Owais enters Junior
Snooker semifinal

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Owais Baba entered into the semifinal of Junior Snooker in the ongoing 16th J&K State Inter District Billiards and Snooker Championship being played at Billiards Hall, M.A. Stadium here today......more

CM inaugurates
para-gliding camp

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

Jammu, Nov 25: Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today inaugurated 7-day para-gliding adventure camp at Chinta near Bhadarwah.........more

HSS Domana claims
Girls title in Softball
Championship

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Higher Secondary School Domana defeated M.A. Stadium Club by 10-0 in the final to claim Women title in Jammu District Softball Championship...more

Kathua Blues thrash
Little Flower

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Kathua Blues thrashed Little Flower by 77 runs in the ongoing GKR Memorial Twenty-20 Cricket......more

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UCB honours State
International Gymnasts

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: United Colors of Benetton (UCB) today honoured five International Gymnasts for their fine performance in the recently concluded World Aerobic Gymnastics........more

IIIrd Division North Zone National Football
Chandigarh, BSF
win opening ties

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Chandigarh Football Club defeated Uttar Pradesh Police (U.P.) by 2-0 in the inaugural match of the IIIrd......more

J&K to lock horns with
Haryana in NZ Korfball final

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Hosts J&K will take on defending Champion Haryana in the final of the 2nd North Zone Korfball Championship being played at Green Field, Gandhi Nagar.........more

Jammu Tigers to
face Haryana Heroes
for title clash

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Jammu Tigers will clash with Haryana Heroes in the final tomorrow in....more

     
 

Owais enters Junior Snooker semifinal

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Owais Baba entered into the semifinal of Junior Snooker in the ongoing 16th J&K State Inter District Billiards and Snooker Championship being played at Billiards Hall, M.A. Stadium here today.

In the league matches of quarterfinals played today, Younus beat Pallav Gupta by 3-1 and Umar Farooq by 3-2 frames 45-55, 31-70, 84-28, 68-40 and 51-50.

Dilawar Mir registered a narrow win over Pallav Gupta by 3-2 frames 63-12, 39-74, 45-51, 62-43 and 61-55. But in the next game, he lost to Umar Farooq by 3-2 frames in a keenly contested match. The frame score was 33-65, 94-32, 46-68, 81-53 and 83-24.

Nikhil Kapahi beat Owais Baba by 3-0 frames.

The officials in the match were Rakesh, Surjit Singh and Shanker Dass.

The tournament is being organised by the J&K Billiards and Snooker Association and sponsored by J&K State Sports Council.

The semifinals will be played tomorrow at 11 am.

CM inaugurates para-gliding camp

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

Jammu, Nov 25: Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today inaugurated 7-day para-gliding adventure camp at Chinta near Bhadarwah.

Fifteen youth of the area are participating in the camp to get training in para-gliding, rock-craft, mountaineering and river-crossing.

Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister said that adventure tourism has attained significant place globally and Jammu and Kashmir is one of the choicest place for encouraging and expanding adventure tourism. "Our sky-kissing mountains, rough and tough brooks and streams and mighty rivers flowing from high altitudes are full of adventure for adventurers to discover new aspects of mountaineering, rock-climbing, river-rafting and para-gliding", he said.

Mr. Azad said that departments concerned with tourism have been given instructions to promote adventure tourism and showcase its feasibility and potential to outside world along with other tourism related programmes.

The Chief Minister said that such training in adventure tourism would generate lot of employment avenues for the locals.

Referring to various demands projected by the locals on the occasion including improvement of Bhadarwah-Chinta road, construction of motorable road from Jai Ghati to Sabar Dhar, speeding up work on Ghati-Ghuraka Shiva and other roads in the area besides improving healthcare and education facilities, Mr Azad said that these would be looked into.

HSS Domana claims Girls title in Softball Championship

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Higher Secondary School Domana defeated M.A. Stadium Club by 10-0 in the final to claim Women title in Jammu District Softball Championship which concluded at Higher Secondary School, Domana today.

Domana Club trounced SOS HG School by 6-5 in a pulsating contest to clinch U/17 Boys title.

In Men section, MA Stadium Association defeated Ever Green Club by 7-2 in the final. Captain Madan scored two goals while Virender, Ashwani, Yogesh and Manjeet scored one goal each.

Navneet Mishra, Chairman, JK College, who was the chief guest on the occasion, gave away winner and runner up trophies to the teams.

C.L. Bhat, General Secretary, J&K Softball Association was also present on the occasion.

More than 150 students from different schools clubs participated in the two day long championship.

Kathua Blues thrash Little Flower

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Kathua Blues thrashed Little Flower by 77 runs in the ongoing GKR Memorial Twenty-20 Cricket Tournament played at GGM Science College today.

Kathua Blues won the toss and chose to bat first.

They made 151/5 in the allotted 20 overs. Himalaya Sadhotra was the top scorer, who played a fine knock of 39 runs with the help of 3 boundaries.

Sandeep Singh also contributed useful 25 runs followed by Aditya and Paras, who scored 16 runs each.

For Little Flower, Rahul and Suchet grabbed two wickets each.

In reply, Little Flower was all out for just 74 runs in 12.3 overs.

Rahul played a fighting knock of 25 runs before he got out. Amarpreet and Anil also played well for their knocks of 14 runs each.

For Kathua Blues, Paras was the most successful bowler, who scalped three wickets while Anshuman, Vishwajeet and Farooq took two wickets each.

