National snooker: Haria in semifinal league

Pune, Jan 15 (IANS) Gujarat's Dhvaj Haria, who won the sub-junior billiards crown, entered the semifinal league of the junior billiards event along with Ketan Chawla (Madhya Pradesh), Malkeet Singh (Uttar Pradesh) and Himanshu Jain (Andhra Pradesh) in the National Snooker and Billiards championships here Sunday.

Haria scored a 569-403 win over Delhi's Laxman Rawat, while Chawla beat Tamil Nadu's Peter Paul 690-387, Malkeet Singh also put out another TN player B Jagadish 466-329 and Jain defeated Utsav Ramani of Gujarat 468-35 in the quarterfinals.

The results:

Sub-junior snooker (3rd Round): Ashutosh Padhy (Ors) bt Nikhil Pise (Kar) 2-1; Sahil Nayyar (PUN) bt Suraj Singh (Kar) 2-0; Jaiveer Dhingra (Mah) bt Bhanu Sharma (Raj) 2-0; Yash Deshpande (Mah) bt Utsav Ramani (Guj) 2-1; Ishpreet Singh Chada (Mah) bt Yash Bansal (MP) 2-0; Dhvaj Haria (Guj) bt Arjun Mehta (Kar) 2-0.

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