75 patients examined at health camp
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 9
As many as 75 patients were examined and medicines given free of cost to the needy patients at an awareness camp on drug de-addiction and stress management organised by Mukat Hospital and Heart Institute at their premises today. The camp was organised under the guidance of Dr Ambrish Singal, neuro-psychiatrist.

According to Dr Ravi Inder Singh, medical director of the hospital, the camp aimed at creating awareness among the public regarding various ailments. The camp observed that addiction to alcohol and drugs was rising among the youth. This, together with increasing stress, was leading to various kinds of health problems among the people. Even those below the age of 25 years were contracting heart diseases. All this required preventive checkups and a change in lifestyle.

SPORTS

Panchkula skaters for national meet at Visakhapatnam
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, May 9
Panchkula skaters Nourin Midha in the girls’ section and Vishal Mani and Shubham in the boys section are among members of the Sub-Junior teams which will represent Haryana in the National Roller Skating championship to be held at Visakhapatnam from May 20 to 25.

The trials for the same were held at Blue Bird High School in Panchkula.

The teams are: roller hockey: sub-junior boys; Vishal Mani (Panchkula), Dipanshoo Saini (Faridabad), Vipul Kamboj, Abhinav Kapoor and Suhas Goel (Yamunanagar), Shubham (Panchkula), Balvinder (Kaithal), Varun Chauhan (Faridabad), Dharamveer (Yamunanagar) and Varun Datta (Faridabad. stand-byes:Sanpreet (Karnal), Jaskaran (Kaithal), Manpreet (Faridabad and Gaurav (Panchkula).

Sub-junior girls: Rebecca Singh (Faridabad), Nourin (Panchkula), Chitra Bakshi (Faridabad), Mandeep (Sirsa), Vani Dutta (Faridabad), Suboohi Sehgal and Ashvarya Kamboj ( both Yamunanagar), Priyanka (Faridabad), Harpreet and Beant Kaur (both Sirsa). Stand-byes;Nikita (Panchkula), Supriya (Yamunanagar), Rijul (Kaithal) and Sukriti Goswamy (Faridabad).

Junior boys: Gurmalak (Kaithal), Gobinder (Kurukshetra, Ravi (Kurukshetra), Yudhvir (Kaithal), Rohit Gupta (Kurukshetra), Vikrant Kamboj (Yamunanagar), Dhruv Gautam (Faridabad), Pradeep Singh (kaithal), Anuj Kamboj (Yamunanagar) and Sagar (kaithal). Stand-byes: Ankur Sawhney (Yamunanagar), Arjun (Panchkula), Vaibhav Sharma (Faridabad), Salil and Gaurav (both Panipat).

Junior girls: Poonam, Satinder, Priyanka, Parveen Kamboj, Anika, Milan, Kanika (all Sirsa), Akshi (Panipat), Renuka and Samriti (both Panchkula).

Senior boys: Anjum Ahmed (Faridabad), Pritam (Yamunanagar), Amit Ahuja (Faridabad), Sahil Khattar, Vipin and Tushar (all Panchkula), Amit, Shashank and Aman (all Yamunanagar), Varun Sarin (Faridabad). stand-byes:Surinder Sodhi (Panipat), Sumit Parashar (Faridabad), Vishal Saini (Yamunanagar) and Sandeep (Kurukshetra).

Senior girls: Priyanka Sharma and Anuja Chauhan (both Panchkula), Yashdeep, Ritu, Sonali and Gurpreet (all Sirsa), Chandita Kamboj and Suruchi Chandel (both Panchkula), Megha Saini (Faridabad) and Ritika (Panchkula).

Stand-byes: Khushboo Saini (Faridabad), Meera, Kuljeet and Kamaljeet (all Sirsa).