Paras for his brilliant all round performance was adjudged the Man of the Match.

The umpires in the match were Pappu and Santa Singh. The scorers were Mohit Puri and Rajeev Kumar.

The tournament is being organised by RCA and sponsored by Shree Toyota, Indian Oil Corporation, Pepsi, Jammu Motors and Sangari Automobiles.

Tomorrow, New Modern College will face KAWA- Gandhi Nagar in the next match to be played at the same venue.

UCB honours State International Gymnasts

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: United Colors of Benetton (UCB) today honoured five International Gymnasts for their fine performance in the recently concluded World Aerobic Gymnastics Championship held at Bangkok (Thailand) from November 3-5.

Mayank Jain bagged bronze medal in Youth Group in the Championship.

Aninash Bhatia, Prop. United Colors of Benetton honoured the gymnasts namely Seema, Manpreet, Manvinder, Mayank Jain and Jaskaran.

This is for the second time that UCB honoured the gymnasts for their commendable performance in International Championship.

IIIrd Division North Zone National Football
Chandigarh, BSF win opening ties

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Chandigarh Football Club defeated Uttar Pradesh Police (U.P.) by 2-0 in the inaugural match of the IIIrd Division League North Zone National Football Championship which commenced at Jammu University Football Field here today.

Sunil Sharma scored the first goal for Chandigarh in the 33rd minute, when he received a fine pass from left flank. At half time, Chandigarh was leading by 1-0.

In the second half, U.P. tried their best to level the lead but failed to capitalize on the chances. Chandigarh, on the other side, continued their aggresive display as Harminder Singh scored the 2nd goal in the 47th minute through a penalty.

The penalty was awarded to Chandigarh as a result of foul play by Jagmohan Rawat, U.P. goalkeeper, who tripped the ball inside the penalty area.

Both teams missed one chance each in the 25th and 27th minute. In the 25th minute, No.9 Deepak of Chandigarh almost put the ball in the goal post but Jagmohan Rawat made a fine save.

In the 27th minute, Pramod Mishra of U.P. missed a corner hit.

The officials in the match were Sevy Joseph (Kerala), Kamar Hussain (Kerala), Deepak K. Dev (Assam) and Barun Saha (IFA).

In the second match, BSF (Punjab) mauled Himalayan Tigers (H.P.) by whopping 10-0 goals in a pretty one sided contest.

BSF dominated the game right from the start.

P.V. Ekla struck in the 7th minute to score the first goal for BSF followed by Santosh and Kamal who scored goals in the 22nd and 30th minute.

The other goal scorers for the winner team were Kamal (30th min), Samrat Choudhary (35th min), J.Onseph (39th minute), Kamal (42nd min), Rajbeer Singh (47th min), Kamal (50th min), Samrat Choudhary (65th min) and Sukhvinder Singh (69th min).

At half time, BSF was comfortably placed with 6-0 lead.

The officials in the match were Rocky Fernandes (WIFA Maharashtra),

Irfan Ullah Khan (Karanataka), Ramesh Subramanium (WIFA Maharashtra) and Himesh Burman (Assam). Shambu Nath Shou of West Bengal is the Match Commissioner in the abovesaid Championship.

Earlier, Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, Vice- Chancellor, Jammu University was the chief guest on the occasion, who declared open the Championship.

Ashok Angurana, (IAS), Principal Secretary Higher Education and other members of the J&K Football Association were also present on the occasion.

Tomorrow, host J&K would start their campaign against Uttaranchal Police (Uttaranchal) in the first match whereas Amity United (Haryana) will take on Shastri Football Club (Delhi) in the second match to be played at the same venue.

J&K to lock horns with Haryana in NZ Korfball final

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Hosts J&K will take on defending Champion Haryana in the final of the 2nd North Zone Korfball Championship being played at Green Field, Gandhi Nagar.

On the second day of the championship, Haryana defeated Uttaranchal by 22-8 in a one sided contest.

Parveen with 7 goals was the top scorer for the winner team whereas Ashish also played well by scoring 5 goals for Uttaranchal.

In the second match, J&K humbled Himachal Pradesh by 19-12 in a keen contest. At half time, J&K was leading by 8-4. International player, Manjeet Singh scored highest 6 goals while Jevy Kant and Vinod scored 4 goals each.

In other matches played today, Haryana beat Chandigarh by 13-3, Punjab drew with Uttaranchal 9-9, J&K beat Chandigarh by 13-3, Punjab beat Himachal Pradesh by 9-8 and Chandigarh beat Uttaranchal by 10-5.

The final will be played tomorrow at 10.30 am at the same venue.

Jammu Tigers to face Haryana Heroes for title clash

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Jammu Tigers will clash with Haryana Heroes in the final tomorrow in the ongoing Sher-e-Kashmir Korfball Gold Cup Tournament being played at Green Field, Gandhi Nagar.

In the semifinals played today, Jammu Tigers outclassed V.N Korfball Club, Haryana by 14-9 while Haryana Heroes defeated G.N. Club by 12-10.

Earlier, in the quarterfinals played today, Haryana Heroes beat Dun Korfball Club (Dehradun) by 13-4, Guru Nanak Korfball Club, Jammu beat B.B.N. Korfball Club, Joginder Nagar (H.P.) by 19-8, V.N. Korfball Club beat Patiala by 14-8 and Jammu Tigers beat Bilaspur Sports Club (H.P.) by 12-7.

The final of the tournament will be played tomorrow at 3 pm.


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