SPO-KHELO-WRAP

Hosts Maharashtra made a clean

sweep of all four gold medals in the Kho-Kho competition of

the Khelo India Youth Games here Thursday to maintain the pole

position in the medal's tally.

There were only four gold medals at stake Thursday and

Maharashtra grabbed them all, a media release said.

With its success in Kho-kho, Maharashtra now have a

total of 181 medals including 68 golds, 51 silver and 62

bronze.

Delhi are on the second spot, with 47 gold, 32 silver

and 44 bronze medals -- taking their total medal count to 123,

far behind Maharashtra.

Haryana, who are in the third position have 38 gold,

36 silver and 38 bronze for a total of 112 medals, the release

added.

Meanwhile, Haryana reached three of the four finals of

the Kabaddi competition.

Meanwhile, in tennis third seed S Manish of Tamil Nadu

stayed on course for the gold medal by reaching the final of

boys U-21 singles.

He overcame Nitin Sinha of West Bengal 6-3, 6-2.

Manish will now take on unseeded Dhruv Sunish of

Maharashtra, who upset fourth seed Paramveer Bajwa of

Chandigarh in the other semi-final.

Dhruv beat Bajwa 6-4, 6-2.