Lahore wins Annual Punjab Sports Board Calendar 2019 Boxing event title
Lahore division won over other 9 competing districts and was crowned the champion of the Boxing event of Annual Punjab Sports Board Calendar 2019 (phase two) which is being held across the country.
Lahore's Under-16 boxing team emerged to stand as the winner when it accomplished the victory of the event by 102 points. Lahore team was followed by Gujranwala, who scored 53 points and Sargodha team settled for the third spot with 52 points. Other division were able to score: Faisalabad 43 points, Multan 37 points, Bahawalpur 27 points, Rawalpindi 22 points, Sahiwal 18 and DG Khan 6 points.
The girls Cricket event was also contested in the Annual Sports Calendar 2019's second phase in which yet again, the Lahore team won by completely crushing the Sahiwal team on a huge margin of nine wickets in the match played at Lahore College for Women University ground.
Sahiwal girls scored 44 runs for the loss of three wickets while playing first in the allotted overs. Aqsa and Anam remained top scorers with 19 and 18 runs respectively.
Halima Dua of Lahore grabbed one wicket while two Sahiwal players were dismissed run out. In response, Lahore chased the target after losing just one wicket 4.2 overs. Halima Dua also showed her glorious batting form scoring 30 runs with the help of five boundaries. Tayyaba Zulfiqar contributed 10 runs. KinzaNadeem took the only fallen wicket for Sahiwal.
In another clash in same sport, Faisalabad claimed the victory by beating Multan on 25 runs. Sargodha girls remained triumphant by nine wickets against Gujranwala in the third match at the same venue.
In the boys Cricket event, Sahiwal won over Gujranwala by 26 runs at Punjab University New Campus groundas the Sahiwal boys scored 70 runs while playing first. In reply, Gujranwala bundled out for 44 and lost the match by
26 runs.
Kabaddi event winners are Sargodha and Faisalabad as both the teams defeated their respective opponents that were: Lahore and Multan by the stunning performances of their Under-16 players as the team gathered 41 points as compared to 22 by Lahore and Faisalabad team scored 35 points while Multan players could accumulate only 13 points. Sahiwal overwhelmed DG Khan by 12 points in the third match of the day. Sahiwal scored 31 points in comparison to DG Khan’s 19.
The honorable guest of honor, Director General Sports Punjab, Nadeem Sarwar witnessed these games being played and at the end, congratulated Lahore Under-16 boxing team for their high achievement among the other 9 competing divisions.
