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Saurabh Singh blasted three goals as hosts Lucknow registered a 4-1 victory against Kaushambi in their league match of the Eldeco Jaman Lal Sharma memorial state level hockey tournament being held at Lucknow. The tournament is being organised by the KD Singh Babu Memorial Society. Saurabh Singh broke the ice the 12th minute of the play to impart a 1-0 lead to the Lucknow team. Bolstered by his initial success,he netted another goal in the 25th minute to make the half-time score 2-0. Dribbling past defenders intelligently,Kaushambi forward Zaib scored a beautiful goal in the 46th minute to decrease the margin. However,Saurabh made no mistake in capitalising on a penalty stroke awarded in the 48th minute to make the score 3-1. Two minutes later,Lucknow player Saurabh Singh scored apiece to make the score 4-1 which was maintained till the final moments of the play.
Four more league stage matches were played on Tuesday. Helped by two goals by Neeraj Yadav and apieceeach by Surya Kant and Sonu Yadav,Mau beat Pilibhit by 4-1. Prashant scored the consolation goal on behalf of Pilibhit. Allahabad beat Ghazipur by 2-1. Both the goals on behalf of Allahabad were netted by Divyank Srivastava while Aman Kumar was the goal getter for Ghazipur. Vidhan netted three goals,Alok scored two goals while Akhilesh Yadav and Ankit scored a goal each as Atgawan team defeated Etawah by 7-0. Karampur team defeated Meerut by 7- 1. The highlight of the match was a hat-trick of goals by Karampur forward Uttam. Vivek Academy beat Saharanpur by 6-0 in another onesided match.
Anuj excels
Promising young player,Anuj Bhargava of the Sai Snooker Academy laid low the pride of the defending champion IS Malik in the final of the billiards event to be crowned the district billiards champion here at MB Club on Tuesday evening the Fourth Raja Ram Kumar Bhargava memorial district billiards and snooker championships.
For Malik it was heartbreaking let down,as this day his cue was not as vocal as it should have been,sadly out of touch and more emphatically inconsistent.
For Anuj,it was the culmination of hard work,commitment and a sense of purpose which fetched him the honours at the end of the two hour match. In the morning on Tuesday,Anuj who is also the No. 2 billiards player Uttar Pradesh,exhibited great character to pip the state junior billiards champion and No. 2 junior billiards player of the country,Malkeet Singh in a nerve tingling two hour second semi-final match by a mere two points
by 404-402 points to earn right to set up a clash with Malik who last evening had made it to the final with close victory over Gaurav Nathani. In the final,Anuj recorded the best break of the championship,a well constructed break of 80 in the process outplaying Malik.
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