Short Corner — Delhi

Prithvi basketball
Holders Punjab Police in men’s section and Eastern Railway in the women’s section will vie to retain their titles in this year’s all-India Prithvi Nath Memorial Basketball Tournament, at the Ajmal Khan Park courts here from Friday.

Following are the men’s teams: Punjab Police, Western Railway, Border Security Force, Tisco, Andhra Pradesh, ONGC and hosts Prithvi Nath Club.

Among the women participants, runners-up Andhra Pradesh, Central Railway, Delhi and Punjab teams will be competing.

Rahul, Javed excel
Fine batting by Rahul (69) helped Bal Bharti Public School (Pitampura) prevail over Lovely Public School by seven wickets in the Radha Kishan inter-school tournament.

In another match, Guru Harkishan Public School, India Gate, defeated Air Force Bal Bharti Public School, Lodhi Road by six wickets. S Javed contributed 99 runs for the winners while Varun made 46 for the losers.

Bal Bharti: 163 for 4 in 23.5 overs (Rahul 69, Jatin 26) bt Lovely School: 159 in 24.5 overs (Atul 38, Rohit 3 for 26, Sadhart 3 for 26, Rajat 2 for 25). GHPS: 174 for 4 in 19.1 overs (S Javed 99) bt AFBB School: 172 for 8 in 25 overs (Varun 46, Maninder Singh 38, Harish 4 for 57, Bhashin 2 for 12).

Title for Meenu
Suneel Ahuja and Meenu Babbar won the sub-junior boys and sub-junior girls singles titles of the Raj Kumar Babuta Memorial Haryana state ranking table tennis tournament at Panchkula, according to reports reaching here.

Sahil Rally and Poonam won the cadet boys and cadet girls titles, respectively. Suneel beat Neeraj 21-17, 19-21, 21-17 while Meenu had the better of Shweta 21-12, 16-21, 21-19.

Cadet boys: Sahil Rally bt Deepak 21-14, 21-18.Sub-jr boys: Suneel Ahuja bt Neeraj Kumar 21-17 19-21, 21-17. Cadet girls: Preeti Singh bt Poonam 21-6, 21-14.Sub-jr girls: Meenu Babbar bt Shweta 21-12, 16-21, 21-19.

Bon Ton Cup
The third Bon Ton inter-school cricket tournament, organised by Gyan Bharati School (Saket), will be held from October 12. Sixteen teams, including last year’s champions Salwan Boys and runners-up Modern (Barakhamba Road) will take part in the invitational tournament which will be of two days duration. A total cash award of Rs 45,000 will be at stake.

N. Rly triumph
Northern Railway defeated President XI by 25 runs to win the Delhi State senior women’s cricket championship.

Brief Scores: Northern Railway: 159 (Rajni Bhalla 28, Richa Dubey 32, Renuka Dua 29, Reema 4 for 40, Vandana 2 for 18).President XI: 134 (Ruchika 19, Umesh 2 for 20, Richa 2 for 13).

Skating hockey
Bhatnagar International School, Paschim Vihar, won the sub-junior roller skating hockey title at the 18th Delhi State Skating Championship. Shaheed Bishan Singh Memorial School emerged runners-up, with Chandu Skating Club coming third.