SPORTS

Chetna, Namisha reign supreme
Our Sports reporter

Chandigarh, September 13
Chetna and Namisha both had to toil hard to beat their respective opponents in three gruelling games in the girls under-13 singles tie on the opening day of the 15th Chandigarh state badminton championship here today at the badminton hall, Sector 42. Chetna outplayed Neha 11-1, 2-11, 11-8, while Namisha got the better of Arshya 13-1,11-9,13-10.

Earlier, the four-day meet was inaugurated by Mr Ravinder Talwar, secretary general of the Chandigarh Olympic Association.

Mr D.K. Mukerjee, founder of the association, also spoke on the occasion. Later, Mr M.C. Sethi, president, announced big incentives for those who did well in the tournament.

Results: men: Pankaj Nathani b Vikas Kundu 15-3,15-7; Naresh Kundu b Manu Jain 15-2,15-5; Aakash Sethi b Paras 12-15, 15-2, 15-5. boys: under 19: Vikas Kundu b Amit Sharma 15-1,15-1; Vinay b Jatin Gupta 15-1,15-0; Vishesh b Pradeep 15-10,15-3; Puneet b Anil Kumar 15-2,15-9. under-16: Sargun Deep b Apoorva 15-1,15-5; Chetan b Nikhil 15-0, 15-0; Sunil b Shavinder 15-0,15-2.

Under-13: Aman Sethi b Abhinav 15-2,15-2; Ravinder b Subhash 17-15,15-8; Tarush b Sanyam 15-0,15-4; Tarush b Kushal 15-9,15-11; Askaram b Karan 15-4,15-3; Mahip b Kapil 15-1,15-4; Manish Goyal b Vikas Bansal 15-11,15-2; Gurvin b Kailash 15-1,15-1; Mohit b Piyush 15-6,15-0; Anish b Ajay 15-8,15-0; Rishab b Ankit 15-0,15-0; Rizul b Akshay 15-2,15-10.

Under-10: Karan b Nipun 15-3, 15-4; Akleshwar b Vinax 15-3,15-1; Sahil Karan 15-7,13-15,15-9; Rishab b Akleshwar 15-0,15-2; Deepak b Tarun 15-6,15-10;

Girls: Under-16: Neha b Karishma 11-0,11-0; Purnica b Mehak 11-1,11-1; Astha b Hundeep 15-1,15-0; Rakhee b Pamel 11-9,11-8; Harleen b Manisha 11-0,11-1.

Under-13: Akriti b Anita 11-0,11-0; Nisha b Sunita 11-2,11-0; Lubna b Japneet 11-6,12-10; Chetna b Neha 11-1, 2-11, 11-8; Japjot b Divya 11-9,11-8; Namisha b Arshya 13-10,11-9,13-10.

Under-10: Japneet b Shreya 11-1,11-0; and Varinda b Diksha 12-11,11-7.

Rowing teams

Sukhman has been selected by the Chandigarh Rowing Association in the single scull section for girls to represent UT in the 24th Junior National Rowing championship to be held at Hyderabad from October14 to 20. A nine-member boys rowing team was also selected on the basis of the Chandigarh State Junior Rowing Championship, which was held today at Sukhna Lake.

The boys team: single scull: Sishan Pal; double scull: Naveen Singh and Sanjay Kumar; coxless pairs: Gaurav Sharma and Ravi; coxless fours: Ravi, Gaurav Sharma, Sanjay Kumar and Manpratap Singh.

Hunt for fastest bowler

The second leg of the India’s search for fastest bowler through the ESPN will be held in Chandigarh on September 18 and 19 at the grounds of DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8. The hunt, which began in Delhi on September 13, will cover 10 cities all over the country. International Marketing Group (IMG) is organising the event, while Mahindra and Mahindra are the title sponsors.

The event has been named “Scorpio Speedster”. Players above 16 years of age are eligible to take part in the event. The event will be held in the city for two days from 4 pm to 10 pm. Each participant will be allowed to bowl thrice after warming up.

Participants with five fastest deliveries will compete for the city’s winner and runner-up awards in each city. The winner from each city and four wild cards chosen on “next fastest” basis will travel to Mumbai to compete in grand national final to be held on November 21, which will be telecast on the ESPN. In the grand final, each contestant will bowl six balls and the fastest two will bowl off another four deliveries to compete for the title of the fastest bowler in India.

The fastest bowler will receive a cash prize of Rs 75,000 and get a chance to attend the Australian Institute of Sport Cricket Academy. The winner and the runner-up in each city will be awarded with Rs 8,000 and Rs 2,000, respectively. After Chandigarh, the contest will move on to Lucknow on September 24 and 25, Hyderabad on October 3 and 4, Chennai on October 11 and 12, Bangalore on October 16 and 17, Kolkata on October 29 and 30, Ahmedabad on November 8 and 9, Pune on November 13 and 14 and finally to Mumbai on November 19 and 20.

