Customs, Navy to contest final

Mumbai, April 10: Mumbai Customs and Indian Navy will contest the final of the St Peter Youth Centre hockey tournament. In the semi-final...

Mumbai, April 10: Mumbai Customs and Indian Navy will contest the final of the St Peter Youth Centre hockey tournament. In the semi-finals today, at St Stanislaus School, Navy rallied from a two-goal deficit to upset Tatas 3-2, while Customs had a surprisingly easy, if uninspiring, 2-0 win over Rizvi.

Robin Singh’s brace put Tatas 2-0 up, but James Burh and R Singh helped the Navy veterans draw level. With both teams tiring, and Navy appearing content to force extra time, Tatas slackened. A defensive lapse and a quick free hit conversion saw R Bara get past a mesmerised AP Girish.

In the second semi-final, the Rizvi offence had little to offer, save for Asad Khan’s attempted equaliser, nicely taken care of by custodian Anson Thomas. Rahul Singh scored both Customs goals, off strokes. They could have doubled the margin, had Suresh Pereira moved right, instead of swerving left, on an advancing Rizvi custodian. Rahul also had a flashy run, but his flying finish resulted only in a few broken windows in theneighbouring building.

Forbes enter final

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Forbes Group defeated Tata Chemicals by six wickets in the Tata Inter-Companies A Division cricket league today. Forbes will now meet Tata SSL in the final.

Brief Scores

Tata Chemicals 228-8 in 45 overs (SN Mehta 66, Umakant Prabhu 52, Ramesh Pabori 30) lost to Forbes Group 229-4 in 33 overs (Pankaj Patil 57, Kiran Pawar 78 n.o., Nishit Shetty 47 n.o.).

Bombay Gym supreme

Bombay Gymkhana beat Navi Mumbai Sports Association 6-1 and wrapped up the Masters title of the 26th Motilal Sanghi Inter-Club squash tournament today.

Results

Bombay Gymkhana bt Navi Mumbai 6-1. 20 to 30: Niraj Shirgaokar bt Gulshan Singh 9-4 9-3 9-3. 30 to 40: Mohan Malik bt Leon Emmanuel 9-3 9-0 9-3. 40 to 50: Vaman Apte bt Inder Pal Singh 3-0. 50 to 60: Harry Melwani bt Ravi Puri 9-2 9-3. Over 60: Khalid Ansari lost to S Suri 8-10 4-9. Professionals: Gopi Mohite w.o. Rajesh Sonavane.

Jadhav shines

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Strongman Vijay Jadhav, withhis incisive raids, guided Bank of India to a convincing 42-28 win over Bharat Petroleum in the quarter-finals of the Radheyshyam Gupta State-level kabaddi tournament, organised by Goregaon Sports Club, today.

Other Results

Men (Q-F): Mahindras bt State Bank of India 24-10; RCF bt Central Bank of India 29-14; Pune Police bt Union Bank of India 23-19.

Women (S-F): Sneh Vikas bt Dr Shirodkar 58-55; Chembur Kreeda Kendra bt Samata 15-14.