Wednesday,
November 27, 2002, Chandigarh, India |
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Blue logo for GMCH-32 ambulances Chandigarh, November 26 |
Roopsiran, Jannesh for title clash Chandigarh, November 26 The results of today’s matches are: Boys (under-12 quarterfinal): Chetanya Verma b Parul Verma 6-0, Siddharth Singh b Gurmohit Singh 6-4, Gurinder Singh b Anmol Ladhar 6-3, Amit Chauhan b Akshat Joshi 6-4; girls (under 10- semifinal): Roopsiran Rihal b Pavit Grewal 7-1, Jannesh Kaur b Divya Joshi 7-1, boys (under-10 second round): Garry Amor Singh b Abhay Raj Puniha 6-0, Raghav Signal and Jaiveer Singh — walkover.
Football meet The 14th Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Football Tournament involving prominent teams such as Garhwal Rifles, BEG, Roorkee, JCT Academy, Phagwara, DFA, Hisar, DFA, Yamunanagar, NIS, Patiala,14th GTC, Subathu, Chandigarh XI, DFA, Solan, Shimla Youngs among others will kick off tomorrow at Railway grounds, Kalka, near here. The inaugural tie will be played at 11 am. The finals will be held on December 1.
Cricket tourney DAV School ‘A’ will take on Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, in the final to be held tomorrow of the UT Inter-School Cricket Tournament for Shivalik Trophy played here today at DAV Senior Secondary School grounds. In the semifinal today, DAV ‘A’ team had a narrow win over DAV ‘B’ team.
Ankit wins Ankit created a flutter when he overpowered third seed Gagan 3-0 with scores being 48-37, 62-49, 42-40 in the junior snooker section of the XVIIth Haryana State Senior and Junior Billiards and Snooker Championships played here today at Panchkula. In other matches of the same category, Rajeev Sharma defeated Deepak 52-45,19-53, 52-19, 23-52, 54-26.
Maninder in quarterfinals Maninder Sandhu of Chandigarh entered the quarterfinals of the under-13 section of the 59th Western India Open Squash Championship. As per reports reaching here, he beat Zahan Dastur (Mumbai) in a revengeful tie he was eagerly awaiting since losing to Zahan in the same event last year. Maninder picked the first game 9-5, and maintained his focus and energy level in the next game winning it 9-3. The third game saw Zahan put up a brave fight but besides forcing a couple of errors, could not contain a steady barrage of tight hard ‘length’ shots to the back- court mixed cleverly with cheeky drops. He won 9-6. Maninder, however, lost to Vikram Malhotra (Mumbai) 9-1, 9-0, 9-1 in the under-15 section. Another city lad Harinder Sandhu got a walkover from Jihan Advani in the under-15 section, while Amitoj Inder Singh of Chandigarh lost to Vijay Jhangra (RIMC) 9-6, 4-9, 9-1, 4-9, 0-9 in the professional section. Harinder will meet Vikram Malhotra (Mumbai) in the under-17 quarterfinal tomorrow.
Sports programme The UT Sports Department today organised a special sports programme to improve upon the playing conditions in the rural schools of the city. The programme under the ‘Rural Area Sports Scheme’ of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, was held today at Government Senior Secondary School, Dhanas. The students of the Guru Harkishan Public School, Sector 38, undertook the job to update the existing sports fields of football, handball, kho-kho, kabaddi and volleyball in the school. A team of officials of the UT Sports Department led by Mr K.S. Bharti, in charge, Youth Affairs and Sports, were also present on the occasion.
Bronze for Dr Jasjit Dr Jasjit Singh bagged bronze medal in the singles event in the All-India Civil Services Tennis Tournament held at Indore from November 18 to 25. Dr Jasjit, a Senior Medical Officer with the Punjab Raj Bhavan, outplayed D Chandrasekhar of Andhra Pradesh 6-2, 6-1 in the semi-final. More than 100 players from the various parts of the country took part in this meet.
SGGS College win title SGGS College, Sector 26, Chandigarh, clinched the overall championship in the Panjab University Inter-College
Weightlifting Championship held here today on the PU campus. Iqbal Singh of DAV College, Sector10, Chandigarh, was adjudged ‘Mr Panjab University’ 2002-2003 in the Panjab University Inter-College Best Physique meet held today. DAV College was also declared overall champion in this meet. |
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