Kalighat beat Aikya Sammilani by 17 runs on Monday to make the CAB league play-off final against Eastern Railway. Chasing 174, Aikya fell to the guiles of Arup Tripathi who took six for 31. Kalighat will take on Eastern Railway in the final.
Brief scores: Kalighat 173. Aikya Sammilani 154 (Sushil Sikaria 47; Arup Tripathi 6/31). Aikya Sammilani won by 19 runs.
Raju Majhi and Sampurna Chowdhury will lead the Bengal boys and girls in the 56th junior national basketball meet to be held in Pondicherry from Saturday to May 28.
THE SQUADS
Boys: Raju Majhi (captain), Suparno Karmakar, Gulam Subhani, Chandan Tiwari, Harkamal Singh, Arup Singh, Rajeev Bhagat, Arif Hossain Molla, Ajay Sahu, Saubhik Das, Subhajit Choudhury, Sandeep Prayapati. Coach: Biswajit Das.
Girls: Sampurna Chowdhury (captain), Atreyee Nandy, Debasmita Guha, Susmita Laha, Aparna Bhagat, Varsha Mishra, Sukumari Oraon, Chandu Das, Priyanka Kumari, Poushali Dutta, Rituparna Dey, Rima Mondal. Coach: Sangeet Chatterjee.
Netajinagar College (Day) trounced Aghor Kamini 6-1 on Monday to enter the last eight of the Duckback Elliott Challenge Shield.
Holders South Western Air Command (SWAC) will take on Western Air Command (WAC) in the final of the Air Force football meet in Barrackpore on Tuesday. In the semis, SWAC beat Eastern Air Command (EAC) via sudden-death while WAC ousted Training Command (TC) 3-0.
Agomoni Mitra and Sayantika Kundu advanced to the women?s singles final of the all-Bengal Desire table tennis meet on Monday. While Agomoni beat Rajashree Sha 11-9, 11-5, 14-12, 6-11, 9-11, 11-6, Sayantika ousted Madhumita Guin 11-8, 12-10, 15-13, 12-10. The finals, scheduled on Monday itself, had to be put off due to a power cut and will now be held on May 25.
OTHER RESULTS
Sub-jr boys: Priyobrata Das bt Anirban Sinha Roy 9-11, 11-5, 7-11, 11-8, 7-11, 11-9, 11-9; Anubhav Kundu bt Biswadeep Bhattacharya 11-5, 11-7, 5-11, 9-11, 12-10, 11-8. Boys: Dipanjan Chowdhury bt Kaushik Das 7-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-9, 11-9; Sumit Kundu bt Pritam Bose 9-11, 11-8, 11-2, 8-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-9.
FOOTBALL: Under-19 NFL in Barasat.
HOCKEY: Lagden Shield and Lakshmibilash Cup finals at BHA ground from 2.30 pm.
