Jr squash enters final stage

Published August 15, 2008

LAHORE, Aug 14: While Shoaib Hussain (Punjab) and Waqas Mehboob (NWFP) qualified for the boys’ National Junior squash championship final, Zoya Khalid and Aliya Sarfaraz, after winning their respective semi-finals, will face each other in an all-Punjab girls’ final on Thursday.

Results:

Semi-finals:

Boys (Under-11): Shan (PAF) bt Israr Ahmed (Pb) 8/10, 9/6, 9/3, 0/9, 9/5; Ashan (PAF) bt Marwan (PAF) 9/2, 7/9, 9/5, 9/7.

UNDER-13: Aamad Farid (Pb) bt M. Tayyab Aslam (Pb) 9/6, 9/3, 5/9, 9/2; M. Asim Khan (Pb) bt Arbab Aizaz (PAF) 9/4, 9/6, 4/9, 9/4.

UNDER-15: Bilal Zakir (PAF) bt Moin Rauf (Pb) 9/6, 9/6, 9/3; Ali Bukhari (Pb) bt Rizwan Gul (PAF) 9/1, 9/2, 9/5.

UNDER-17: Haroon Samad (Pb) bt Sadam-Ul-Haq (PAF) 9/3, 6/9, 9/5, 9/5; Nasir Iqbal (PAF) bt Ali Raza (Balochistan) 9/0, 9/1, 9/1. UNDER-19: Shoaib Hassan (Pb) bt Sheikh Saqib (Pb)9/5, 9/3, 9/1; Waqas Mehboob (NWFP) bt Aurangzeb Mehmund (Pb) 6/9, 9/0, 9/6, 9/4.

Girls (Under-15): Riffat Khan (Pb) bt Kiran (Pb) 9/0, 9/1, 9/0; Habiba Khan (Sindh) bt Anzalna (Pb) 9/0, 9/1, 9/0.

UNDER-19: Zoya Khalid (Pb) bt Andleeb Younas (Pb) 9/4, 9/0, 9/1; Aliya Sarfaz (Pb) bt Hina Bashir (Pb) 9/2, 9/0, 9/1.

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