Arpit Arora 45,Sarthak Rastogi 3/33)

Jaya Jain wins martial art gold

Jaya Jain won a gold medal for India at the 12th International Tang So Do World Championship in Chicago. Jain,who has learned the Korean martial art under Master Devender Dutt Gaur,won the yellow metal in the Spairing category among 12 participating countries.