Rohit shines in Golden winAll-round performance by Rohit Sharma (34, 3 for 24) and fine knock by Manvinder Singh (54) enabled JN Golden triumph over LB Shastri by 49 runs in the eleventh Sandeep Suri memorial tournament at Satyawati College. Amit Mishra's unbeaten 65 and Dalip TT's 4 for 41 went in vain for LB Shastri.Brief scores: JN Golden: 196 (Rohit Sharma 34, Manvinder Singh 54, Amlok Singh 28 not out, Dalip TT 4 for 41, Prashant Mehta 3 for 27) bt LB Shastri: 147 (Amit Mishra 65 not out, Sanjay Kumar 26, Rohit Sharma 3 for 24).DDA gamesKBL Srivastava won the title in rapid chess event of DDA's annual indoor games. He won all his five rounds played on Swiss basis. SR Hussain, Amar Singh and Jitender Rawat came second, third and fourth, respectively. In snooker matches, seed number three Mahavir Sherawat won the championship. Last year's winner and runners-up Suresh Sharma and Mohd Idris both lost to Sunil Arya and Mahavir Singh in the quarter-final itself. In the final Mahavir Sherawat beat Sunil Arya 5-4.Kartar Singh hockeyDelhi Women's Hockey Association will organise the Kartar Singh 6-a-side Delhi state women's hockey championship from January 16 to 22 at Janki Devi College. This type of tournament has been introduced for first time in Delhi.Veterans' meetThe annual Delhi State veterans athletics meet will be conducted at National Stadium on February 7 at 9 am. Many outstanding athletes will take part in this tournament. Selection of athletes for zonal veteran athletic championship to be held in Chandigarh in February will be made in this meet on the basis of performance. Entries close with 1016, National stadium and Room No. 1148, Gate No. 28, Nehru stadium.Taekwon-do teamFollowing players have been selected in the Delhi State taekwon-do team for National Games to be held at Imphal (Manipur):Black Belt: Firoz Mian (fin), Som Dutt (fly), Rajiv Gulati (bantam), Taj Mohammad (feather), Davender Kumar (light), Kiren Pal (welter), Davender Guar (midle), Samman Singh (heavy). Colour Belt: Shiv Kumar (fin), Vijay Kumar (fly), Avinash Chand (Bantam), Deepak Kumar (feather), Arvind Maurya (light), Narender Sharma (welter), Ramender Kumar (middle), Anil Kumar (heavy). Women: Sandeep Kumari (fin), Sumitra (fly), Reena Rawat (bantam), Rekha (feather), Harminder (light), Jyoti Nagpal (welter), Megha Bist (middle), Jaya (heavy).Coaching campDelhi Taekwon-do Association will organise a coaching camp for its team for the National Games from January 19 to February 10 at Pt Yadram Public School, Bhajanpura between 3 pm to 5 pm.Amit sparklesExcellent batting by Amit (64 not out) helped F & B-I beat Stewarding by seven wickets to reach in the semi-final of Taj Palace Hotel inter-departmental tournament.Brief scores: F&B-I: 132 for 3 (Amit 64 not out, Ratnakar 2 for 32) bt Stewarding: 128 for 9 (Rajinder 32, Ratnakar 37, Subha 2 for 17, Shriniwashan 2 for 18, Sandeep Mahajan 2 for 22).
