This weekend’s sports agenda is presented, once again, with an intense and varied competitive activity for athletes and clubs from Baena who, on this occasion, have their main focuses of attention far from Baena, as is the case of the competitions that will be played in badminton, swimming, petanque and off-road cycling, in addition to the different league commitments in table tennis, indoor soccer, soccer, 7-a-side soccer and handball.
For the Baena Badminton Club this weekend there are two open fronts, one at the national level and the other regional. On the one hand, in the ‘Mireia Belmonte’ pavilion in the Murcian town of Las Torres de Cotillas, the Baenense players Teresa Cabello and Fernando Molina compete in the IX National Senior Master, organized by the Spanish Badminton Federation and the Higher Sports Council, which will have a total of 122 participants from 40 clubs throughout the country.
Teresa Cabello will play in the women’s singles team of category A, in addition to the mixed doubles with Fernando Molina and the women’s doubles with Mª Isabel Sáez, from the host club; while Fernando Molina will also play in the men’s B2 individual team.
On the other hand, in the Malaga town of Villanueva de la Concepción, the Andalusian Prebase Championship is held, in which the promising Baenenses, María Mérida, compete in the individual under-13 category and in the mixed under-15 doubles with her brother. Rafa Mérida who also competes in the individual under-15 team. Additionally, in the men’s under-13 category, Juanjo Lastres and Mario Castillo compete in the individual team and are also a couple in the doubles team.
There is also a double event this weekend for the Baena Swimming Club which, on the one hand, competes with five swimmers – Irene Amo, Isabel Ortiz, Alejandra Santano, Álvaro Luque and Francisco Javier Santano – in the first timing of the Zonal Phase Western of the Andalusian Junior and Absolute Championships that are held in the Aira pool in Córdoba with 225 swimmers from 19 clubs, and in Granada, Carmen Mª Castilla from Baen competes in the Andalusian University Championship representing the University of Córdoba.
In petanque, the day takes us to the Teatinos neighborhood of the capital of Malaga, where three players from the Baenense Petanca Club, the seniors Natalio Torres and Manuel De las Morenas and the junior, Junior Moral, compete between Saturday and Sunday in the Petanque Championship. Andalucía Individual, after achieving classification in the previous phase held at the beginning of the year.
And in off-road cycling, there are also two focuses of attention, because in Rute the fourth test of the IX Provincial Circuit ‘Diputación de Córdoba’ is held with the participation in the male cadet category of Carlos Tienda and in the female children’s category of Elena Tienda and Elena Pavón, in addition to the participation of a team of five cyclists from CD LandBike Baena in the Huex Extrema, a very tough 160 km test between Huelva and the town of Aracena, which is completed with another test, the Huex Marathon of 50 km between towns of El Campillo and Aracena.
Regarding the league commitments of the Baenense teams, this weekend there are several very important matches in this final stretch of the season. Thus, on the 17th day of the 1st Andalusian youth futsal division, Ciudad de Baena (9th/17 points) after losing in a painful way 2-6 in the ‘Juan Carlos I’ pavilion against the Sevillian team of CD Salesianos Trinidad (5th/23 pts), visits the ‘Elena Benítez’ Pavilion in Marbella on Sunday (12:00 p.m.) where they will face, in a very complicated duel, ADJ San Pedro de Alcántara (2nd/32 pts) who come from tie at three on the Albolote court (3rd/30 pts) and they have only lost one game this season against the leader, Atlético Mengíbar (1st/39 pts), although in the first round match the duel between Baenenses and Malaga in the ‘Juan Carlos I’ pavilion it ended in a 1-1 tie.
On matchday 20 of the Andalusian Football League for those over 18 years of age, this weekend UD San Francisco plays at home (5th/33 points) after losing by the minimum 1-0 in its visit to the leader Veteranos de Aguilar (1st/41 pts) and practically say goodbye to their chances of fighting to be champion, they receive another candidate for the title on Saturday at 5:00 p.m., Veteranos de Fernán Núñez (2nd/39 pts) who have just won 1- 3 to Peña Pontana 11th/8 (pts) and that in the first round they beat ‘Sanfran’ 3-1 on their field.
For its part, CA Lastres Pérez (7th/26 points), which last Saturday tied 3-3 at home with Cañada del Rabadán (9th/24 points), visits the La Rambla Veterans field (10th/16 points) who come of losing 3-0 against San Jorge (6th/29 points). In the first round match, the Baenenses won their duel 3-0.
And on matchday 12 in Group V of the Andalusian Superdivision of table tennis, Caja Rural de Baena, leader of the group (1st/25 points) after their important 1-5 victory on the court of the Sevillians of TM San José B (3rd/19 points) receives Rute TM B (7th/10 points) on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. at the Baena Exhibition and Congress Center (7th/10 points), who have just lost 1-5 with Córdoba 6 to 8 B ( 6th/11 pts) and those who already won by a resounding 0-6 in the first round match.
2024-03-15 12:13:16
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