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The Hindu
2 days ago
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- The Hindu
Indian sports wrap, July 13: India begins FIBA Women's Asia Cup Division B event with win over Kazakhstan
BASKETBALL FIBA Women's Asia Cup, Division B: India begins campaign for promotion with win over Kazakhstan India women's basketball team beat Kazakhstan 85-68 in its Group A opener of the FIBA Women's Asia Cup (Division B) in Shenzhen, China, on Sunday. Pushpa Senthil Kumar (23 points), Sreekala Rani (15 points) and Sathya Krishnamurthi (15 points) were the top scorers in India's victory. The competition, which concludes on July 20, has eight teams divided equally into two groups with the winner of the tournament set to be promoted to Division A. India has previously won the Division B title in 2017 when it was also the host. However, the team missed out on playing in Division A in 2023 and aims to find its way back. India's next match in Group A will be against Chinese Taipei on Monday, July 14, at 2PM IST. -Team Sportstar SHOOTING Lonato World Cup: Lakshay, Neeru fall short of Trap Mixed Team medal rounds India ended engagements at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun in Lonato after the pair of Lakshay Sheoran (22, 19, 25) and Neeru Dhanda (25, 24, 25), despite shooting a perfect third series, fell short of the Trap Mixed Team medal rounds. They totaled 140 out of a possible 150 in the qualifying round to finish 10th among 54 pairs. The second Indian pair of Zoravar Singh Sandhu (21, 23, 24) and Preeti Rajak (23, 24, 23) combined for a tally of 138 to finish in 22nd spot. While Neeru continued from her brilliant fourth-place finish in the women's trap a day earlier to miss just one target out of her 75, Lakshay had a blip in the second series, where he missed six, which eventually cost him a shot at a podium finish. Four teams—Australia, Great Britain, and both the Spanish teams—topped the qualifications with identical tallies of 143. The Indian pair of Kynan Chenai and Sabeera Haris had won a bronze in the Trap Mixed Team event at the previous Nicosia Shotgun World Cup. The event will be held for the first time in the Olympics at Los Angeles in 2028. -Team Sportstar Related Topics ISSF
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Business
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Top business prize for Gazette's senior reporter among outlet's 5 awards in SC contest
The South Carolina Daily Gazette staff consists of Editor Seanna Adcox and reporters Skylar Laird, Shaun Chornobroff and Jessica Holdman, as seen on the Statehouse steps in Columbia on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Photo by William Meacham/Special to the SC Daily Gazette) COLUMBIA — SC Daily Gazette senior reporter Jessica Holdman took top honors for business journalism at the South Carolina Press Association's annual awards ceremony Friday. Her awards were among five total won by the Gazette in its inaugural year. The nonprofit news outlet competed in Division A, the category for the state's largest daily newspapers. That means the Gazette was competing against colleagues with The Post and Courier, The State, and the Greenville News. Holdman won the Ken Baldwin Award for Excellence in Business Journalism for all daily news outlets in South Carolina as well as first place in business beat reporting for Division A. Reporter Skylar Laird received two Division A awards: second place in breaking news reporting and third place in education beat reporting. And contributing columnist Paul Hyde won second place for column writing. The annual contest awarded the state's best in journalism — including articles, photos, columns, editorials, and page layouts — published between mid-November 2023 and mid-November 2024. For the Gazette, however, entries covered the six months since it became a press association member. Winners of most categories were declared weeks ahead of the event. But the Ken Baldwin Award was among contests unannounced until the presentation Friday at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. The award, sponsored by the University of South Carolina's journalism school, is named in memory of Kenneth W. Baldwin Jr., a USC graduate and benefactor of financial journalism education. The former business editor died in 2022 at age 96. Contest judges said Holdman 'examined business and economic development matters broadly, including their history and possible future impact. 'Her reporting covers everything from the emerging issues related to lithium battery manufacturing to the future of South Carolina's once-dominating textile industry,' they wrote in explaining their choice. 'Her work is very well done and well-researched. But most of all her stories are interesting, appealing not only to business 'readers' but everyone.' The Baldwin award came with a $500 prize. Holdman's winning entries for her first-place business beat award included reports on emergency responders' preparations for lithium fires, the transformation of the state's textile industry, and a real estate developer's lucrative leasing arrangement with the state. Laird's award for breaking news involved her reporting on the Medical University of South Carolina's decision to end all gender-transition treatments — which provided answers to readers that MUSC hadn't provided its own patients at the time and ahead of other outlets — and the scrambling of LGBTQ advocates to connect patients with care elsewhere. Her award for education reporting involved students enrolled for state-paid K-12 scholarships in the program's first year, parents left in limbo after the state Supreme Court declared the private tuition payments illegal, and a surprisingly high number of 3- and 4-year-olds suspended from South Carolina preschools. In opinion writing, Hyde's winning columns advocated closing the 'Charleston loophole' as a memorial to the nine victims gunned down in a Charleston church in 2015, examined the legacy of the 1934 Bloody Thursday massacre of striking mill workers in Honea Path, and emphasized the importance of voting in state and local elections. What is the SC Daily Gazette? A free, online news outlet on a mission. The SC Daily Gazette launched on Nov. 14, 2023, as the 37th affiliate of States Newsroom, the nation's largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. It is an ad-free, online news outlet supported by grants and donations. The four-person newsroom consists of three founding staffers — Editor Seanna Adcox, Holdman, and Laird — and reporter Shaun Chornobroff, who joined in January. Our mission is to cover state government and officials and how their decisions affect people across the Palmetto State — and to provide that coverage for free to both readers and other news outlets to republish. While the Gazette doesn't print a newspaper, it offers a free subscription to emailed newsletters that arrive in inboxes six mornings a week. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