Boxing tournament

Government Model High School, Sector 20-D here won medals in different age group at inter school boxing and wrestling tournament. The tournament was organised by the Education Department. Medal winner in Boxing: Sunil Chaudhery, silver, (under 19) Satish Sharma, gold, (under-17) Sunil Kumar, gold, (under-17) Bittu, bronze, (under-17) Munish, bronze, (under-17) Pawan, bronze, (under-17) Ravi, bronze, (under-17) and Surinder, silver, (under-14).

Medal winners in Wrestling: Joginder, bronze, (under-14) and Arjun, bronze, under-17 years.

P’kula declared winners after tie

Hosts Panchkula were declared winners against Chandigarh on spin of coin after the scores and net run rate were tied between the two teams after 35 overs of play in the Haryana State Inter-District Under 19 Cricket Tournament played here last evening at the JR Institute of Cricket Technology, Barwala, near Panchkula.

Earlier, Chandigarh won the toss and opted to bat first. They were all out for 138 runs in 34.3 overs. Tejwinder Gill scored 44 runs, followed by Pritpal who made 19 runs. Sukhwinder and Sunny Sharma claimed three wickets each by conceding 19 and 17 runs, respectively. Karandeep bagged two wickets for 24 runs.

In reply, Panchkula achieved the target for the loss of nine wickets in 35 overs. Sunny Sharma again proved to be the star player hammering 34 runs. Vishal Goel scored 16 runs, while Arvind Rawat 17 runs. Pritpal claimed five wickets for 21 runs.

Judo championship

Sanjay Public Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, will host the City Public School’s Judo Championship on September 13 and 14 for boys and girls in under-14 and under-18 sections. Weigh in for the categories will be done on September 13 at 4 pm and opening ceremony will be held on September 14 at 9 am. The selected judokas will participate in the Public Schools National Judo Championship to be held in Shimla from September 22 to 24.

Hazari, Parvesh in semis

Patiala: Javed Hazari and Parvesh Kumar reached the semifinals of the Naresh Memorial Patiala District Lawn Tennis Championship in the under-18 age category that commenced at the Rajindera Gymkhana Club here today.

Javed Hazari downed Gaurav Sharma 8-6, while Parvesh Kumar beat Karan Sidhu by the same margin to book berths in the last four stage. The other two players who reached the semifinals were Kuldip Chugh and Amandeep Singh. Kuldip got the better of Maneshwar 8-2, while Amandeep Singh too had an easy win against Amriteshwar downing him 8-3.

In the under-14 age group, Sourav Sharma, Inderjot Singh, Aneet Singh, Ketan Gupta, Karan Singh and Arjun Sehgal reached the third round. In the under-12 category, Ketan Gupta, Ajtab Singh, Amanjeet Singh, Lakshaya Mittal, Aneet Singh, Jas Saheb and Arjun Sehgal were the players who sailed into the third round.

Football meet

The 28th edition of the All-India Gurdarshan Memorial Football Championship will get under way at the Ripudaman College grounds, Nabha, near here, from October 5 to 13.

Top clubs of the country, including star-studded JCT mills, Phagwara, RCF, Kapurthala, Union Club, Yamunanagar, CRPF and Punjab Police, have confirmed their participation in the championship. The tournament carries a cash award of Rs 31,000 for the winners and Rs 21, 000 for the runners-up.

Teams desirous of taking part in the meet may contact the organising secretary, Mr Jagdish Bhatia, at State Bank of Patiala, main branch, Nabha.

ADMINISTRATION

Admn to hand over 3 sectors to MC
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 13
Three newly developed sectors in the city are being transferred to the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh. The developed sectors — Sectors 48, 49 and 61 — are located along the border with SAS Nagar.

This is being done despite the fact that the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh has been crying for more funds to maintain sectors under its jurisdiction.

A number of meetings between the officers of the administration, housing board and corporation have been held to work out the modalities before the transfer.

Once the new sectors developed by the Chandigarh Housing Board under Phase III of the integrated development plan were handed over to the corporation, the maintenance and administrative control would be the responsibility of the corporation.

As per the provisions of the Punjab Municipal Act as applicable to the Chandigarh, councillors would have to be elected from the new areas.

A senior officer of the engineering wing of the corporation said several rounds of discussion had already been held on the subject.

Transfer of new areas involves a lot of exercise like status of the roads, length of the roads and other basic amenities.

It is mandatory under the Municipal Act to transfer the developed areas to a civic body.

When these sectors were to be developed, the administration had vouched to take care for the first five years.

The period of five years elapses in 2003 for Sectors 48 and 49 and for Sector 61 the period ended in 2002.