Taarushi Yadav of army Public school ( Colaba), the daughter of an army officer, displayed strong will power and fighting spirit to quell the challenge from Shariva Mandlik of Bombay scottish ( Mahim). Taarushi snatched a tense 15- 13 victory in a girl's U- 14 singles round- of- 32 match of the CCi- Mssa inter- school badminton tournament at the CCi Courts on saturday.

Both Taarushi and Shariva played aggressively and were involved in a grueling tussle that witnessed some exciting rallies. There was not much to separate the two as the scores ran close and the lead changed hands quite a few times till 12- all in the race to 15 points.