Laiba Ijaz clinched the trophy of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Super League Women Squash Championship played here at PAF Jansher Khan Squash Complex on Sunday. With the victory against Nimra Aqeel, Laiba was remained unbeaten in the 15 Super League matches and got first position. Both Laiba Ijaz and Nimra Aqeel gave each other a tough fight in the final.
The score was 12-10, 11-9 and 11-7. Laiba exhibited some good nick, drops and smashes against Nimra Aqeel. Nimra gave a good fight to Laiba but she missed target some services besides hitting the tin on couple of occasions.
Hira Aqeel took third position in the League, Maira, Sana Sher, Maryum, Kalsoom, Zohra, Eman, Eman Jabeen, Aqsa, Zahwa, Aysha, Dua, Anum were the other position holders of the League.
Brigadier Samad Khan (Retd) was the chief guest on this occasion. Championship sponsor Sher Bahadar Khan, former World Champion Qamar Zaman, Officials of the PAF Sports Board Control Committee, Jansher Coach Mehbood Khan, Chief Refree PSF Munawar Zaman, coach Riaz Khan, officials, players and large number of spectators witnessed the final.
The two-week Championship is aimed at to select three teams of District Nowshera, Charsadda and Peshawar for the forthcoming KP Inter-District Under-23 Games to be organised in March this year.
Speaking on this occasion, Qamar Zaman said that they have organised Super League for both male and female in order to give ample opportunities to the players to show their potential before being short-listed for the teams.
Earlier, Brigadier Samad Khan (Retd gave away trophies and cash prizes and expressed the hope that such activities would continue so that the players could come up at national and international levels.