November 18: Aakarsh Rai (6) of Model English, Dombivli, established himself as the sole leader in the boys under-10 category after the sixth round in the Bournvita Inter-school chess tournament. Aakarsh beat Sanju Malaikal (5) of St Stanislaus, with whom he was joint leaders at the end of the fifth round. Vaibhav Saxena of Fr Agnel and Sagar Sadavarte of Navi Mumbai share the lead in the tough boys open category at the end of the sixth round with 5.5 points each.Top seed Vaibhav (Elo 2164) lived up to expectations when he beat under-12 champion Sameer Thakkar of Jankidevi.Top seed Ketki Kulkarni of Chandrakant Patkar, the 1997 British Open winner, shares the lead with Trichi Chawla of Fr Agnel with 5.5 points each in the girls' under-10 section.The girls open section is wide open after six rounds with Niharika Thakkar of Jankidevi, Tanvi Thakur of St Anne's Borivli, Mugdha Variyar of Gokuldham, Leann Almeida of Mary Immaculate and Prajakta Yevle of Parle Tilak Vidyalaya in joint lead with fivepoints each.Results of 6th round:Open boys: Sameer Thakkar (4.5) lost to Vaibhav Saxena (5.5); Amar Kamat (5) drew with Devendra Sathe (5); Sagar Sadavarte (5.5) bt Wesley Falcao (4.5) ; Nikhil Kamath (5) drew with Archis Awate (4.5); Chandrashekhar (5) drew with Omkar Kulkarni (5).Boys u-10: Sanju Malaikal (5) lost to Aakarsh Rai (6); Rohil Bhat (5.5) bt Piyush Manudhane (4.5); Meghan Gupte (4.5) lost to Siddharth Nambiar (5.5); Sahil Majumdar (4.5) lost to Vishal Shah (5.5); Salim Ali (5) drew with Ishan Nadkarni (4.5).Open girls: Tanvi Thakur (5) drew with Niharika Thakkar (5); Smita Kundargi (4) lost to Mugdha Variyar (5); Leann Almeida (5) bt Priyanka Punjabi (4); Nilofer Abdulla (4) lost to Prajakta Yevle (5); Mrudula Nambiar (4.5) bt Pallavi Chitale (3.5).Girl under-10: Ketki Kulkarni (5.5) bt Monica Maskeri (5); Poorva Pathre (4) lost to Trichi Chawla (5.5); Tania Fernandez (4) lost to Saba Mhate (5); Kavya Pai (3.5) lost to Ruchita Lalmalani (5); Priyanka D'Souza (3.5) lost toSayali Phadke (4.5).Two share leadJM Utarid and Shashikant Kutwal shared the lead with 4.5 points after five rounds in the KD Publicity Open chess at Andheri Sports Complex today.Important results (Fifth-round): JM Utarid (4.5) drew with Anup Deshmukh (4); V Makwana (3.5) lost to S Kutwal (4.5); S Shastrabudhe (3) lost to Avinash Awate (4); Rashmin Pulekar (4) bt Deepak Tahane (3); VN Ghate (4) bt A Khalwadekar (3); S Pitale (3) lost to P Pande (4); A Subramaniam (2.5) lost to Vinod Solanki (3.5); Anil Arora (3) drew with Prasad Ghate (3).RCF, MbPT in finalRashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers (RCF) and Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) made the final of the IX Mumbai City District volleyball championship at the MbPT Sports Club ground, Mazagaon, today. RCF defeated Mumbai Police 25-14, 25-18 and MbPT Sport Club beat State Bank of India 25-19, 25-17.Chembur YMCA rallyChembur YMCA rallied from a 21-point half-time deficit to enter the final of the inaugural Acharya College U-22winter basketball league at Chembur today. Chembur beat hosts Acharya 58-43. In the other semi-final, Somaiya SC beat School of Basketball 71-54.Results: Chembur YMCA 58 (Sheldon Buthello 21, Santosh Rao 18, A Jude 10, S Ramkumar 9) bt Acharya 43 (Raphael Correia 13, Vitus Patel 8, Niraj Mahadik 14) HT 14-35; Somaiya 71 (Ralph Gomes 12, Kayron Gomes 20, Mark Fernandes 22, Pankaj Rane 8, Vishal Narwekar 8) bt SoB 54 (Chinmay Bhandarkar 12, Lino Gracias 22, Anil Pradhan 12).Fatima Boys heldFatima Boys were held 2-2 by Sea View in the Gulf Oil WIFA Division I football league at the Cooperage, today. Godfrey Rodrigues and Dinish D'Silva netted for Fatima. Tushar Chinche and Noel Fernandes restored parity for Sea View.
