Indian sports activities wrap, October 26: Indian Railways wins World Railway Volleyball Championship

VOLLEYBALL

Indian Railways wins World Railway Volleyball Championship

Indian Railways beat host Germany within the remaining of the World Railway Volleyball Championship 2024 at Schwerin, Germany on Saturday.

It defeated Suisse 3-0 within the semifinal and prolonged its successful streak to 3 video games en path to the summit conflict.

The crew didn’t lose a set and went on to win 3-0 towards Germany, beating it 25-17, 25-16, 25-19.

-Workforce Sportstar

GOLF

Sneha, Avani miss out as Indian-American Gurleen strikes forward at LPGA Q-Sequence

Indian golfers Sneha Singh and Avani Prashanth, who skipped the Hero Ladies’s Indian Open because it clashed with the LPGA Q-Sequence Qualifying, failed to succeed in the the Remaining Stage.

Sneha, the 2023 home Order of Benefit winner, shot rounds of 73-72-73-78 to complete at 8-over and was Tied-144th, whereas Avani with rounds of 80-74-72-72 was 10-over and T-167 on the Plantation Golf and Nation Membership.

In the meantime, first-generation Indian-American, Gurleen Kaur, who had a low key first 12 months on the LPGA, will make an try and get again to the Tour as she made the Q-Sequence finals.

The 24-year-old, who performed 15 occasions and made the lower in 5, completed T-12 with playing cards of 70-70-70-69 to be 9-under as the highest 35 and ties moved into the Remaining Stage.

The 2024 Qualifying Stage of LPGA Q-Sequence got here to a detailed with 43 golfers advancing to Remaining Qualifying, all with an opportunity to earn LPGA Tour membership for the 2025 season.

England’s Mimi Rhodes and French newbie Adela Cernousek in the end shared the highest honours at Qualifying with the pair ending the 72-hole occasion tied at 14-under.

Rounding out the highest 5 have been Melanie Inexperienced, Zoe Antoinette Campos and Bi Shin. Inexperienced and Campos have been T3 whereas Shin signed off in solo fifth place.

The Remaining Qualifying portion of LPGA Q-Sequence might be held at Magnolia Grove Golf Membership from December 5-9. The highest-25 opponents and ties on the conclusion of Remaining Qualifying will earn their LPGA Tour playing cards for the 2025 season

– PTI

Shubhankar slips to 51st at Genesis Championships

Indian golfer Shubhankar Sharma carded a disappointing four-over 76 within the third spherical to lie Tied-51st on the Genesis Championship on the DP World Tour.

Sharma (71-68-76) struggled to construct on his stable second spherical that had helped him make the lower as he was one-under for 3 rounds.

Byeong Hun An overcame a difficult day to arrange an exhilarating final-round showdown with fellow South Korean Tom Kim on the high.

The house favorite had birdied essentially the most holes through the first two rounds and appeared set to speed up from the chasing pack when he picked up a shot on the first on an excellent Saturday at Jack Nicklaus Golf Membership Korea.

Nevertheless, the World Quantity 36 solely picked up two extra photographs, alongside two bogeys, in his one-under 71 to sit down alongside Kim at 12 underneath par.

The pair is one shot forward of Frenchman Antoine Rozner, who carded a seven-under 65 to initially set the clubhouse goal, and Portugal’s Ricardo Gouveia and Italian Francesco Laporta in Incheon.

Gouveia, who began the week in 154th place, moved as much as provisional 107th within the Race to Dubai Rankings after carding a three-under 69 to spice up his possibilities of incomes his enjoying rights for subsequent season.

Denmark’s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Japan’s Rikuya Hoshino and Spaniard Alejandro Del Rey are at ten-under. South African Brandon Stone, New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier and first spherical chief Ivan Cantero are one shot additional again.

– PTI

Golfer Rayhan tied second in Worldwide Sequence Bangkok

Indian golfer Rayhan Thomas adopted up his second-round 63 with a 6-under 64 on the third day to place himself ready to problem for the title on the Worldwide Sequence Bangkok on Saturday.

The UAE-based participant is now 14-under for 3 rounds and mendacity tied second with 5 others.

Thomas was one in all three Indians to make the lower within the match. Whereas Thomas was 14-under after three days, Gaganjeet Bhullar (65-66-68) was 11-under and tied seventeenth and Karandeep Kochhar (66-669-65) was 10-under and tied twenty fourth.

American Peter Uihlein (64-62-67) opened up a three-shot lead on the Thai Nation Membership. He fired a three-under-par 67 for a three-round combination of 17-under.

The match is the sixth cease on the Worldwide Sequence this 12 months and gives the pathway to the the LIV Golf League.

Sitting in second place with Rayhan are Pakistan’s Ahmad Baig (63), a star on this 12 months’s Asian Improvement Tour (ADT), Swede Charlie Lindh (65), Max Lee Chieh-po (67) from Chinese language-Taipei and Australian Maverick Antcliff (69).

American John Catlin shot the bottom spherical of the week, a 61, and is one other stroke again with Filipino Miguel Tabuena (65) and David Boriboonsub (67) from Thailand.

