Eskimoes advance

MUMBAI, May 4: Vasai Eskimos stroked out Royal Sports Club 5-3 via tie-breaker to cross the first hurdle in the Bhiwandiwala Cup hockey tou...

MUMBAI, May 4: Vasai Eskimos stroked out Royal Sports Club 5-3 via tie-breaker to cross the first hurdle in the Bhiwandiwala Cup hockey tournament at the Niagaum Police ground, today.

Both teams were locked 1-1 at full-time.

Irfan put the Eskimoes ahead but Timmy Aguiar equalised. Scorers for Vasai Eskimoes in the tie-breaker were: Mohan Bhaskar, Ifran, Samson Pinto and Thomas Anthony. Neville Jadhav and Navin Bhengre were the only successes for Royal.

Earlier in another first round match, Ashlin Furtado’s strike enabled Rebel Sports Club beat HOC 1-0.

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RCF `B’ failed to turn up for their match against Sachivalaya Gymkhana. ANIRUDH, TEJASWI SUPREME: D Anirudh (Khar Gymhana) and Tejaswi Shetty claimed the men’s and women’s group titles at the Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana (JVPG) swimming championships.

A spate of records were broken during the two-day championships which concluded today.

Group-wise champions’ and runners-up list: Men’s: 1. Anirudh Bisht, 2. Nitin Jaithanandani (JVPG).

Boys: u-15: 1. Sidhant Nagrani (Otters); Amol B (Khar Gym); U-13: 1. Jay Shah (JVPG)-Riyad Palia (Otters) — jt champions; 2. Varun Divgikar; U-11: Parikshit Shetty (Otters)-Rehan Poncha (jt champions), 2. Rahil Parikh (JVPG); U-9: Roshan Nichani (JVPG), 2. Sandeep Doshi (Otters); U-7: Sushant Divgikar (Khar Gym); 2. Sriram Murali.

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Women: 1. Tejaswi Shetty (JVPG), 2. Sindoor Thakkar (Otters). Girls: U-15: Sindoor Thakkar (Otters), 2. Radhika Lakhani; U-13: Tejaswi Shetty (JVPG), 2. Rashi Oberoi (Otters); U-11: Anshuka Parvani (Khar Gym); 2. Vishakha Naik; U-9: Karishma Menon (Otters); Deepti Venkatesh (Otters); U-7: Shazneen Daruwala (YMCA), 2. Nimisha Gupta (BPCL).

CYS pip I-T: Colaba Young Stars beat Income-Tax 1-0 in a first-round match of the Mohd Hussain Memorial football tournament at the Cooperage, today.

Bhupinder Singh scored the all-important goal.

MAKWAN MATCHWINNER: Paresh Makwan scored the only goal of the match to bring St Anthony of Royal a 1-0 win over Seveb-B-Star in the Guru Nanak football Trophy organised by the MDFA at St Xavier’s Ground, Parel, today.