Brace by Lakra

GWALIOR: Sandeep K. Lakra scored twice to help Municipal College (Rourkela) beat Gurukul Kangri University (Haridwar) 3-2 and book a berth in the quarterfinals of the 16th SAIL Golden Jubilee Nehru champion colleges hockey tournament at the Railway Stadium here on Wednesday.

Deepak Kullu netted the other goal for the Rourkela outfit. Jwakim Minz and Somesh K. Swain were the scorers for Kangri University, which has already made the quarterfinals.

In another match, LNUPE Gwalior drew with Lyallpur Khalsa College (Jalandhar) 1-1. Vivek Rekhola found the target for LNUPE while Kamaldeep Singh was the scorer for Lyallpur College. Both teams have qualified for the quarterfinals.
Four share lead

Tough weather condition made scoring difficult as four players shared lead after the second round of the LG Noida Open Amateur tournament at the Noida Golf Club in Noida on Wednesday.

Abhishek Jha, Jasjeet Singh and Karan Vasudeva joined overnight leader Arshdeep Tiwana at the top as the four totalled an identical one-over 145 after the second round.

The scores:

Abhishek Jha (72, 73), Arshdeep Tiwana (67, 78), Jasjeet Singh (73, 72) and Karan Vasudeva (74, 71) 145.

Biren Dey (73, 73) and Pranav Kaul (71, 75) 146.

L. Selvadurai (70, 77) and Rahul Bajaj (72, 75) 147.

Manav Das (74, 74) and Saurabh Bahuguna (71, 77) 148.

Abhinav Lohan (71, 78), Aditya Bhandarkar (74, 75) and Wasim Khan (74, 75) 149.

Akshay Sharma (78, 72) and Rashid Khan (74, 76) 150.