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St Stephen’s lads for Dhaka
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 2
Members of the St Stephen’s Soccer Academy left for Bangladesh today to participate in the BKSP (under-16) Football Tournament to be held in Bangladesh between July 5 to 12. The academy has been invited by the Bangladesh Institute of Sports, Dhaka.

The following is the team: Amit Kumar Gulia, Harbir Singh, Jashanpreet Singh, Manpreet Singh, Gaijinlong Palmei, Parmeet Singh, Oinam Gyaneshwor Singh, Sukhdeep Singh, Hardeep Singh, Chavideep Singh, Aita Ram, Sahil Behl, Nikhil Vyas, Sahibinder Singh, Lunthaongam Kamei, Robin Singh, Lakhveer Singh, Jaspreet Singh and Anil Bhandari. Officials: Mr Bhupinder Singh will be the coach of the squad while Mr Amrinder Singh Dhillon will be the Manager.

Meghna, Arshdeep win TT titles
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, July 2
Meghna Kakaria DAV Public School, Sector 8, and Arshdeep of Patiala won the cadet girls single and cadet boys singles titles at Sector 23 table tennis hall today.

In the cadet girls singles final top seeded Meghna defeated her team mate Barbie Nagpal also of DAVP School Sector 8. The final score was 8-11, 13-11, 13-11, 15-13. In cadet boys final, Arshdeep defeated second seeded Ravi Dangi also of Patiala 3-0. The final score was 11-3, 11-9, 11-8.

Results: Cadet girls: quarter-finals: Aishwarya Arora (DAVPS-8) bt Garima (BVB-27) 11-6, 11-9, 11-5; Meghna Kakaria (DAVPS-8) bt Vibhuti (BVB-27) 11-5, 14-16, 11-3, 11-6; Naina Suri (DAVPS-8) bt Yamini (BVB-27) 11-8, 11-9, 9-11, 11-6; Barbie Nagpal (DAVPS-8) bt Kalyani (TH-33) 11-6, 9-11, 11-4, 11-5; Semifinals: Barbie Nagpal (DAVPS-8) bt Naina Suri (DAVPS-8) 16-14, 8-11, 11-9, 11-8; Meghna Kakaria (DAVPS-8) bt Aishwarya (DAVPS-8) 10-12, 11-3, 11-6, 12-10;

Final: Meghna Kakaria (DAVPS-8) bt Barbie Nagpal(DAVPS-8) 8-11, 13-11, 13-11, 15-13; Cadet boys:- quarterfinals: Prasoon (Pkl) bt Sunil Sikri (Ferozepre) 11-8, 11-5, 11-7; Ravi Dangi (Patiala) bt Sahil 11-6, 11-6, 11-5; Arshdeep (Patiala) bt Rahul (Ludhiana) 11-8, 11-9, 8-11, 9-11, 11-5; Ranjot (AKSIPS) bt Shubham (Pkl) 11-9, 4-11, 11-9, 11-8;

Semifinals: Arshdeep (Patiala) bt Prasoon (Pkl) 11-8, 7-11, 11-7, 12-10; Ravi Dangi (Patiala) bt Ranjot (AKSIPS-41) 11-8, 11-2, 11-7;

Final: Arshdeep (Patiala) bt Ravi Dangi (Patiala) 11-3, 11-9, 11-8; Subjunior girls:- pre-quarterfinals: Nishu (Ludhiana) bt Aishwarya (DAVPS-8) 13-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-9; Sunanda (DAVPS-8) bt Ekta Malhotra (Jalandhar) 11-4, 11-9, 12-14, 11-4; Kalyani (TH-33) bt Kanvi Nagpal (DAVPS-8) 14-12, 11-9, 11-5; Pratibha (Patiala) bt Dhruva (MM-21) 11-7, 11-4, 11-5; Subjunior boys: Chetan Kumar (Ryan Int) bt Manvish 11-5, 11-5, 11-3; Vikram (NPS) bt Arnav (DAVPS-8) 11-9, 11-3, 11-5; Amandeep (Patiala) bt Akash Goel 11-6, 11-5, 7-11, 12-10.

Anti-chess game introduced

Chandigarh, July 2
If you want to win you have to lose. This is the essence of a scheme jointly introduced by Ethos and Swatch to give a new experience to youth. They introduced an anti-chess game here today.

The Head, Merchandising, and Coordinator Chandigarh operations, Ethos, Mr Rakesh Mohunta, explained that this traditional game had been given a new twist. The game is of 10 minutes and is played on computer. Unlike the regular chess game, it is played in the reverse order. To win you have to lose all the “members” to the opposite team. The winner will get a Swatch watch free of cost. Even if you have eliminated your opponent teams then also you can get discounts and incentives which will be inversely proportional to the number of chess pieces left in your team. OC