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Hockey,
tennis squads for Punjab Games
Our Sports Reporter
Ludhiana, September 27
The names of members of the Ludhiana hockey and lawn tennis teams for the forthcoming Punjab State Womens Games scheduled to be held at different venues of the city from October 1 to 3 have been announced. According to Mr Sohan Lal Lotey, District Sports Officer, competition in as many as 10 disciplines including athletics, basketball and volleyball at Guru Nanak Stadium; badminton at Shastri Hall;
gymnastics at the Multi-purpose Indoor Hall; hockey at astro turf ground of the Punjab Agricultural University; handball, kabaddi and kho-kho at the Government College for Women and lawn tennis at the Satluj Club, will be held during the three-day games. The names finalised for the hockey team are Avtar Kaur, Sarvjot Kaur, Kuldeep Kaur, Narinder Pal Kaur, Gurpreet Kaur, Chandni, Sarvjeet Kaur, Sandeep Kaur, Sukhandeep Kaur, Jyoti, Vijeta Bedi, Roopinder Kaur, Kulwinder Kaur, Kanwaldeep Kaur, Monica and Gurmeet Kaur. Ms Kusam will be the coach of the team. Lawn tennis team will comprise Nidhi Gupta, Reeha Sharma, Amandeep Dhillon and Bhartinder Kaur. Ms Sonia Kumari will be the coach of the team. Sidhwan girls win:
Girls of the Guru Hargobind Public Senior Secondary School, Sidhwan Khurd, brought laurels for their school by clinching the title (under-16 years) in the North Zone Cluster XI and XII Handball Tournament held from September 24 to 27 at MGN Public School, Jalandhar. Teams from Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir CBSE schools participated in the tournament.In the finals, Guru Hargobind Public Senior Secondary School outplayed GNP School, Bhikhiwind, Amritsar, and won by a margin of 27 points. Prabhjot Kaur Virk, captain of Sidhwan school was adjudged the best scorer of the tournament. Mahal to umpire
India A- NZ tie:
Another feather has been added to the cap of Dr Manjit Singh Mahal from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, who will officiate as umpire in the three-day match between the visting New Zealand team and India A to be played at Rakjot from October 2 to 4. Dr Mahal, working as senior entomologist in the
Department of Entomology, has already umpired one-day International match between India and England in February 2002, besides officiating as third umpire in the match between India and Zimbabwe at Hyderabad in March, 2002.

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