The Punjab Sports Festival 2012 entered its 10th day with the competitions being held successfully throughout the provincial union councils.
In Lahore’s Union Council 93, badminton tournaments were held with Shehriar beating Mohammed Bilal 2-0, in UC 10, Fiaz beat Mohammed Awais 2-0, in UC 5, Arslan defeated Hassan 2-0, in UC 9, Hamza beat Azad Khan 2-0, in UC 92, Khalique outplayed Zubair 2-0, in UC 90, Zubair Khan beat Hamza 2-0, in UC 93, Zubair beat Jawad 2-0, in UC 11, Shokat outplayed Zahid 2-0 and UC 93, Bilal defeated Inam 2-0. In the cricket matches, Mohammed Akbar XI from UC 28, Imran XI from UC 30, Faisal XI from UC 68, Sheraz XI from UC 80 and Zahid from UC 69 won their respective matches. In Model Town, UC 130 badminton teams participated in which Nadeem Park defeated Mughal club 2-0. In Cantt/Shalamar, UC 41 team participated in which Combined XI beat Sajad XI, Hassan Abbas XI scored Chaudhry XI by 3 runs. Combined XI scored 63 runs win against Universal XI. In Football UCs 41, 43, 44, 45, 48, 54 and 55 got walkover. In athletics, UC 44, 5 players participated in four events, In UC 44, eight players participated in 5 events, in UC 48, 8 players participated in 6 events. The winning players were Sadaat, Mohammed Yasin, Aslam, Awais, Abdul Sami and Mazhar Awais. In cricket, UC 41 Waqar beat Imran 15-8. Maqsood beat Khalid 6-5. Asim beat Sanaullah 9-5. In UC 43, Rana Aslam beat Mohammad Maqsood 15-8. Sultan Ali beat Khalid Hussain 15-2. Hafiz Abbas beat Shoaib 15-6. In UC 44, Mazhar, Aslam, Shoaib and Tahir were the winners. In UC 48, Tariq beat Hammad 15-8, Mohsin beat Bilal 15-4, Faisal beat Farukh 15-0. In UC 54, Aslam Butt beat Mohsin 15-9, Usman Pervez beat Zubair 15-6. Nadeem beat Abbas 15-4. In Gujranwala, 16 union councils participated in cricket, 8 union councils in volleyball, 10 in football, 4 in kabaddi and 24 in badminton. In Faisalabad, 39 union councils participated in cricket, 21 in badminton, 10 in hockey, 5 in football, 14 in kabaddi and 18 in volleyball. Similarly a large number of union councils are participating in all cities at union councils level throughout Punjab. The union council events phase will conclude on February 2, (today) while the next phase of the events at Tehsil level will start from February 4 till 15.
