Career-best 66 gives Gaurika 5-shot lead

Hyderabad: Gaurika Bishnoi got off to a flying start in the Hero women’s Pro golf tour with a career-best 6-under 66 at the Boulder Hills Golf & Country Club on Wednesday. It put her on top of the leaderboard. Gaurika was five clear of amateurs Sneha Singh and Jasmine Shekar along with pro Jyotsana Singh who all carded 1-under 71.
Leading scores (after 18 holes): 66: Gaurika Bishnoi; 71: Jyotsana Singh, Sneha Singh (A), Jasmine Shekar (A); 72: Ridhima Dilawari; 73: Jahanvi Bakshi, Anisha Agarwalla.
Sharkies, Tutoroot in SFs
Sharkies and Tutoroot from Pool B made it to the semifinals of the Hyderabad Premier Golf League. They will join King's Warriors and Swans, who topped Pool A, in the last four on February 11. In round 6 at the Boulder Hills Golf & Country Club on Wednesday, Tutoroot registered the highest score of the day with 194.96 points.
Cumulative score (Pool B): 1 Sharkies (1,013.87 points), 2 Tutoroot (1,011.88), 3 Origins (994.39), 4 N Square (984.58), 5 Team Mysa (983.66), 6 Bar Phir Par (971.35), 7 EHAM (962.86).
Hyderabad Chargers win
Hyderabad Chargers struggled past Faridabad 13-12 in the Club National baseball championship at HBCC grounds, Shamirpet.
Results: Famous Club (Pandey 3, Atul 3, M Ali, Amit, Vicky, Pankaj, Abhishek 2 each, Sanjay, Rahul, Ashwin) 19 bt Amaravati 0. Punjab Lions 10 (Chaitanya 3, Ramesh 2, Rishikesh, Sourabh, Mustakin, Vinayak, Akshay) bt Rhino Club 7 (Khannaiah 2, Gaurav, Divyansh, Yogesh, Javeed, Naveen). Hyderabad Chargers 13 (G Sanjay, Manikanta 3 each, Sai Santosh 2, Narsingh, Srikanth, Sandeep, Narender, T Sanjay) bt Faridabad 12 (Mandev 3, Shabaz, Satyam Rai, Sagar 2 each, Sunny, Ishan Vijan, Siddarth).