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Mumbai, December 30: Rahul Dandekar (handicap 21) won the Bombay Presidency Golf Club X’Mas stableford golf title at the par-70 BPGC course.
Stringing together eight pars, which included one on the difficult par-4 14th that netted him four points (nett-eagle), Dandekar aggregated a high of 46 (25 points over the front nine) points in the 18-hole tournament.
Baldev R Kapoor (handicap 18) finished as the runner-up with 43 points (20 over the front-nine) collecting four points on the par-3 tenth where he shot a birdie. Both Dandekar and Kapoor carded 81 gross.
Raja Raman and Rajan Kacker won the Andy Sharma Cup. Deepak Kanwar and Karan Kanwar finished second.
Yashodhan Gogte top
Yashodhan Gogte of Bombay Scottish, with 9.5 points out of 11 rounds, won the boys under-12 title in the Parle-G chess festival, organised by the Bandra Chess Club, at the St Stanislaus High School premises.
Sachin Kamat of Fr Agnel (Vashi), with nine points, and Ninad Puranik, with 8.5 points, finished second and third, respectively.
Vasant Vihar champs
Vasant Vihar High School beat People’s Education High School by two wickets in the final of the fourth Ghantali Cup Thane City under-14 Inter-School cricket tournament at the Central Maidan.
Brief scores: Final: People’s Education 178-9 in 45 overs (Kartik Iyer 48; Dhruv Chaturvedi 3-48) lost to Vasant Vihar 179-8 in 33 overs (Srikant Ramkrishnan 36, Shoeb Shaikh 75 n.o.; Kartik Iyer 4-72) by two wickets.
Semi-finals: People’s Education 136 in 45 overs (Prathamesh Sawant 59) bt MH High School 85 in 25 overs (Kartik Iyer 6-22) by 51 runs; SVPT’s Saraswati Vidyalaya 171 in 43.5 overs (Viraj Nadigar 31 n.o., Dhruv Chaturvedi 4-48) lost to Vasant Vihar 172-2 in 21 overs (Shoeb Shaikh 53 n.o. Shailesh Shetty 45 n.o.) by eight wickets.
Payyade CC supreme
Payyade Cricket Club, Kandivli, beat Bhatnagar Sports and Cultural Foundation, Andheri, by five wickets in the final of the 44th Balkrishna Bapat Shield Suburban cricket tournament, conducted by the Kurla Sports Club, at the Maj. Dadkar Maidan, Matunga.
Brief scores: Final: Bhatnagar 198 in 40.4 overs (Amol Rane 80, Amogh Bhatawdekar 42; Jayesh Dadarkar 6-52) lost to Payyade 200-5 in 35.2 overs (Prashant Manjrekar 58, Ajay Kadam 46 n.o., Jayesh Dadarkar 34 n.o.; Manish Sakhalkar 3-40) by five wickets.
Individual prize winners: Best batsman: Amol Rane (Bhatnagar). Best bowler: Jayesh Dadarkar (Payyade). Best fielder: Pramod Masurkar (Payyade).
Thane Friends score
Thane Friends Union beat Cadbury Sports Club by two wickets in the first-round of the 13th Ayub Memon Thane District cricket tournament, conducted by the Bhiwandi Taluka Cricket Association, at the Parshuram Tawre Stadium, Bhiwandi.
Brief scores: Cadbury 153 in 36 overs (Amol Patil 32; Sandip Dalvi 3-23) lost to Thane Friends Union 156-8 in 36.5 overs (Saurabh Gaikwad 35 n.o., Bhushan Sawant 34; Prathmesh Patil 4-39, Anil Sakpal 3-26).
Club 55 tennis
The Matunga Gymkhana-sponsored Club 55 tennis tournament, in memory of the late Shah Bhogilal Trophy, will commence on January 2 at 7.30 a.m. at the Matunga Gymkhana.
