Haryana XI enter final

JALANDHAR, Dec 21: Haryana XI entered the final in the women's section of the second All-India Ramesh Chand Memorial hockey tournament de...

JALANDHAR, Dec 21: Haryana XI entered the final in the women’s section of the second All-India Ramesh Chand Memorial hockey tournament despite losing their last league match to Sukhjit Starch Mill (Phagwara) here today.The winners Sukhjit Mills led 2-0 at half time.

The goal scorers for the winners were Harbinder Kaur, Rajbinder Kaur and A R Kaur for the Haryana XI while Sarika scored the lone goal.

In the men’s league encounters, Last year’s winners, Punjab and Sind Bank were locked in a 1-1 draw with the last year’s runners up, Punjab Police.

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In other matches in the men’s section SAIL beat Air India 3-1 while Satluj PSB Academy drew 1-1 with CRPF.

Punjab team
Chandigarh: Hari Krishan will lead Punjab in the All-India Vijay Merchant (under 16) cricket tournament. The knock-out stage will beging from December 5 at Patiala. Punjab were the North Zone champions while Haryana were the other team to qualify for this stage, being the zonal runners up.

A combined coaching-cum-pratice camp for the team will be held at Patiala from December 25 to January 3. Team: Hari Krishan (Capt), Binwant Singh, Amit Chopra, Vikram Sodhi, Nagesh Gupta, Rajeev Jolly, Amit Behl, Manik Kohli, Chandan Madan, Harish Puri, Varun Mishra, S P Singh, Rajan Singh, Varun Gupta, Ranjeet Singh and Vikram Jit Singh. Manager: Sunil Saggi.

Haryana’s honour
Hisar: The Haryana State Women Hockey Association will felicitate five players of the state who were part of the Indian women hockey team which won silver medal at the Bangkok Asian Games.

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The players – skipper Pritam Rani, Kamla Dalal, Sunita, Sandeep and Surender Kaur – would be felicitated during a tournament at the month end at Agroha in Hisar District, Krishna Sampat Singh, president of the association said here today.

Meanwhile, the Haryana State Amateur Athletic Association has also decided to honour athletes Shakti Singh and Anil Kumar who won silver medals in shot put and discuss throw respectively at a function next month, president of the association Abhey Singh Chautala said in a statement here today.

Veera Devi cricket
Ludhiana: Malwa Club defeated Sports Club by 59 runs in the opening match of the sixth Veera Devi Memorial cricket tournament being played here.

Brief Scores: Malwa Club: 159 for 5 (Harjeet 46, Devinder 42, Harpal 39; Aman Seth 2-38, Gandhi 2-17) beat Sports Club: 100 for 6 (Aman 28, Mani 17; Harmeet 2-14, Jagdev 2-11).

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Ludhiana Club: 125 for 6 (Kamal Krishan 37, Shiva 25, Robin 23, Anuj Khanna 20; Ajay 2-18) lost to Shastri Club: 126 for 1 (Anil Singla 46 n.o, Bhuvnesh 33, Jatin 29 n.o)

Rural soccer
Hoshiarpur: Kherar, Kalewal Bhagtan, Langeri Red and Nangal Khilarian entered the last 16 of the 18th Punjab Rural soccer championship being played at the village Nangal Khilarian near here today.

Kherar beat Bhullewal 1-0, Kalewal Bhagtan beat Chandeli 2-0, Langeri Redbeat Khera 4-2 (via tie-breaker) and Nangal Khilarian beat Makhangarh 1-0.

In other matches, Jaitpur beat Dhakkon 4-1, Sarangwal beat Chak Mallan 1-0, Nangal Khilarian `B’ beat Sakrooli 1-0 while Gujar got a walkover from Rampur.