{"id":79347,"date":"2019-09-20T00:50:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=79347"},"modified":"2019-09-20T00:50:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:20:44","slug":"arunachal-bag-bronze-on-day-one-of-nez-badminton-cship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/20\/arunachal-bag-bronze-on-day-one-of-nez-badminton-cship\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachal bag bronze on day one of NEZ Badminton C&#8217;ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>GANGTOK, Sep 19:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh bagged the bronze medal on the opening day of the North East Zone [NEZ] Inter-State Badminton Championship in the team event here in Sikkim on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe junior mixed team settled for the bronze after it went down fighting 1-3 to Manipur in the semifinals.<br \/>\nIn the first match, Raj Thapa and Napi Tayam lost 5-21, 9-21 to K Priya Devi and M Meiraba Luwang in the mixed doubles. Laa Tukum restored the parity with a win against Bidyasagar Salam in the boys&#8217; singles [21-14, 21-18].<br \/>\nHowever, Arunachal lost the remaining matches &#8211; the girls&#8217; singles and the boys&#8217; doubles &#8211; and settled for the bronze.<br \/>\nWhile Dolma Tamang lost 14-21, 9-21 to Ksh Maheshwari Devi in the girls&#8217; singles, the duo of Sonam Tamang and Biki Lakai went down 13-21 and 7-21 in the boys&#8217; doubles.<br \/>\nThe junior team reached the semifinal, beating Sikkim 3-0.<br \/>\nArunachal crashed out the senior mixed team event in the quarterfinal round, losing 0-3 to Assam.<br \/>\nWhile Laa Talar lost 11-21, 19-21 to Orijit Chaliha in the men&#8217;s singles, Laa Yajum was beaten by Ashmita Chaliha 21-19, 21-7.<br \/>\nThe pair of Raja Gupta and Akshay Raito was beaten by Sangram Chutia and Iman Sonowal 21-16, 21-18.<br \/>\nThe individual events will begin on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GANGTOK, Sep 19: Arunachal Pradesh bagged the bronze medal on the opening day of the North East Zone [NEZ] Inter-State Badminton Championship in the team event here in Sikkim on Thursday. The junior mixed team settled for the bronze after it went down fighting 1-3 to Manipur in the semifinals. In the first match, Raj [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}