HEALTH

175 examined at medical camp
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, December 12
As many as 175 persons were examined at a medical camp organised by Girish Memorial Trust at Bone and Joint Clinic, Sector 11 today.

The camp was for eye and orthopaedic problems. Free medicines were also distributed to the patients.

Another free medical camp was organised by Mahavir International at Jain Sthanak, Sector 17, and 600 patients were examined in this camp.

As many as 10 patients, suffering from eye ailments, were identified for operations, and they will be operated upon at General Hospital, Sector 6.

SPORTS

Sameer outplays Manav
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 12
Sameer Bhalla outplayed Manav Sardana 3-0 (48-36,73-39, 65-17), Sandeep Sharma beat Deepanshu 3-0 (73-18, 51-12, 68-12), Anand Sharma defeated G.B. Singh 3-0 (60-35,57-11, 57-29) and Bhupinder Singh downed Kapil Khaneja 3-2 (48-27, 56-44, 42-57, 46-52, 40-31) in the Haryana State Billiards and Snooker Tournament played here today in Sector 34.

Netball trials

The Netball Association of Chandigarh will hold the selection trials tomorrow to select the Chandigarh Senior Women Netball team for the Senior National Netball Championship to be held at Delhi from December 28 to 31. According to Mr R. Sharan, secretary of the association, the trials will be held tomorrow at 3.30 pm at Government Model High School, Sector 28.

Korfball team

A 23-member City Korfball team has been selected by the Chandigarh Korfball Association for a coaching camp to finally select the team for the forthcoming National Korfball Championship to be held from December 24 to 28 at Hyderabad. The probables were selected on the basis of Second State Korfball Meet concluded recently. The 10-day camp will begin here tomorrow at SGGS College, Sector 26. The probables are, Deepak, Jatinder, Samardeep, Sandeep, Navpreet Kaur, Karamjeet, Mrinalini, Gurpratap, Rajnish, Sonia, Preetika Goyal, R. Deep, Umesh Gupta, H. Singh, Ravinder, Sandeep, Shiva, Nikhil Hooda, Devinder, Priya, Shalini, Archana and Sukhjeet.

Quark Media XI enter final
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 12
Quark Media XI outplayed HFCL XI by three wickets to enter the final of the CRY Cadence Corporate Cricket Challenge meet played at Sector 3 Sports Complex, Panchkula, here today.

Skipper of the winning team Rahul Joshi scored 66 runs, while Tej Gobind and Mohit Gupta played a stellar role for Quark Media XI in beating HFC XI.

Tej Gobind was also declared man of the match. Yesterday, Infosys XI had beaten Sigma XI by five wickets to enter the finals. They will now meet Quark Media on December 18.

Brief scores: HFCL XI: 141 runs all out in 28.2 overs (Rahul Joshi 66, Tej Gobind 2 for 32, Rohit Sharma 3 for 16).

Quark:142 runs for seven in 28 overs (Tej Gobind 47, Mohit Gupta 24, Bhupinder 3 for 39, Amit Bhardwaj 2 for 13).

Annual sports day

Tiny tots of Doon International School, Sector 69, Mohali, participated in the annual sports day of the school held on the school premises last evening.

It also had drills and athletics events. The children from pre-nursery to UKG also took part in the races. The prizes were distributed by Ms M.K. Mann, Principal of the school.

PU campus win women’s air rifle title
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 12
The Panjab University campus, Chandigarh led by Chetanpreet Nilon, Sabeeha Dhillon and Anahaat Dhindsa clinched the air rifle women title in the Panjab University Inter-College Rifle Shooting Championship held here today at Sector 25 Patiali ki Rao Shooting ranges. The air pistol women title, went in favour of eves of Dasmesh Girls College, Badal (Muktsar). In the men section, both air rifle and air pistol title was bagged by Panjab University campus shooters.

In the individual section, in air rifle women, Prabhleen Chauhan of GGS College for Women, Sector 32, Chandigarh, was adjudged the individual best with score of 386/400 followed by Chetanpreet Nilon of the PU campus at 385/400 while Avneet Kaur of PU regional centre, Muktsar, got third place with 383/400.

In the air pistol section, Minerva Singh of the PU campus with 365/400 got first place, while Rajvinder Kaur and Jasveer Kaur, both from Dasmesh Girls College, Badal, attained the second and third place when they shot 329/400 and 323/400.

In the air rifle section, Sarabjit Singh Randhawa with 582/600 was declared the individual overall best shooter followed by Ashreet Singh Dhaliwal also of the PU campus who shot 569/600 while Arjun Pratap Singh of GGD SD College, Chandigarh, with 542/600 was adjudged the third best shooter.

Cricket academy bags trophy

Cricket Academy, Sector 37, bagged the First Aresson Trophy in Under-14 league Cricket Tournament concluded today at Stepping Stones School, Sector 37.

Mr Surinder Singh “Baijee”, secretary of the Chandigarh Cricket Association and Mr Vivek Attray, Director (IT), the UT were the guests of honour.

Brief scores: Cricket Academy-37: 165 runs for three in 25 overs (Rajat Taneja 72 n.o., Gitin 37, Piyush Arora 2 for 27).

Coaching Centre, Chandigarh: 103 runs all out in 19.3 overs (Kuldip Naithani 21, Ishan 14, Gitin 3 for 15, Devinder Singh 2 for 12, Iishank Charles 2 for 10, Himanshu Sharma 2 for 13).

Patiala guy emerges fastest
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, December 12
Patiala lad Hardewinder Singh proved lucky as he surpassed more than 1900 participants to emerge the fastest when he bowled at the speed of 133 kmph at the ESPN Scorpio Speedster show held this evening at the DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8.

City bowler Bharat Sharma, however, brought cheers to the local cricket fraternity when he bowled at 130 kmph and remained at number two.

The winner was given rs 8000 while runner-up was awarded Rs 2000.

Hardewinder Singh was also the national runner-up when he bowled at 134 kmph. Meanwhile, VRV Singh of Chandigarh , who was in under-19 Indian Cricket team last year and also the winner of the last year’s Chandigarh leg of ESPN Speedster show, has been given a wild card entry for the final leg at Mumbai.

Since the today’s winner Hardewinder Singh will be busy playing in an under-19 cricket tie next week, as the dates clashed with the final leg at Mumbai on December 19, so VRV Singh will represent Chandigarh region.

The runner-up of today’s leg, Bharat Sharma has played for an under-19 Indian Schools team in the Commonwealth Cricket meet held last year in India. He is a trainee at the DAV Cricket Coaching Centre and coached by SAI coach Sukhwinder Bawa.

Earlier this evening, 15 bowlers qualified for the final round on the basis of a target of 124 kmph and above. Among those who qualified seven were from Chandigarh and rest from other places of the region.

There names were Sunny Singh (128km ph), Vikas Chauhan (127 km ph), Parveen Sharma (126 km ph), Sarul Kanwar (125 km pr), Baljinder Singh (124 km ph) and Sunil (124 km ph).