SPORTS

City golfer in Indian team
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1
Another 17-year-old city golfer who is knocking at the doors of senior circuit of golfing fraternity, Ajeetesh Sandhu has been selected as member of the Indian golf squad to take part in the Eisenhower Cup 2006 Tournament scheduled to be held at South Africa in October this year.

Already recognised to be No 1 in Junior National Golf Championship for 2003-04 by the Indian Golf Union, this young golfing prodigy of Chandigarh will have a major break in the senior circuit after getting a place in the Indian golf team.

He got this berth on the basis of selection trials held at Noida in the first week of this month. His final standing after discarding one bad round was at overall second position with a par card of 504 points in seven best out of eight rounds.

Ajeetesh who has pocketed many junior titles in the under -13, under-15 categories, stole the limelight during the ‘Teens on the Green World Champion-ship Finale’, a 54-hole stroke play event held at the Stone Mountain Resort near Atlanta in November last. He finished second, carded a total score of 143 today just one stroke short of Simon Merry of Trinidad who scored 142.

He showed his class at the South India Junior/subjunior Championship held at Karnataka Golf Association (KGA) greens with a closing round score of 73 to win with a total of 289. Earlier, in 2003, he created history in Western India Junior Golf Championship, held at Mumbai, where he won the under -15 title by a record margin of double scores.

Ajeetesh, an ex-student of St John’s School, Sector 26, at present is in Florida, USA, where he has joined the Lead Better Golf Academy (DLGA) in October last on full scholarship for two years.

Athletics schedule finalised
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1
The Amateur Athletics Association Chandigarh has finalised the annual calendar of various athletic events to be organised during 2006-07 at its executive body meeting here on Wednesday.

The events to be held in the session are as follow:

District Athletic Championship: First fortnight of August, 2006.

Chandigarh State Junior Athletics Championship: First fortnight of September 2006.

Participation of Chandigarh state junior athletic team in North Zone Junior Athletic Championship: At Saharanpur from September 20 to 22.

Participation in Inter Zonal Junior Athletic Championship: At Lucknow from October 11 to 13.

Chandigarh State Sub-junior Athletic Championship and Chandigarh State Men And Women Athletics Championship: Last fortnight of October.

Participation in National Inter district Championship: At Haridwar from November 4 to 6, 2006.

Participation in National Inter State Athletic Championships (seniors): At Chennai from November 14 to 18, 2006.

Participation in National Inter State Athletic Championships (juniors): At Karnataka from November 25 to 29, 2006.

Swimmers selected for camp
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1
The following swimmers have been selected in the trials, conducted by the Adhoc Selection Committee (Swimming) Chandigarh, held at Govt. College for Boys, Sector 11, here yesterday.

The swimmers will attend a camp, starting from June 5.

The names are: Junior/sub-junior (girls): Shurati Sharma, Indeep Suchitra, Parakirti Sharma, Bani Khanna, Chitra Gada, Anchal Guglani, Nikhit Pannu, Kriti, Nutan, Anmol, Mikhia, Nirmal Sohal, Chahat Arora.

Junior group (boys): Vivek Yadav, Ishan Bakshi, Dilsher Khanna, Angad Singh, Akash Bansal, Yadvinder Rawat, Saparsh Arora, Kunal Bhardwaj, Abhay Kanwar, Saheb Partap, Utej Sohal, Karan Bhai, Parminder Singh, Sahib Rana, Ikshit Malhotra, Mayank Jogwani, Harneet Singh, Chandan Gotwal, Maninder Singh.

Cricket tourney team

Varinder Chopra will lead the Haryana Power Sports Group cricket team in the forthcoming 32nd All-India Inter State Electricity Board’s Cricket Tournament to be held at Patiala from June 3 to 5.

The other members of the team are as follow: Jagmohan Kapoor (V C), Rajiv Anand, Anter Atma Singh, Dikshit Bhatt, Harvinder Singh, Vikram Singh, Pankaj Chugh, Deepak Bhatt, Jasnir Singh, Sandeep Raghav, Mukesh Rohilla, Ramesh Sikka, Mohit Bhatnagar, Ravi Kant, Mukesh Dubey, Rajesh Kumar.

Mr Sajjan Kumar,General Secretary Sport, HPSG, will accompany the team as manager.

DAV win table soccer title
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1
The table soccer team of C L Aggarwal DAV Model School, Sector 7 B, won the overall trophy for the 2nd Open Punjab Table Soccer Championship 2006 held at Malerkotla last week.

The winners’ are as under:

Gold medals: Saksha Mahajan and Jyoti Singh.

Silver medals: Arshad, Ankur Pandey, Vishu, Akhil Mehta, Vishal Kumar, Jatinder, Shankar Abrol, Gagandeep Singh, Subhash Verma.

Bronze medals: Dheeraj Malhotra, Atul Pandey, Saurav, Serhate, Naginder Gupta, Jatinder Pal Singh, Pankaj, Manish Naik, Tushar P Kholay, Lavleen Sharma, Priyanka Kapoor.

Gurvinder, Leena in final
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1
Gurvinder Kaur of AG, Punjab, and Leena Khare of AG, Uttar Pradesh, moved into the final in the women’s singles category during the All-India North Zone Inter-Audit Table Tennis Tournament at Table Tennis Hall, Sector 23, here today.

Gurvinder beat Sikha Sharma of AG, Haryana, 4-0 and Leena Khare thrashed another Haryana player Soroj Chaudhary 4-0 in the semifinals.

Other results: veterans’ singles (semifinals): Somnath Pramanik (HP) b Rakesh Joshi (UP) 3-2; Patanjali (Hry) b Anil Sharma (Pun) 3-0; men’s singles (semifinals): Amit Srivastava (UP) b Jaswant Gangta (HP) 4-1; Harish (Hry) b Vikas Sharma (Pun) 4-2.

Carrom camp
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1
The Chandigarh Carrom Association will organise a summer carrom coaching camp for boys and girls below the age of 18 years, as on December 31 next, from June 10 to 24 at St. Stephen’s School, Sector 45.

Players interested may contact Mahesh Sekhri, general secretary of the association, or Diwan Singh Aithani, assistant general secretary, latest by June 7.

Volleyball trials
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1
Selection trials for Shivalik Volleyball Academy will be conducted on June 23 and 24 at Shivalik Public School, Sector 41 here.

Interested players, in the age 15-19 year age group, have to report at 8 a m on June 23. Besides training facilities, the selected players will be provided free board lodging, education and sports kits.

The players will appear for personal interview on June 24 along with their original date of birth and sports certificates.

Football trials
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1
The Chandigarh Football Association (CFA) will conduct field trials to select 30 probables on June 3 at Football Stadium, Sector 17 here at 4.30 pm for the forthcoming AIFF Girls National Championship (under 17).