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Aarthie catches up with SaheliSANGLI: World under-18 champion Aarthie Ramaswamy of Tamil Nadu defeated Baisakhi Das to join Saheli Dhar-B...

Aarthie catches up with Saheli
SANGLI: World under-18 champion Aarthie Ramaswamy of Tamil Nadu defeated Baisakhi Das to join Saheli Dhar-Barua (Eastern Railway) in the lead with six points at the end of seventh round of the 26th National B Women’s Chess Championship on Friday.
Results (7th round): Pallavi Shah (5.5) drew Saheli Dhar-Barua (6), Aarthie Ramaswami (6) bt Baisakhi Das (5), Mrunalini Kunte (5) drew Kiran Agarwal (5), Anupama Gokhale (4.5) lost to S Meenakshi (5.5), SR Radha (4) lost to Nisha Mohota (5), Ashwini Kulkarni (4.5) drew CV Rajalakshmi (4.5), MR Sangeetha (4) lost to Neha Singh (5), Ch Kavitha (4) lost to S Sujatha (5), Dolan Champa Bose (4.5) bt M Sai Meera (3.5), C Delphin (4) drew Bindu K Saritha (4), Manasi Dadarkar (3.5) lost to Y Pratibha (4.5), Anuprita Patil (4) drew E Sheenan (4), H Isai Amudhu (4) drew Purabi Sinha (4), Swati Mohota (4) bt B Latha (3.5), Pushpalatha Mangal (4) bt PV Nirmala (3), Anoori Shah (3.5) drew Shraddha Samani (3.5), JE Kavitha (4) btH Nilavoli (3).

Four for Dhaka
MUMBAI: The Asian Tennis Federation (ATF) has assigned four Indians, including Nitin Kannamwar of Mumbai, as chair umpires for the Bangladesh men’s Futures tennis (F-1 and F-2) to be held at Rajashahi and Dhaka from November 22 to December 5.
The other three — Praveen Kumar, Birbal Wadhera (both Chandigarh) and Sheetal Iyer of Pune — passed the ITF Level 2 course and examination held here recently and have white badges.

State in final
DHULE: Karnataka and Maharashtra men’s and women’s teams stormed into the finals of the 35th Senior National kho kho championship. Maharashtra defeated Andhra Pradesh by 11 points and a turn while Karnataka sidelined Madhya Bharat by seven points and a turn in the semi-finals.
Karnataka women beat Madhya Pradesh by three points and a turn while Maharashtra pipped Madhya Bharat by two points.

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Bagan in semis
CALCUTTA: Mohun Bagan and Tollygunge Agragami sailed into the last four, beating Pakhtakor Club andMohammedan Sporting 2-1 in Group A league matches of the IFA Shield football.
Samuel Omollo and Hari Khadka scored for Bagan while Bezdenejnik German netted for the Uzbeks. Nigerian Awoyimi Isiaka and Aslam Parvez scored for Agragami while Moses Owira put it the consolation goal for Sporting.

Bronze for women
CHANDIGARH: Hosts Punjab and Madhya Pradesh won the boys and girls titles respectively in the 26th Sub-junior National basketball championships at Anandpur Sahib.
Results: Boys (final): Punjab 58 (Karan 13, Mandip 14) bt Rajasthan 42 (B Singh 14, Bhagwan 8) HT 24-21 (3rd place): AP bt Maharashtra 61-50.
Girls (final): MP bt TN 42-33 HT 27-14 (3rd place): Maharashtra bt Kerala 65-35. (Semis): TN bt Kerala 53-47; MP bt Maharashtra 62-26.

Eves in last eight
CHANDRAPUR: Maharashtra girls entered the quarterfinals of the 22nd Sub-junior National volleyball at Chandrapur, acording to information available here. The boys failed to qualify.

PSB inquarters
NEW DELHI: Punjab Police, Punjab and Sind Bank and Karnataka won their respective group matches in the Nehru hockey tournament to make the quarter-finals.