My Youth My Pride: More athletes join the fray as Jammu hosts more events

NL Correspondent
Jammu, Sep 20: A Fencing competition in Epee, Foil and Sabre events for boys and girls was held in Indoor Sports Complex Jammu.
The competitions for Sub Junior, Cadet,,Junior ,Senior and Mini categories are scheduled to be held late till night today. More than 100
fencers are taking part in the competition under the supervision of fencing coaches duo of Rachna Jamwal and
Chotu Lal while as Varun Salathia is technical official of the event and Deepak Singh patial HP Manager Khelo India Fencing Centre
Jammu is also supervising the event.
Rajeev Sharma Member Sports council and Bashir Ahmad Joint Secretary J&K Sports Council presided over the function as special
guests.
Meanwhile continuing with My Youth My Pride activities, a Handball Tournament was organised by J&K Sports Council in Sports
Stadium Kathua. The event was inaugurated by Er. Kumar Manjotra,
DDC member. The chief guest encouraged players to work hard in their respective sports disciplines and also encouraged spectators
to join sports for fitness to stay away from anti-social activities.
Eight teams drawn from different panchayats participated in the event. Hundreds of spectators were present at the venue to root for
their players.
A Cricket match was played in MA Stadium between Birpur Cricket Club and Kandi Cricket club which was won by Birpur Cricket club
by 6 runs.
Opting to bat earlier Birpur Cricket Club scored 120 runs in their quota of 20 overs and reply Kandi Cricket club were bundled out for
115. Rajiv Sharma Member J&K Sports Council interacted with the players before the start of the play and assured them a mega cricket
event shall be held at the venue for teams for other districts of Jammu.