NEW DELHI, December 25: Delhi and Haryana will meet in the final of Vinoo Mankad Trophy (u-16) being held here as part of the National School Games. In the semi-finals played today, Delhi beat Uttar Pradesh by 52 runs and Haryana defeated Assam by 35 runs.Delhi have also entered the boys final in hockey while the grls have made it to the semi-finals, beating Maharashtra 5-0. Neelam (2), Gurpreet, Naresh and Harpreet scored for the home team. In the boys section, Delhi beat Punjab 2-1 while Bihar ousted Orissa 2-0. Jaspreet Singh and Rajinder were the goal-getters for Delhi.ResultsWrestling (final): 70 kg: Chand Ram (Dli) bt Gulabchand (UP). For 3rd place: Ravinder (Mah) bt Sandeep Yadav (Guj). U-19 category: Mohd Gulzar (42 kg), Rohtash (49 kg), Davinder (56 kg), Niranjan (60 kg), Sudhir (65 kg), Sandeep (76 kg), Anil (83 kg) and Sandeep (plus 83 kg) have entered the finals in wrestling event.Badus in finalItishree and Utkalika will meet in the girls (u-18) final of O P Gupta memorial floodlit tennis tournament at Chelmsford Club.Boys u-14 (semi-finals): Arjun Uppal bt Nikhil Goswami 6-2, 6-7, 7-6; Rahul Verma bt R Sabharwal 6-4, 6-2. Boys u-18 (semi-finals): Ashutosh Singh bt Ashish Gupta 6-1, 6-2; Pundreek Chaturvedi bt Rahul Sharma 6-3, 6-2. Girls u-18 (semi-finals): Itishree Badu bt Poornima Narayan 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Utkalika Badu bt Harsimran Kaur 6-3, 6-2. Women's singles (quarter-finals): Shalini Thakur bt Harsimran Kaur 6-0, 6-0; Utkalika Badu bt Jessisa Kapoor 6-0, 6-1; Poornima Narayan bt Vijay Aharia 6-0, 6-0; Yamini Sekhri bt Amrita Chadha 6-0, 6-0. Men's singles (quarter-finals): Desh Gaurav Sekhri bt Vipin Sirpaul 6-2, 6-2; Navinder Singh bt Rahul Sharma 5-7, 7-5, 6-4; Raman Bhutani bt Vijay Prakash 6-4, 6-2; Aushutosh Singh bt Pundreek Chaturvedi 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.Gold for VitenderVitender Kumar of JCT won a gold medal in the 75 kg weight category in the Commonwealth bodybuilding championships at Melaka (Malaysia) while Prasad Kumar (silver in 90 kg) and T V Pauly (fourth in 65 kg) also performed creditably.
