SPORTS

International School, ESIC emerge soccer champions
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, May 3
International Sports School, Geetanjali defeated Mount St. Mary’s School, Delhi Cantonment 5-1 in the final of the third Five-a-Side Ambuja Cup Football Tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Monday.

In a one-sided match, Mount St. Mary’s forged ahead in the 25th minute through Luv Malik, Qis Rashidi equalised for International three minutes later.

Thereafter, International scored goals at regular intervals to subdue St. Mary’s. Babak Sepheri put them in the lead in the 30th minute, while Qis Rashidi, Emal Halani and Masood Saeed scored the other three goals in the 33rd, 38th and 39th minutes, respectively.

In the four-team round-robin league institutional contest, Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) scored a narrow 6-5 victory against Food Corporation of India (FCI), North Zone, to top the group and lift the title. FCI, Headquarters pipped North Zone on a better goal difference to take the second place.

Pushpender Kundu (three goals, no hattrick), Ram Singh (2) and Surinder Bisht were the marksmen for ESIC. Trilok Bisht (2), Bhupender Rawat (2) and Joginder Rawat got the goals for FCI.

The DSA Summer Coaching Camp for Under-14 and Under-16 will be held at the Ambedkar Stadium from May 5 in the morning between 8 and 10 am.

Delhi University to hold Sports Quiz
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New Delhi, May 3
The Delhi University Sports Council (DUSC) will organise a series of programmes, including a Sports Quiz, as a precursor to the Olympic Games 2004 to be held in Athens.

Delhi University deputy director of sports Dr S. N. Gupta said that for the Sports Quiz, teams comprising two members each will be allowed to represent their respective colleges. Well-known television and radio commentator and sports journalist Novy Kapadia will moderate the Sports Quiz on May 5 at 10 am.

Dr Gupta said a one-day seminar will be held on Tuesday at the Sports Council conference hall, followed by an on-the-spot-essay competition on May 7 and a mock relay at the University sports ground on May 5.

The one-day seminar on the topic “Olympic Games and Positive Health Promotion” will have the main theme papers on ‘Smoking as a Health Hazard’, ‘The Doping Game” and ‘Social Health and Competitive Sports’.

Dr Gupta said colleges can send as many entries as they want for the essay competition. He said only bonafide students of the University will be allowed to participate in the quiz and the essay competitions. Both the contests will carry cash prizes of Rs 10,000, Rs 8,000 and Rs 6,000 respectively for the first three finishers.

Prominent sportspersons like Vikram Bisht (badminton), H. L. Suri (1964 Olympic marathon), Richa Sharma (swimming) and Gautam Gambhir (cricket) will be the guests of honour.

Karan Khanna hits ton in Sonnet’s title win
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New Delhi, May 3
Karan Khanna hit a century (124, 10x4, 2x6) and Karan Rai slammed a half-century as Sonnet Club beat Hansraj Model School, Punjabi Bagh by 51 runs in the title clash of the inaugural Achrekar Under-15 Cricket Tournament at the Paschim Vihar ground.

Karan Rai, who played an all-round role, was adjudged the man of the match as well as the best batsman.

The awards were distributed by Dronacharya coach Ramakant Achrekar and umpire Desh Raj. Sahil Kher was named the player of the tournament while Akhil Goyal got the best bowler award.

Scores: Sonnet: 333 for 6 in 50 overs (Rohan Tuteja 76, Parteek Suneja 25, Karan Choudhary 3 for 65, Anmol Sharma 2 for 50).

Hansraj School: 282 all out in 48.2 overs (Anmol Sharma 69, Vineet Rana 48, Sahil Mago 48, Vinod Chugh 25, Karan Rai 5 for 46, Mayank Aggarwal 2 for 28).

Akash Sudan hits for Frank Anthony School
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New Delhi, May 3
A strokeful century by Akash Sudan (103, 13x4, 3x6) and deadly bowling by Yash Kumar (3 for 12) helped Frank Anthony Academy defeat Shahdara Sports by 114 runs in a league match of the Jr Master Cup Under-10 Cricket Tournament at the Frank Anthony School ground. Akash was declared the man of the match.

Scores: Frank Anthony: 195 for 9 in 30 overs (Akash Sudan 103, Rohan Kumar 34, Raghav Anand 4 for 38).

Shahdara Sports: 81 all out in 25.4 overs (Sarthak Kumar 34, Tarun Kumar 3 for 12, Roshan Kumar 2 for 16, Rohan Saijwal 2 for 9).

Gambhir, Manhas slam tons

Fascinating centuries by India players Gautam Gambhir (139, 15x4, 4x6) and Mithun Manhas (102, 10x4, 2x6) helped Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) defeat Indian Airlines by 12 runs and lift the fifth All-India Jubilant Cup Cricket Tournament title at the Gajraula Stadium. The winners received a cash prize of Rs 51,000 while the runners-up pocketed Rs 3,1000.

