Columbus discover Inter-school semis spot with win over Vasant Vihar

Vasant Vihar were shot out for 49. Medium-pacers Namrata Ghag (4 for 15) and Anuja Devlekar (3 for 6) did the damage.

Brief scores: St Columba 90 for 5 in 25 overs (Chaitra 19 n.o.; Preeti Girinath 2-26, Shruti Chheda 2-31) bt Vasant Vihar 49 in 22 overs (Namrata Ghag 4-15, Anuja Devlekar 3-6).

Dani sets mark
Sunil Danti of Nagindas Khandawala Sports Club, Malad, set a new meet record in the boys under-20 long jump on the second day of the second Ryan International Sport Club State athletic meet being conducted at theUniversity Stadium, Marine Lines, on Friday.

Others to create new records were Maxson Furtado in the boys under-20 shot put, Sanoj Jiaswar in the boys under-18 shot put, Amol Kadam in boys under-18 long jump and a few others.

Navy down MS Police
Indian Navy defeated Maharashtra State Police 2-0 in the Bombay Hockey Association Super hockey league at the Mahindra Stadium, Churchgate, today.Ashok Kumar and MPJ Manova were the goal-getters.

Mumbai in semis
Mumbai defeated Rajasthan in the quarter-final of the Vijay Merchant Trophy cricket tournament at Trivandrum, according to a MCA release today.
Brief score: Mumbai 273 (S Dalvi 99, S Bagul 36, Abhishek Nair 33, Sanchit Pandey 35) and 254-5 (S Thakur 31, P Valthaty 81, S Bagul 53 n.o., H Rawle 53 n.o.) bt Rajashtan 85 (H Rawle 11-9-5-7, S Pandey 3-21) and 66-3 (S Pandey 2-24).

Manisha springs surprise
Manisha Nagaonkar stunned current State No. 2 and second seed Anupama Kedar 25-9, 10-25, 25-15 in the Bank ofBaroda-sponsored GSBS Sports Club carrom tournament, yesterday.
In another tie, Parimi Nirmala beat Monaz Tanttra 25-8, 25-6.

Mumbai, Vidarbha in final
Mumbai A and Vidarbha, the best teams on view, expectedly entered the final of the second `Saamana Trophy’ (U-14) State-level cricket tournament today.

Mumbai `A’, who had to be satisfied with the second spot in the first edition, got past their second string by seven wickets. They reached the target of 199 set by their juniors in the 42nd over with Kingal Patel being the major contributor with an unbeaten 76 off 98 balls.

There was yet another major contribution in the penultimate round from Aditya Jaynarayan of Vidarbha scoring an unbeaten 99 in his team’s total of 222 for 3 in 38.2 overs in reply to Thane’s moderate 221 for 8 in their stipulated quota.
Brief scores (semis): Mumbai B 199-6 (Ankit Chavan 31 n.o., Atish Golatkar 31 n.o.) lost to Mumbai A 200-3 in 41.3 overs (Prathamesh Kanaoje 59, Kinjal Patel 76 n.o.).
Thane221-8 (Harvinder Singh 54, Ajinkyaranane 63, Sagar Pawar 98, Viraj Chavan 40) lost to Vidarbha 222-3 in 38.2 overs (Avinash Wati 73, Aditya Jaynarayan 99 n.o.).
MOM: Mumbai B – Mumbai `A’ Kinjal Patel.
MOM: Thane – Vidarbha Aditya Jaynarayan.

Mastan, NNH in final
Mastan YMCA and NNH set up an all-Nagpada final in the youth boys section of the 3rd Fr Agnel Open basketball tournament at Fr Agnel Complex, Vashi, today. While Mastan YMCA beat School of Basketball 64-36, NNH accounted for the hosts 75-66.
Results
Boys U-16 (semis): Mastan YMCA 64 (Khan Farhan 19) bt SoB 36 (Chinmay Bhandarkar 18) HT 32-25; NNH 75 (Kashif Shaikh 36) bt Fr Agnel 66 (Bipin David 20) HT 41-29.
Boys U-18: Navi Mumbai YMCA 41 (Babulal 19) bt TTES, Chembur 33 (Mridul 8) HT 25-13.