Railways win team championship

Visakhapatnam: Railways won the team championship in the DRM Cup boxing tournament, which concluded at the Railway Sports Complex here on Saturday. N Santosh Kumar (Railways) was declared the best boxer. P Appala Raju received the most promising boxer award. A Punyavathi of Railways was declared as the best woman boxer. DRM Anup Satpathy gave away the trophies and prizes.
Results (finals): Men: Minimum weight: D Rakesh Reddy (Vizianagaram) bt M Sunil (Srikakulam).Fly: Y Prabhu Das (Visakhapatnam) bt G Pavan Kumar ( EG). Bantam: P Appala Raju (VSP) bt M Srinu ( SAI). Feather: K Syam Kumar (Railways) bt P Venkat (Srikakulam). Light: P Karthik Kumar (EG) bt K Ganesh (SKLM). Light welter: M Venkatesh (Rlys) bt V. Ramana (SKLM). Welter: N. Santhosh Kumar (Rlys) bt D. Sandeep (VSP). Light middle: Sai Prabhas (VSP) bt Praveen Kumar (EG). Middle: Sondu Rao (Rlys) bt D. Sai Teja (VSP). Light heavy: Sk. Ali (Rlys) bt B. Arun Kumar (RPF). Cruiser: B. Chandan Sai (VSP) bt M Atchut (VZM). Heavy: S Vinodh (VSP) bt D Ravi (VZM). Super heavy: KY Kiran (VSP) bt Govind Raju (RPF).Women: Feather: A Punyavathi (Rlys) bt G Jyothi (VSP). Light: Monika Saun (Rlys) bt Jennifer (VSP). Heavy: Swapna Priya (Rlys) bt Sri Chandana (VSP).
Young India down ASM CC
Young India XI downed ASM CC by four runs and MBP ‘A’ beat KKCA by 70 runs in the KDCA ‘B’ division league in Vijayawada.
Brief scores: Young India XI 120/6 in 16 overs (P Naveen 3/20) bt ASM CC 116/7 in 16 overs (B Swamy 44, N Srinu 28; M Vamsi 3/28). MBP ‘A’ 187/5 in 20 overs (G Srinivas 78, N Rambabu 38) bt KKCA 117/5 in 20 overs (Ch Amith 32, T Mahesh 28).
Three Andhra girls for Junior India hockey camp
Three girls from Hockey Andhra Pradesh, including two from Hockey Visakhapatnam, were selected for the junior India hockey coaching camp to be held at SAI Centre, Bengaluru from January 17 to 29. Hockey India would select players from this camp for the TOPS NCOE to be held at Bengaluru. While M Bhavani and K Ramya are from Vizag, Bharani Santhram is from Anantapur.