A CONTINGENT of 38 players and officials on Wednesday left for Patoda in Haryana to participate in the 38th Sub Junior National Softball Championship. The four-day event will be organised in Sanskaran University, Patoda, District Jhajjar in Haryana from January 9. Chhattisgarh Softball team consists of 16 boys and girls each accompanied by four coaches and two managers. Ahead of the scheduled departure, a selection training programme was organised in the Softball Ground of Pt Ravishankar Shukla University campus in Raipur from December 21 to 29.

 

It was followed by a training camp for the initially selected players and after selection of prospective players the final list of team members was announced for the national championship. Players selected to participate in the boys’ category concists of Rahul Ekka, Sumit Khalkho and Vimlesh Ekka from Jashpur, Lakshya Nishad, Surya Kadti and Abil Michcha from Bijapur, Shubham Sen, Pankaj Meravi and Chandresh Kumar Korram from Kabirdham, Lokesh Nayak and Sumit Sabarwal from Raipur, Aryan Patel from Durg, Ramanand Mishra from Korba, Rohit Rajput from Rajnandgaon, and Komal Patil and Raju Nishad from Bemetara. Virendra Nayak and Gaurav Dahariya accompanied the team as coaches with Sarang Netam is the team manager.

 

Similarly, players selected in the girl’s category to represent the state are Triveni Marpalli, Asmita Marpalli, Anuradha Kovasi, Rinky Hemla and Shilpa Marpalli from Bijapur, Simran Khalkho, Sapna Khalkho, Aradhana Tigga and Sonia Ekka from Jashpur, Sarita Sinha and Kevra Nishad from Bemetara, Sujal Meshram and Rohini Yadav from Rajnandgaon, Aastha Waghade from Durg; Poonam Koparkar from Raipur and Soumya Chandrakar from Kawardha. Sonali Sau and Preeti Verma are coaches for girls while Anju Tandi is team manager.