Chennai won the under-19 and under-14 titles, while host Ernakulam walked away with the under-17 honours as the team events of the 46th KVS National inter-school girls’ badminton championship ended at the Rajiv Gandhi indoor stadium here on Wednesday.
THE RESULTS: Team, finals:
Under-14: Chennai bt Hyderabad 2-0 (S. Bala bt G. Poojitha 15-6, 15-8; Nikitha & Bala bt Poojitha & S. Swathi 15-5, 15-6).
Under-17: Ernakulam bt Dehradun 2-0 (Varsha Venkitesh bt Vigya Koushal 15-8, 15-5; Varsha & Smrithi Anil bt Ragasree Garg & Divyanshi Sharma 15-13, 15-11).
Under-19: Chennai bt Ernakulam 2-1 (Divina lost to Suhana Sajid 4-15, 1-15; B. Madhumitha & Niteesha Rajesh bt Suhana Sajid & U.K. Bhavya 15-8, 13-15, 15-13; Madhumitha bt Maria Karen 15-0, 15-7).

QUARTERFINALISTS SPOTTED

In the basketball event at Thiruvananthapuram, the quarterfinalists were spotted in both under-14 and under-19 sections.
Chennai, Jammu & Kashmir, Ernakulam, Bhopal, Dehradun, Bengaluru and Lucknow qualified for the quarterfinals in the under-19 category. In the under-14 category, Ernakulam, Dehradun, Bengaluru, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai moved into the quarterfinals.
THE RESULTS (league):
Under-19: Chennai 27 (Chaitanya 13) bt Jammu & Kashmir 24; Jammu & Kashmir 22 (Jaspreet Kaur 11) bt Gurgaon 20; Ernakulam 21 bt Jabalpur 9; Chennai 25 (Navina Durai 11) bt Tinsukia 2; Hyderabad 29 (Geethika 13) bt Gurgaon 8; Ernakulam 32 bt Ahmedabad 15; Bhopal 52 (Anjali 14, Samiksha 10) bt Chandigarh 32 (Gunjan Varma 21); Bhopal 44 (Akansha 19, Anjali 11) bt Jabalpur 15; Bengaluru 32 bt Varanasi 9; Jaipur 33 (Monikha 11) bt Mumbai 32 (Vrushi 11, Chandini 10); Bengaluru 32 (Ruth 14) bt Mumbai 14; Lucknow 25 (Anishka 10) bt Delhi 14; Kolkata 20 bt Ranchi 14; Guwahati 19 (Pushpanjali 10) bt Agra 16; Jabalpur 36 (Khushi Kalare 10) bt Ahmedabad 32 (Mahima 10).
Under-14: Ernakulam 28 (Devi Santosh 11) bt Jaipur 14, Bengaluru bt Mumbai 16-14; Hyderabad 8 bt Ranchi 1; Chandigarh 20 bt Chennai 0.