Ravneet Ricky received the man of the match award while Mithun Manhas got the best bowler award. Sandeep Sawal and Gautam Gambhir shared the man of the series award.

The final was umpired by S K Bansal and Anil Choudhary.

Scores: ONGC: 318 for 6 in 40 overs (Gautam Gambhir 139, Mithun Manhas 102, Rajat Bhatia 3 for 63). Indian Airlines: 306 all out in 39.4 overs (Ravneet Ricky 143, Sachin Rana 68, Ramesh Powar 3 for 53, Amit Uniyal 2 for 62).

VSPK School enter final

An all-round display Gurpreet Singh (33 and 3 for 12) enabled VSPK International School beat Young Friends and entered the final of the VSPK International Under-17 Cricket Tournament at the Roshanara Club ground.

Tapan Jain, who scored 65, was adjudged the man of the match.

Scores: VSPK: 186 all out in 34.1 overs (Tapan Jain 65, Gurpreet Singh 33, Luv Sehrawat 32, Ishan Bakshi 3 for 13, Ankit Maini 3 for 22, Abhinav Kumar 2 for 40).

Young Friends: 76 all out in 33.3 overs (Anvit Gupta 30, Rajveer Singh 3 for 14, Abhishek Sakuja 3 for 14, Gurpreet Singh 3 for 12).

Shastri Club sail into Devender cricket final
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New Delhi, May 3
Lal Bahadur Shastri Club defeated S G Sports by 57 runs and entered the final of the Devender Singh Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Central Secretariat ground. Shastri scored 281 all out in 44.4 overs. But S G Sports failed to achieve the target and manage to score 224 all out in 39.4 overs.

Scores: Shastri Club: 281 all out in 44.4 overs (Puneet Bisht 90, Naresh Jain 44, Suhail Sharma 36, Shikhar Dhawan 34, Pawan Tiwari 3 for 44, Rajeev Rathore 3 for 45).

S G Sports: 224 all out in 39.4 overs (Virender Sharma 46, Rahat Elahi 45, Rajeev Rathore 38, Jaswinder Singh 3 for 29, Suhail Sharma 3 for 41).

Khusbu, Ankita advance into TT finals
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New Delhi, May 3
Khusbu defeated Mrilani Mondal 11-5, 11-8, 9-11, 11-7 to enter the under-18 age group final of the fourth Pallavi Malhotra Inter-School Table Tennis Tournament played at the Bal Bharati School, Pitampura. In the under-17 semi-final, Ankita Aggarwal defeated Dipshika Verma 11-8, 7-11. 11-9, 6-11, 11-5.

Following are the other results (all semi-finals): Under-10: Priya Mittal b Vidushi 11-7, 11-2; Under-13: Garima Adlakha b Danushri 11-4, 11-5, 11-5;

Under-14: Shanya Sehgal b Survi Mida 11-6, 11-6, 11-5; Under-16: Anup Kumari lost to Bidshi Vats 5-11, 8-11, 8-12.

Poorvi Delhi Academy in semis
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New Delhi, May 3
An all-round display by Jai Parashar (5 for 39 and 47) and a dashing unbeaten 69 with ten fours by Himanshu Saily helped Poorvi Delhi Academy defeat S D Cricket Academy by four wickets and entered the semi-final of the Dr Sushila Tiwari Memorial Under-17 Cricket Tournament at the Yamuna complex ground.

Scores: S D Academy: 163 all out in 33.2 overs (Amanjeet Singh 62, Jai Parshar 5 for 39, Deepankar Kumar 3 for 15).

Poorvi Delhi: 164 for 6 in 34.1 overs (Himanshu Saily 69 n o, Jai Parashar 47, Gaurav Bisht 30, Atul Dixit 3 for 25, Amanjeet Singh 3 for 35).

Admn steps up drive to collect licensed arms
Our Correspondent

Sonepat, May 3
In view of the orders issued by the District Magistrate of Sonepat directing the people to deposit their licensed arms in the nearby police stations, the administration have stepped up their campaign against those who have failed to deposit their licensed arms.

According to a report, a list of such license holders has already been sent to all the police stations so that action could be taken against those who have failed to deposit their arms in the police stations.

There were about 5,000 holders of arms licenses who are required to deposit their arms in the police stations. This step has been taken by the district administration so that law and order could be maintained during the Lok Sabha elections. It may be recalled that the District Magistrate of Sonepat had issued as many as 3,249 arms licenses from the year 1990 to date. However, no new license had been issued since March 10 after the enforcement of the model code of conduct by the Election Commission for the Lok Sabha elections.

The order of the District Magistrate, however, will not apply on the private security guards employed by commercial establishments, petrol pumps, showrooms, jewellery houses and the industrial units.

Meanwhile, most of the government officials and the employees on duty for the Lok Sabha elections have so far failed to fill up Form 12 for exercising their franchise in the Lok Sabha elections. The last date of depositing such forms is May 4. If they failed to deposit such forms by May 4 will be deprived of voting through the mail. The polling will take place on May 10.