NARZARY, NIRMAl, PAUl JOIN DSK
Pune: DSK Shivajians FC on Thursday completed the signing of Halicharan Narzary, Nirmal Chettri and Subrata Paul from Indian Super league outfit NorthEast United FC for the upcoming I-league season starting next month. lallianzuala Chhangte and Jerry Mawihmingthanga have also returned to the club from the Guwahati-based ISl franchise. In 22-year-old forward Narzary, DSK Shivajians will look to add youthful exuberance in their attack. Blessed with great pace, the attacker from Assam can play both on the wings as well as upfront. Narzary, a product of SAI and the AIFF Youth Academies, has made seven senior national team appearances till date.
GERRARI OFFROADERS IN lEAD
Dambuk Valley: Chandigarh-based Gerrari Offroaders stormed into the lead as the JK Tyre-Orange 4x4 Fury offloading challenge got off to a spectacular start here at the picturesque lower Dibang Valley. The four-member team, comprising two cars each, led by drivers Sanbir Dhaliwal and Padam Chauhan overcame all the obstacles in 10.41 minutes with the excited crowd cheered them on. They were ably assisted by co-drivers Gurpartap Singh and Maneet Sandhu, as they manoeuvred past one 10-foot long pit after another using two long planks which were barely as wide as the tyres.
GURPREET lEADS ARMYMEN'S SWEEP
Pune: Olympian Gurpreet Singh led an Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) clean sweep in the finals of the men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event at the 60th National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) here on Thursday. Gurpreet topped the qualifying stage with an aggregate of 579 and then went on to shoot a score of 35 in the six-man final at the Balewadi Sports Complex here. Teammate Neeraj Kumar, who shot 29, took the silver while another AMU man and former Olympic silver medalist Vijay Kumar bagged the bronze with a score of 24. Gurpreet bagged his second gold when he, Vijesh Kumar and Rajesh Kumar won the team gold in the event with a combined score of 1699.
UBA PRO PERFORMANCE CAMP
Phoenix: After an exciting third season of the UBA Pro Basketball league in July, the United Basketball Alliance have selected 15 of the top performing players from India to train at the 2nd annual USA Pro Performance camp in Phoenix, Arizona for a two week camp this December. The players, who represented different teams during the third season of the UBA Pro Basketball league have been selected from a ground camp at Bengaluru before they were chosen for the all-expense paid training camp. The 15 UBA stars include Siddhanth Shinde, Ajinkya Mane, Prudhvi Reddy, Gurvinder Singh, Manu Thomas among others.