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C O M P E N D I U M Tuesday, August 17, 1999 |
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CHANDIGARH, Aug 16 Dr G.S. Kochhar and Alamgir Grewal clinched the Independence Golf Cup in the golf tournament organised by the Chandigarh Golf Club. The two defeated Gurbaaz Maan and Nitin Mittal by being two holes up on the 17th holes. At a prize distribution they were given away the trophy by the club president, Gogi Sibia. In the first nine holes, favourite Gurbaaz was completely off colour. They lost the first hole by par and on the second hole Gurbaazs ball went into the left rough and was lost. However the second hole was halved by his partner. The third hole was again halved by par and then the Kochhar-Grewal team won the 4th, 5th and 7th hole and they were 4 holes up after the 1st nine holes. The 10th hole was halved again and in the 11th hole Alamgir had a birdie to win that hole and they were 5 hole up. There was slight hiccup for the Kochhar-Grewal team as they lost the 12th and 13th holes and halved the 14th and 15th holes and lost again by a birdie on the 16th hole. But it was too late for the Gurbaaz team as they halved the 17th hole by par and Kochhar-Grewal team won the match and the cup on the 17th hole being 2 holes up. The losers plate mach was organised for those who could not reach the finals of the Independence Cup:- Gross winner Girish Virk 78, Gross runner-up H.S. Kang 79, Net winner Anoop Tejinder 72, Net runner-up Bobby Pasricha 78. SPS win inter-school tourney CHANDIGARH, Aug 16 Sanjay Public School today played a valiant game to win the Sova Inter-school Tennis Ball Cricket Tournament which concluded today at St Anne's Convent School, Sector 32. In a thrilling final here in scorching heat, St Anne's School went down fighting to Sanjay Public School by one wicket only. Sister Josy, Principal of St Anne's School, gave away the trophy to the winners and prizes to players. Mr Arun Luthra, Marketing consultant of Sova products, told that this game was now getting popular in this part of the country also. In the final stages of the game, Nitin of Sanjay Public School gave an excellent performance when he scored 23 runs in eight balls which included two sixes and one four to take his side to victory. Davinder gave a good start to Sanjay Public School by scoring 58 runs which included five sixes and two boundaries. Earlier, St Anne's team batted well. Its skipper, Gaurav Gambhir, made 30 runs and guided his team in taking the score to 138 for the loss of nine wickets in 20 overs. Jatinder Bohra took three wickets for 25 runs. Sanjay Public School at one time were struggling at 115 runs for the loss of nine wickets. At this point, Nitin played a pivotal role in bringing his side to victory. Satbir and Sanjeev took two wickets each for 28 and 34 runs, respectively. City carrom: Top seed Anjali Negi, second seed Nabhi Sahni along with Veena Dumra and Sushila Prasad entered the last four of the women's singles on the third day of the 9th Chandigarh State Carom Championship being played here at St Stephen's School, Sector 45, today. Nabhi Sahni who the top seed in the girls' section, sailed into the semi-finals where she is joined by Eveleen, Bhavna Sachdeva and Puneet Lamba. The semi-finalists in the sub-junior girls' section include Eveleen, Shikha Nanda, Nidhi Patwal and Sakshi Bawa. Rozerio Sampson today created a sensation by scoring a white slam while playing his second round match in the junior boys' singles section against Navdeep Gill. The results at the end of the second day are as follows: Junior boys' singles (second round) Devinderjit Gill b Manav, 25-00, 25-03; Deepak Bansal b Mohit Kohli, 25-00, 25-00; Dhruva b Taranpreet, 25-14, 25-14; Anu Papneja b Amrinder Dhillon, 25-11, 21-15, 25-12; Ramanpreet b Sachin Chauhan, 25-00, 25-01; Sanjay Negi b Jasdeep Dhillon 25-00, 25-00; Baninder Singh b Randhir Singh, 24-10, 25-00; Sumit b Gursimran, 25-00, 25-00; Money Bansal b Chanderdeep, 25-00, 25-00; Deepak b Vaibhav 25-00, 25-00; Randhir Kalsi b Harsimrandeep, 25-00, 25-01; Charukh Goel b Paramdeep Oberoi, 12-19, 25-16, 21-18; Rozerio Sampson b Navdeep Gill, 25-00, 25-00. Sub-junior boys' singles (second round) Vijay Garg b Karan Chahal, 19-12, 25-19; Taranpreet b Hardeep, 25-04, 25-00; Gurinder b Gurpreet, 25-00, 25-00; Money Bansal b Gagandeep, 25-00, 25-00; Gurpreet Singh b Karan Garg, 25-00, 25-00; Sumit Chakarvorty b Dinesh Chahal, 25-00, 25-00. Women's singles (quarterfinals) Anjali Negi b Bhanu Jain, 25-05, 15-21, 17-15; Sushila Prasad got a walkover against Sunil Kumari; Veena Dumra b Bhavna Sachdeva, 10-19, 23-18, 25-00; Nabhi Sahni b Saroj Chandel, 17-14, 17-16. Junior girls' singles (quarterfinals) Nabhi Sahni b Sakshi Bawa, 25-0, 25-04; Eveleen b Raminder Kaur, 24-12, 18-07; Bhavna Sachdeva b Neha Chowdhry, 25-00, 25-00; Puneet Lamba b Pallavi Piplani, 25-03, 25-09. Sub-junior singles (quarterfinals) Eveleen b Amrinder Kaur, 25-00, 25-00; Shikha Nanda b Balwinder Kaur, 25-00, 25-00; Nidhi Patwal b Shikha Mishra, 25-00, 24-01; Sakshi Bawa b Pallavi Piplani, 22-16, 23-09. Men's singles Mohd Tanveer b Sudhir Sidhu, 23-05, 25-11; Deepak b B.S. Negi 25-08, 25-00; D.S. Aithani b Ashish De, 14-11, 19-04; Sanjay Negi b Baninder Singh, 25-08, 25-15; Ajay Gupta b Taranpreet, 25-00, 25-06; Devinderjit b Anu Papneja, 23-19, 25-17; D. Das b Sumit, 25-19, 01-25, 22-05. Inter-area hockey: The Western Command Inter-area Hockey Tournament commenced here today at the Sector 42 Astroturf stadium. Six teams are taking part in this six-day league-cum-knockout tournament. The command teams are Ambala, Halwara, Hindon Ghaziabad, Rajokri and Suratgarh, besides the Chandigarh Area. In the opening match of the day, the Chandigarh Area team blanked Rajokri team, 14-0. The half-time score was 9-0. S.K. Kaushik was the top scorer with three goals, followed by T.P. Singh, V. Badhony, D. Ahluwalia and J. Singh who scored two goals each. R. Joshi, R.K. Singh and Babu scored one goal each. Ball badminton: The
Chandigarh Mini Ball Badminton Championship for boys and
girls will begin tomorrow at Government Model Senior
Secondary School, Sector 37. The three-day meet is being
organised by the Chandigarh Ball Badminton Association.
As many as 13 boys' and nine girls' teams had confirmed
their participation, said a press note of the
association. |
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