Ravi Tikku Memorial Speed Ball C’ship concludes

Winners displaying certificates and medals while posing for a group photograph at Jammu on Saturday.
Winners displaying certificates and medals while posing for a group photograph at Jammu on Saturday.

Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, May 6: The 2nd edition of Ravi Tikku Speed Ball tournament, organized by J&K Sports Speedball Association in collaboration with International Daily Rising School Jammu, concluded here today.
The tournament was declared open by Reema Tikku wife of late Ravi Tikku at Indoor Sports Complex, International Daily Rising School.
A total of 250 players from 20 schools from four different districts namely Jammu, Kathua, Samba and Udhampur participated in the championship.
Sandeep Mehta, SSP was the chief guest of the closing ceremony along with Munish Gupta and Vijay Bakaya as special guests. Dr. NM Tikku (Brother of Ravi Tikku), Raghav Gupta (M.D International Daily Rising School), Dr Atul Hans (Director Academics International Daily Rising School) along with Association bearers including Pooja Malhotra (Founder Patron), Renu Devi (Member) and Meera Thusho (Member) were present during the event.
SSP Sandeep Mehta applauded the efforts of Sunny Nanda (General Secretary JKSSB) for organizing this memorial championship and gave a tribute to Ravi Tikku and providing opportunities to budding players of different schools.
The vote of thanks was given by Reema Tikku (Wife of Ravi Tikku).
The gold medal winners were Kabir Singh (CPS), Ruchit Kumar (DHSS), Rehan (JSS), Tanmay Verma (JSS), Vinayak Sharma (CPS),Yash Parvan (UIS), Nishant Kumar (APS Udhampur), Samiksha Choudhary (SNS), Rajveer Singh (RMPS),Mohd Yarir (SNS), Sadhya Sharma (SNS), Prafful (JSS), Pranshi Dogra (DHSS), Ayush (APS Udhampur), Sushant Kumar (DHSS), Rehan (SDTPS) and Dhruv Choudhary (Samba).
Double solo team winners were Dhanista & Kavi Devi (UIS), Ridhima & Divyanshi (CPS), Mannat & Liza (JSS), Simrah & Sumaira (RMPS), Mannat & Deepakshi (SDTPS) and Tamana & Bhavishika (APS Udhampur).