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SPORTS

US team to compete in Jarkhar sports fest
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, October 29
Besides kabaddi, competition in hockey, basketball, handball, volleyball, netball, aththletics, wrestling, volleyball, shooting and kabaddi (national sytle) will be held in this year’s edition of the Annual Sports Festival of Jarkhar. The festival will be held at Mata Sahib Kaur Stadium at Jarkhar village, about 12 kms from here.

Narinder Pal Singh Sidhu and Balbir Singh, chairman and president, respectively, of the Jarkhar sports festival organising committee said hockey olympian Gaganajit Singh will lead the march carrying the games torch which will start from the historical Gurudwara Manji Sahib, Alamgir. A number of prominent sportspersons will take part in this march.

Impressive cultural programmes on all the days of the festival will be the main attraction of this event, they added.

All major hockey academics of Punjab have been invited to compete in this four-day festival. A hockey team from the United States has also confirmed its participation in this sports extravaganza.

Matches in basketball and kabaddi will be organised under floodlights. The organising committee will be meeting at the festival venue on November 3 to review the arrangement being made to conduct the event successfully, Sidhu said.

DAV Jalandhar wins football championship
Our Correspondent

Mandi Ahmedgarh, October 29
Football teams of Police DAV Public School, Jalandhar, and Shri Guru Teg Bahadur Public Senior Secondary School, Khankot, emerged winners and runners-up, respectively, in the football championship of the CBSE (Cluster XVI) that concluded at Sant Isher Singh Ji Memorial Public School, Karamsar Rara Sahib, near here. DAV Police Public School, Amritsar, bagged the third prize.

Manager of the trust Baba Balwant Singh presided over the prize distribution function and CBSE assistant secretary, Panchkula, Manoj Kumar Shrivastava, was the chief guest.

While addressing the gathering, Srivastava appreciated parents of students studying in the rural schools for persuading their wards to adopt sports as their lifestyle. He called upon the representatives of a few schools affiliated with the CBSE, to devote more time and energy for promotion of sports in their respective schools. He gave away prizes to the winners.

Host institute’s manager Baba Balwant Singh said the trust would earmark more funds for promoting the school games.

According to principal Gurinder Pal Singh, 30 teams from a few schools affiliated with the CBSE took part in the knock out system of the championship. To save time the matches were simultaneously played in three grounds of the school.

Lawn Tennis
Delhi, JMI varsities enter semis
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, October 29
Defending champions Delhi University scored an emphatic 3-0 win over Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, while Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi, overpowered last year’s losing finalists, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 3-1 to storm into the semi-finals of the North Zone Inter-University Lawn Tennis Tournament being held at the PAU Total Tennis Academy courts of the Punjab Agricultural University campus, here, today.

Host Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, along with Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, too secured their berths in the last-four stage as their opponents Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, and Allahabad University failed to turn up.

In the first quarter-final, Delhi University went into the lead as their skipper, Akshay Kohli with sizzling forehand and accurate serves, defeated Vijay Bharwaj in straight sets 6-0, 6-2.

Kinshuk Sharma of Delhi University with his delicate serves and volley tactics, brushed aside Bharat Bhardwaj without facing any resistence 6-2, 6-1. In the doubles match, Kinshuk Sharma and Krishna outplayed Bharat Bhardwaj and Vijay 6-0, 6-3 and enabled the current champions a smooth sailing into the semi-finals.

In the second quarter-final, Gursher, international player, Panjab University, was trailing 0-3 against Khalid of JMI University when he got himself injured and could not continue the match to surrender it 0-3.

Armaan of PU outnumbered Yaseer 7-5, 6-1 to level the score one all. As Panjab University fielded only two players and Gursher’s injury forced them not to play the reverse single, it cost them the match also (1-3).