Ramanpreet, Sakshi champs

CHANDIGARH, Aug 18: Ramanpreet and Sakshi Bawa clinched titles in the sub-junior boys and girls section, respectively, on the penultimate day of the ninth Chandigarh State carrom championships at the St Stephen8217;s School in Sector 45, today. ramanpreet got the better of Sumit Chakarvarthy 25-1, 25-12 while Sakshi outplayed Eveleen 25-0, 25-5, to wear the girls crown.The junior girls title went to Nabhi Sahni who defeated Puneet Lamba 25-4, 5-19, 25-4.

Results
Men Singles: Quarterfinals: Tejinder Harry bt Charukh Goyal 25-9, 25-22; Gagandeep Singh bt Rozerio Sampson 25-23, 25-19; Ramanpreet bt Ajay Gupta 25-14; 25-15; M Tanveer bt Sanjay Negi 23-25, 25-6, 25-7. Semifinals: Tejinder Harry bt Gagandeep 16-25, 25-11, 25-16; M Tanveer bt Ramanpreet 2-25, 25-18, 25-16. Junior: Boys singles: Quarterfinals: Devinderjit Gill bt Dhurva 25-7, 25-4; Ramanpreet bt Baninder 25-8, 25-23; Sumit bt Randhir Kalsi 25-5, 25-5; Charukh Goyal bt Rozerio Sampson 25-24, 20-25, 25-24.
Sub-junior: Boys singles: Semifinals: Ramanpreet bt Taranpreet 13-14, 25-10, 24-11; Sumit Chakarvarthy bt Gurinder 17-11, 24-6. Final: Ramanpreet bt Sumit Chakarvarthy 25-1, 25-12. Men doubles: Quarterfinals: M Tanveer and Tejinder Harry bt Sudhir Sidhu and SP Janjua 25-0, 25-4; Mukesh Piplani and Vinod Vashisht bt Ravinder Sharma and NK Arora 25-13, 25-11; Gagandeep and Charukh bt Anu Pupneja and Gurinder 25-22, 25-18; Ramanpreet and Baninder bt KS Patwal and BS Negi 15-25, 25-17, 25-21.
Women singles: Semifinals: Anjali Negi bt Sushila Prasad 25-6, 25-1; Nabhi Sahni bt Veena Dumra 25-8, 17-15. Junior: Girls singles: Semifinals: Nabhi Sahni bt Eveleen 25-6, 25-0; Puneet Lamba bt Bhavna Sachdeva 24-9, 25-0. Final: Nabhi Sahni bt Puneet Lamba 25-4, 5-19, 25-4. Sub-junior singles: Semifinals: Eveleen bt Shikha Nanda 22-8; 25-10; Sakshi Bawa bt Nidhi Patwal 13-17, 23-8, 25-15. Final: Sakshi Bawa bt Eveleen 25-0, 25-0. Junior: Girls doubles: Nabhi Sahni and Puneet Lamba bt Amanapreet Neelam 25-0, 25-0; Pallavi Piplani and Eveleen bt Neha Choudhary and Raminder Kaur 25-12, 25-8.

Khalsa XI win
Khalsa XI beat Chandigarh XI by two goals to nil in the junior section in the six-a-side hockey tournament at the Sector 42 Hockey Stadium today.

Saurav and Manjeet were the marksmen for the winners.

In another match Guru Gobind Club beat Guru Nanak XI by 4-2. Jasbir struck three goals not hat-trick. Paramjeet got his first and team8217;s fourth goal in the dying minutes of the contest.

In the senior section, Rocket XI and Chicago XI played goalless draw.