Bedade, Sugwekar lift cloud over Sun-Grace

Mumbai, Nov 29: Tata Sports Club and Sun-Grace Mafatlal did not have to wait for the third day to enter the final of the Times Shield ...

Mumbai, Nov 29: Tata Sports Club and Sun-Grace Mafatlal did not have to wait for the third day to enter the final of the Times Shield A8217; Division cricket tournament. Indian Oil accepted defeat at lunch on the second day itself in their match against Tatas at the Elf-Vengsarkar Academy, while Air-India conceded theirs at Police Gymkhana against SunGrace at draw of stumps.

Chasing Indian Oil8217;s 142, Tatas reached 215 for six by lunch. At Police Gymkhana, last year8217;s runners up SunGrace piled up 323 for eight before A-I threw in the towel.

Resuming at 88 for 4, Tatas flourished courtesy fifth wicket pair of captain Lalchand Rajput and left-hander Nishit Shetty 44, who added 94. Rajput remained unbeaten on 85 151b, 14215;4, 2215;6.

Air-India, resuming at 252 for six, were bowled out for 275. Medium pacer Omkar Salvi was the wrecker-in-chief with seven for 62 in 23.1 overs.

Sun-Grace were tottering at 53 for 4, before the fifth wicket pair of Shantanu Sugvekar 96: 169b, 6215;4, 4215;6 and southpaw Atul Bedade126: 102b, 12215;4, 8215;6 performed the repair job. Both batted freely to add 189 runs.

Brief scores: Indian Oil 142 lost to Tata8217;s 215-6 Lalchand Rajput 85 not out, Nishit Shetty 44, Iqbal Siddque 3-61, Manish Patel 3-50; Air-India 275 Sanjay Manjrekar 106, Tariq-ur-Rehman 51, Nandan Phadnis 61; Omkar Salvi 7-62, Rajesh Pawar 3-87 lost to Sun-Grace 323-8 Shantanu Sugvekar 96, Atul Bedade 126; Narendra Hirwani 3-98, Tariq-ur-Rehman 3-24.

Indian Gym fight back
Indian Gymkhana overcame an 18-point half-time deficit and pipped hosts Ghatkopar YMCA A 71-68 to enter the quarter-final of the 12th Bombay YMCA Open basketball tournament sponsored by Kanara Engineering.

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Results
Mini boys: Indian Gymkhana 63 Akshay G 8, Pankaj 12, Venkatesh Chari 12 bt Andheri YMCA 21 Pranav K 8, Nagesh K 8, Agradneya VS 27 Saurabh K 10 bt Wellingdon YMCA B 3 Irfan Mohammed 3, Wellingdon YMCA A 58 Jamir Khan 25, Siraj Ansari 13, Shaikh Afzal 8, Ansari Shadab 4 bt St Pius 10, NNH 42HK Kannan 12, R Ramat 10, K Mubshaer 8 bt Ghatkopar YMCA 5 Ramji Gupta 4, Jason 1.

Men: Indian Gymkhana 71 Mahesh N 19, Ashok 19, M Vinod 14 bt Ghatkopar YMCA 68 Manoj Chaudhary 26, Francis Pereira 16, Nitin Abel 15. HT 25-43.

Don Bosco impress
Don Bosco A, Matunga, drubbed Sundatta 87-2 in the boys U-16 section of the MSSA-Colgate Inter-school basketball tournament at Azad Maidan today.

Results
Boys: Don Bosco 87 Rohan Kumar 29, Dinesh Naik 19, Robin Rodrigues 14 bt Sundatta 2 Puran Singh 2. HT: 43-0; IES VN Sule w.o. Anjuman Urdu; Naval Public 44 Sandipan 24 bt MH Saboo Siddique 6. HT: 20-2.

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Girls: St Anne8217;s B, Fort 28 Arurvika S 8, Sumreen S 8 bt St Sebastian Goan 2 Kimal Shah 2. HT: 20-2; IES Chandrakant Patkar w.o. Fr Agnelo, Malad; Amulakh Amichand w.o. Jamnabai Narsee.

Pinto power fuels Anne8217;s
Jack Pinto scored four in St Anne8217;s 8-0 win over Holy Family School in the boys8217; under-16 league of the MSSA-Colgate Inter-school hockeytournament at St Andrew8217;s, Bandra. Prashant Fernandes 2, Reuben Bent and Lawrence Soares were the other scorers.

Results
Boys8217; U-16: St Anne8217;s Orlem 8 Jack Pinto 4, Prashant Fernandes 2, Reuben Bent, Lawrence Soares bt Holy Family High School 0.

Girls8217; under-16: St Francis Xavier 4 Sagdhab Shweta 3, Saumya George bt Canossa Andheri 1 Aditi Bhatnagar; Apostolic Carmel 10 Rosita Coelho 3, Vanessa Bothelo 2, Vanessa Natto, Rasina Masceranhas, Adriana Pinto, Manisa Phabnis, Priyanka Shringapore bt St Joseph Convent B Bandra 0.

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Fr Agnel score
Father Agnel Gymkhana Navi Mumbai scored a 2-0 win over Ecstacy Sports Club in the opening match of the second Western India Football Association8217;s women8217;s tournament at the Cooperage today. Carol D8217;Souza and Laura Fernandes were the goal-scorers.

Quennie Mendes scored a brace while Remedy Mamata Salian scored the other goal for Remedy Lourdes Combine who beat Ace Ventures 3-0 in another match.