Thomas is catching the attention regardless of having solely performed a handful of occasions since turning skilled this 12 months.

“I graduated on the finish of Could, so I simply turned professional, sort of at first of June,” mentioned Thomas, who went to Oklahoma State.

In August, he gained on his debut on the Skilled Golf Tour of India, successful the Coimbatore Open. Earlier than that he completed tied-eighth within the Worldwide Sequence Morocco.

“I’ve gained confidence each week, which is nice. I’ve been capable of step up on the proper occasions, and so it’s been trending the fitting manner, and hopefully I can preserve it going.”

– PTI

CRICKET

Vinoo Mankad Trophy: Gujarat beats Bengal by 10 wickets in remaining

Gujarat rode on off-break bowler Rudra N. Patel’s four-wicket haul to outplay Bengal by 10 wickets within the remaining and elevate the under-19 Vinoo Mankad Trophy on the Sanosara Cricket Floor ‘B’ in Rajkot on Saturday.

Electing to bat, Bengal crumbled underneath stress as player-of-the-match Rudra picked up 4 wickets. No.8 batter Debangshu Pakhira (37) top-scored for Bengal with a affected person knock.

In reply, Gujarat openers Rudra Mayur Patel (33 n.o., 54b, 4×4, 1×6) and Krrish Chauhan (61 n.o., 10×4) helped their aspect obtain the goal inside 22 overs.

Bengal all-rounder Vishal Bhati was adjudged the player-of-the-series.

-Y.B.Sarangi

POLO

Bhopal Pataudi Cup: Siddhant Sharma guides Jindal Panther to victory

Siddhant Sharma hammered six objectives in guiding Jindal Panther to victory over Military Crimson within the semifinals of the Bhopal Pataudi Cup polo match on the Jaipur Polo floor right here on Saturday.

Within the remaining to be performed on the identical venue at 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, Jindal Panther will tackle Achievers, which beat Delta Polo 6-4.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

HOCKEY

Nehru women match: Bidyaluxmi shines as Iramdam Maheikol College beats St. Anthony 17-0

Bidyaluxmi Devi smashed eight objectives to energy Iramdam Maheikol College, Langmeidong, Manipur, to a 17-0 victory over St. Anthony Excessive College, Bandez, Goa, in a league match of the Charanjit Rai thirtieth Nehru women hockey match on the Shivaji Stadium on Saturday.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

TENNIS

ITF girls’s tennis: Prime seeds Ankita and Dalila win in doubles semifinals

Prime seeds Ankita Raina and Dalila Jakupovic beat Jana Kolodynska and Katarina Kuzmova 6-4, 6-3 within the doubles semifinals of the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Kayseri, Turkey, on Saturday.

Within the remaining, the Indo-Slovenian pair will meet Isabella Aguirre and Abigail Rencheli of USA.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

AITA males’s tennis: Former nationwide champion VM Ranjeet beats Lokesh in remaining

Former nationwide champion VM Ranjeet outplayed Lokesh Punn 6-1, 6-1 within the remaining of the Rs.100,000 AITA males’s tennis match on the Godspeed Academy on Saturday.

Ranjeet was earlier stretched by the proficient junior, Aarjun Pandit, earlier than he prevailed 7-6(0), 1-6, 6-1 within the semifinals.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

FOOTBALL

Tremendous League Kerala: Thrissur lastly finds its magic, shocks Calicut for its first SLK win

One might nearly really feel the Calicut FC stars licking their lips, prepared for a luxurious get together, as they landed on the Payyanad Stadium right here on Saturday night for his or her Tremendous League Kerala match towards Thrissur Magic FC.

Calicut was already within the semifinal, the primary to get in, whereas Thrissur was on the backside of the desk, shedding six of the eight video games it had performed until right this moment.

The Thrissur goalkeeper Pratheesh pulled off some gorgeous saves. Right here he’s seen going for an try from Calicut striker Kervens Belfort.
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Sakeer Hussain

However Thrissur lastly discovered its magic on Saturday because it shocked table-topper Calicut with a 1-0 victory, its first win on this inaugural SLK season, although it got here a bit too late within the day.

Okay.P. Shamnad scored the match-winner with a Tenth-minute header.

Already out of the semifinal race, Thrissur had nothing to lose, and it performed freely. It put up a robust defence, stored the main aim scorer Kervens Belfort on a decent leash, lower out the house for the opposite Calicut stars and even managed an early aim.

The aim got here off a throw-in, after which Thrissur’s Shamnad and Calicut’s Andres Nia rose excessive to satisfy the ball, but it surely was the previous who headed it in.

Thrissur ought to have completed with an even bigger margin, however its captain, Lucas Eduardo, missed a penalty together with his try hitting the fitting put up across the eightieth minute. The Calicut goalkeeper Vishal Joon, who had earned a yellow whereas bringing down Thrissur’s Alex Santos contained in the field earlier, was later despatched off with a second yellow after arguing with the referee. On the different finish, the Thrissur goalkeeper V.V. Pratheesh had an excellent day, pulling off numerous saves.

-Stan Rayan