Brunnel, Ronnie, Deepak brace up their teams

RESULTS

Boys Under-16 II-A: St. Francis D’Assisi, Borivli `B’ 2 (Pilankar Devraj, Shringi Vishal) bt Gyan kendra, Andheri 1 (Rahul Ghosh). II-B: St. Xavier’s, Vile Parle 2 (Brunel Sequeira 2) bt St. Theresa’s, Girgaum 0; Holy Name, Colaba 2 (Deepak Dubey 2) bt Our Lady of Salvation, Dadar 1 (Adrian Mascarenhas). II-D: St. Paul’s, Dadar 2 (Anthony Fernandes, Paul Faruk) bt St. Joseph’s, Vikhroli 0; Don Bosco, Matunga `B’ 1 (Sydney Paul) drew with ANZA, Byculla 1 (Waseem Mulla). III-B: St. Joseph’s, Colaba 1 (Aslam Ekka)drew with St. Joseph’s, Wadala 1 (Kasmani Riyaaz). Under-14 (I-B): St. Mary’s, SSC 2 (Craig Soares, Yohan Rosario) bt St. Joseph’s, Colaba 0. I-C: Holy Family, Andheri `A’ 1 (Shelton D’Silva) bt St. Anne’s, Orlem 0; St. Dominic Savio, Andheri `A’ 1 (Charles Almeida) bt Sacred Heart, Santacruz 0. I-H: OLPS, Chembur 0 drew with Don Bosco, Borivli 0. II-C: St. Pius, Mulund 0 drew with Our Lady Salvation, Dadar 0. III-C: St. Blaise, Amboli 2 (Ronnie Alvares 2) bt St. Joseph’s, Orlem 0. III-D: St. Michael’s, Mahim 2 (Austin Trinidade, Abdul Qureshi) bt Holy Name, Colaba 0.

Yashodhan Gogte in lead

Yashodhan Gogte, a seventh standard student, defeated another youngster Mugdha Variyar to take the sole lead with 5 points from five rounds in group A of the Entrants Division Chess Tournament at the Zandu Pharmaceutical Canteen here today.

RESULTS

Group A (fifth round): Mugdha Variyar (4) lost to yashodhan Gogte (5); Ninant Pednekar (4.5) drew Anil Arora (4.5); R Kulkarni (4.5) bt K Shahukar (3.5);Niraj Dube (3.5) lost to M Ketkar (4); Sachin Bansode (3) lost to Ivel D’Souza (4); Sachin Sale (4) bt Rithvik Hegde (3); H Ambardekar (4) bt Abhijit Patil (3); Prachi Kushte (4) bt Vinit Rai (3); Nitin Pednekar (4) bt S Ghotgalkar (3); Vijay Sherla (4) bt Karan Ajinkya (3).

Upadhye prevails

Pravin Upadhye dropped the second game before overcoming Sidharth Singh in the third round of the Vanita Samaj Ranking Badminton tournament here today. Upadhye won 15-9, 2-15, 15-12.

Results: Sub-junior boys (2nd round): Vishwas Nilkanthan bt Satyajeet Deshpande 17-15, 15-7; Anish Kanekar bt Sidharth Gupta 15-8, 15-3; Rushabh Agarwal bt Himanshu Pendse 15-3, 15-5; Rohit Sadani bt Kumar Ravindran 15-5, 15-3; Sachin Seth bt Sahil Jaffer 15-0, 15-2; Chinmay Kane bt Arohan singh 15-3, 15-6; Anish Sadanand bt Abhishek Phatraphekar 15-9, 15-9; Pravin Upadhaye bt Siddharth Singh 15-9, 2-15, 15-12.

Midget girls (3rd round): Ridhi Panjwani bt Archana Asgaonkar 11-0, 11-0; Spoorti Rattan bt Gopinath 11-7, 11-2;Soumya Padhye bt Maitreyee Korgaonkar 11-4, 11-6; Aditi Mahajan Rima Zaveri 11-4, 11-9; Jui Agaskar bt Anagha Bhide 11-9, 11-8; Maitreyee Nigwekar bt Sonal More 6-11, 11-8, 11-2; Neha Rane bt Varsha Shanbhag 11-0, 11-0; Shweta Khare bt Amruta Phadye 11-3, 11-4.

Mhatre in semis

Despite a break to finish by Mohd Saji in the second game, Nandakumar Mhatre won 25-6, 25-23 to move into the semi-finals of the Kshatriya Union Club Carrom Tournament. The tournament is being sponsored by Philips, Colgate, IOC, UBI and Saraswat Bank.

Results: (quarter-finals): Ashok Gurav bt Dinesh Boricha 25-9, 4-25, 25-16; Nandakumar Mhatre bt Mohd Sajid 25-6, 25-23; Nagsen Etambe bt Manu Baria 25-6, 25-24; Mahendra Tambe bt Suhas Pomendaker 25-12, 25-19.