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 Stephen’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 team’s fourth goal in the dying minutes of the contest.

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