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SPORTS

Sheetal, Ankita enter final
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, May 30
Sheetal Goutham beat top seed Sonal Phadke in three sets to cross swords with another fancied player Ankita Bhambri, seeded fifth in the tomorrow’s final of the $ 5000 ITF Women Tennis Tournament, which entered the penultimate day, at the tennis stadium, Sector 10, here today. Sheetal also made it to the doubles final in partnership with local girl Shruti Dhawan. They will now face Liza Pareira and Radhika Tulpule in doubles final.

Earlier this morning, Sonal Phadke, the star attraction of the meet, could not match the momentum of the fine game of Sheetal. Though Sonal captured the first set with ease, Sheetal’s neat volleys and calculated serves proved fatal for Sonal, who lost the second set. Again in the third set, Sheetal finally prevailed upon the Maratha girl and won at 7-5.

In the second singles semifinal, Delhi lass Ankita Bhambri who surprised fourth seed Shruti Dhawan last evening, today beat Archana Venkataraman in straight sets 6-1, 6-2.

In the first match of the doubles semifinal, Shruti and Sheetal were in total command of the game. It was Shruti who took her revenge of Wednesday defeat from Ankita by helping her partner in beating the combination of Ankita and Sonal in three sets. In the second doubles semifinal, Radhika Mandke and Samrita went down fighting to Liza and Radhika Tulpule in straight sets. The finals will be played tomorrow morning.

Results: all semifinals: singles — Sheetal Goutham b Sonal Phadke 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Ankita Bhambri b Archana Venkataraman 6-1, 6-2.

Doubles: Liza Pareira and Radhika Tulpule b Radhika Mandke and Samrita Sekhar 7-5, 6-1; Shruti Dhawan and Sheetal Goutham b Ankita Bhambri and Sonal Phadke 6-3, 2-6, 6-2.

Basketball meet

Government Model High School, Sector 26, and New Public School, Sector 18, bagged the girls’ and boys’ section title, respectively, in the Chandigarh Sub-Junior Basketball Tournament, which concluded at New Public School, Sector 18, here today. The four-day meet was organised by the Chandigarh Basketball Association.

In the finals played today, GMHS-26 eves beat Sacred Heart school, Sector 26, (18-5) with half-time score of 13-0, while New Public School, Sector 18, got the better of Moti Ram Arya Public School, Sector 27, (27-18).

The day belonged to Sanchi, who took the command of the game right from the beginning and was able to conquer her opponents with 14 points. Jaspreet supported her when she netted four baskets. From the losers side, Ashmita and Sana netted three and two points, respectively.

In the boys’ final, NPS-18 boys beat MRA-27 boys. The half-time score was as a close as 11-10 in favour of NPS-18.

Earlier in the morning, the trials to select the UT Sub-Junior team for the for the National Sub-Junior Basketball Meet were held.

YPS beat Beverly Club

Yadavindra Public School, SAS Nagar, which sent its cricket team for a tour of England has performed well in its month-long tour.

According to a school press note, it has sent its under-19 team to play against various cricket clubs in Lincolnshire at the invitation of the Scunthorpe Town Cricket Club. The team played seven matches in all, out of which it won five.

In the last match played last evening at East Yorkshire, YPS beat Beverly Cricket Club by 29 runs which was played at Norwood Park. YPS won the toss and elected to bat first. YPS boys scored 213 runs in 40 overs with loss of seven wickets. In reply, Beverly CC could make 184 runs with loss of eight wickets.

Harpreet Singh of YPS bagged three wickets for just 27 runs, while Bikramjit Bhullar, Amarpreet Nagi and Sukhmani Chahal made 57, 52 and 40 runs, respectively.

Hockey academy

As many as 20 hockey players have been adopted by Sanjay Public School, Sector 44. According to Mr T.R. Sethi, Director of the school, the players were given lessons today under a hockey workshop. He said like football, the school would now give emphasis on hockey. He said boys would be given free education, sports training, lodging and other facilities.

The selected boys are: Sandeep Singh, Shamsher Singh, Nirmal Singh, Ramanjit Singh, Jasbir Singh, Devinder Singh, Munish Kumar, Gurtejpreet Singh, Sarandeep Singh, Gurjinder Singh, Jaswant Singh, Jaspinder Singh, Harpreet Singh, Ajay Kumar, Baljeet Singh, Navneet Bakshi, Kanan Singh, Ramanpreet Singh, Vijay Shukla and Naminder Kumar.

Cricket meet

The AG, Punjab, has topped in Pool A, whereas Khalsa XI secured second place in the same pool of the VIth UT League-cum-Knockout Cricket Tournament, being organised by the UT Cricket Association. The other two teams of Pool B are the Leader’s Cricket Club followed by the Chetna Cricket Club.

The finals of the B division would be played between the Chandigarh Sports Club and Inde-Dutch XI at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, on June 2.

ADMINISTRATION

Auto theft cell to be set up in city
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 30
An Auto Theft Computer Cell (ATCC) is being set up in the city by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) in collaboration with the Chandigarh police, it is learnt. The cell will be able to furnish information on all stolen vehicles from across the country and will prove beneficial to those planning to purchase second-hand vehicles.

According to sources, officials of the NCRB from New Delhi visited the city yesterday and had discussions on the issue with the officiating UT IG, Mr Ajay Kashyap.

The city is a major centre for deals in second-hand vehicles, and police sources say there have been instances in the past when buyers of second -hand cars were duped by unscrupulous elements. They were sold stolen vehicles using forged documents, specially those registered in other states.

The ATCC will receive data from a central NCRB server, which will have nationwide information pertaining to stolen vehicles posted on it. Sources say that to confirm whether a vehicle is a stolen one, the engine number and chassis number of the vehicle needs to be fed into the system and the requisite information can be obtained.

The cell is expected to be set up adjacent to the Public Window near the entrance to police headquarters in Sector 9.

Some information about stolen vehicles is already available with the Chandigarh police, but is more or less localised. A Modus Operandi Branch (MOB) in the police headquarters has been compiling information about stolen vehicles, but its work is manual and therefore time-consuming and tedious. While all information about vehicles stolen within Chandigarh is more or less available with the MOB, very little information about vehicles stolen from other parts of the country is received by it.