Speed events: six- eight yrs;Sumedha, Isha and Abhijeet (all Karnal); eight to 10 yrs: Naurin Midha (Panchkula), Poonam Saini and Pragya (Kurukshetra); Parichy (Karnal),10-12 yrs: Neha Narwal (karrnal), Rebecca Singh and Chitra Bakshi (both Faridabad);12-14 yrs; Akshi Bhargava (Panipat), Amber (Panchkula) and Veenus (Kurukshetra). Above 14 yrs: Roopam Vats (Panipat), Poonam (karnal), Medha Saini and Khushboo Saini (Both Faridabad).

Boys: Six- eight yrs; Arshdeep (Karnal), Gautam (Panchkula); 8-10 yrs: Parteek Narwal (Karnal), Himasnhu (Kurukshetra), Vinal Tripathi (Panipat); Inline;Mudit (Panchkula).

10-12 yrs; Jatin Goyal (karnal), Anil Kumar (Panipat), Amit (Kurukshetra).

Inline: Dipanshu Saini (Faridabad), Rajat (Karnal) and Sahil (Rohtak).12-14 yrs:Gurdeep Singh and Salil Tripathi (both Panipat), Dhruv Gautam (Faridabad).

Inline: Arjun Gaddi (Panchkula). Above 14 yrs; Girish (Kurukshetra), Surinder Sodhi (Panipat), Ravi Malik (Karnal). Inline:Piyush Gaur and Sumit Parashar (both Faridabad), Amit Sharma (Karnal).

Football final

St Xavier’s Senior Secondary School,Sector 44, will take on St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, in the final of the Shivalik Trophy for Atoms (under-12 boys) Football Championship played here today at the Shivalik Public School, Sector 41 grounds.

In the first semi-final, St Stephen’s School, got the better of St Soldier’s International school, Sector 28, 5-0. Though St Soldier’s boys were playing a better game, it was in the 10th minute that Harshdeep collected a faulty clearance and hit the ball towards the goal, which beat the St Soldier’s goalkeeper completely. St Stephen’s boys scored the second and third goal in the 12th and 13th minutes. Here the scorers were Tarun and Nitin. After lemon break, St Stephen’s boys added two more goals in the 30th and 35th minutes while the scorers were Harjot and Tarun.

In the second semi-final, St Xavier’s Senior Secondary School,Sector 44, defeated Saupin’s School, Sector 32, by one goal. The goal was scored by right striker Amrinder Singh in the 33rd minute.

The final will be played tomorrow at 4.30 pm.

ITBP victorious

The Indo-Tibetan Border Force Xi bagged the hockey title in the Chandigarh Senior State Hockey Championship, which concluded this evening at the Sector 18 hockey stadium. The ITBP overpowered the Indian Air Force XI 1-0. The goal was scored by Anthony Nag through a penalty corner in the sixth minute. Both teams got seven penalty corners each but failed to convert them into goal. Mr Chandersekhar, President, Chandigarh Hockey Association, gave away the prizes.

Mohali in final

Mohali entered the final of the Punjab State Inter-District Cricket tournament for ML Markan Trophy, thanks to a superb knock of unbeaten 72 runs by Simranjit Singh Balthana, which helped his team in beating fancied Jalandhar by six wickets. It is the first time that Mohali has reached the final of the inter-district meet since its formation six years ago. Earlier, Jalandhar won the toss and elected to bat.

Brief scores: Jalandhar; 128 runs all out in 48 overs (Sarabjeet14, Robin Bhagat 16, Vikramjeet Singh 20, Harman Singh 4 for 34, Harmeet Singh 2 for 54, Nikhil Sharma 2 for 19, Nikhil Dwivedi 2 for 12).

Mohali: 133 runs for six in 32 overs (Karan Kapoor 23, Simranjit Singh 72 n.o., Sunil 2 for 25, Sumit Kalia 2 for 29).

Second semi-final: brief scores; Chandigarh: 383 runs for seven in 90 overs (Gurkirat 108, Vishal 67, Sumit Dhiman 66, Gaurav Gambhir 46, Himanshu 24, Karan 3 for 83).

Amritsar; 15 runs for one in three overs (Rahul 5 n.o).