Avinash surges ahead

MUMBAI, AUG 8: Fide-master Avinash Awate defeated Sashikant Kutwal in the seventh round of the Maharashtra State Selection Chess Tourname...

MUMBAI, AUG 8: Fide-master Avinash Awate defeated Sashikant Kutwal in the seventh round of the Maharashtra State Selection Chess Tournament to increase his lead to 6.5 points and moved one point clear of the field.Rashmin Pulekar, Kartik Vishwanathan, Ramakrishna Kashelkar, Ketan Boricha, Vinayak Ghate and G Balaji share the second position with 5.5 points.

Results (seventh round)

Awate (6.5) bt Kutwal (5); Kashelkar (5.5) drew Balaji (5.5); Karthik (5.5) drew Pulekar (5.5); Bhurke (4.5) lost to Boricha (5.5); Andurkar (4.5) lost to Ghate (5.5); Aidasani (5) drew Uday K (5); G Deshpande lost to Mokal (5); Gohad (4) lost to Thatte (5); Bhilare (4) lost Shalekar (5); Subramanium (4) lost to Mandre (5); Kolambkar (4) lost to Deshmukh (5); Naik (4) lost to Nevgi (5); Prasanna (5) bt Chandnani (4).

St Augustine, St Mary win

St Augustine and St Mary’s, Mira Road registered comfortable victories in the under-14 (4-K) Inter-Schools Football League match at the Azad Maidan here today. While StAugustine drubbed Cathedral & John Connon 5-0, St Mary’s routed Schjolar 4-0.

Results Under-16 (3-A): Our Lady of Health, Sahar 10 (Sheldon Alfonso 5, Jayesh Swamy 3, Colin Noronha, Robin D’Souza) bt Greenlawn’s, Worli 0. 3-B: St. Joseph’s, Wadala 1 (Kasmani Reyaaz) bt St. Xavier’s Boys Academy 0. 4-E: St. lawrence, Borivli 2 (Omkar Sambare, Ankit Kothari) bt St. Xavier’s, Borivli 0. 4-F: St. Pius X, Mulund 2 (Anchal Nihael Dexter, Roshan Baretto) drew Antonio D’Silva, Dadar 2 (Sagar Khatri, Sailesh Bhosale). 4-J: St. Aloysius, Bandra 1 (Vivek Saldanha) bt Bombay Scottish, Powai 0.

Under-14 (2-A): Seventh Day Adventist 2 (Ansari Zaid, Irfan Shaikh) bt St. Francis D’Assisi, Borivli B’ 0. 2-B: St. Lawrence, Vashi 1 (Lavjit Singh Sodhi) bt St. Joseph’s, Vikhroli 0. 4-D: Victoria, Mahim 0 drew Greenlawns BP 0. 4-K: St. Augustine, Nerul 5 (Jithin Verghese, Irshad Dave, Daewood Basha, Ajendra Nanitiyal Ramshankar Verma) bt Cathedral & John Connon 0; St. Mary’s, Mira Road 4 (Ranjit Kuttikattu, Prakash Chand,Mitesh Bangera, Subhash Kahar) bt Scholar 0.