Formidables follow leaders ARAL after four rounds

MUMBAI, OCT 25: Local team ARAL were in the lead as the quarter-final of the Tolani National Masters bridge championship wound past the h...

MUMBAI, OCT 25: Local team ARAL were in the lead as the quarter-final of the Tolani National Masters bridge championship wound past the half-way stage at Ashok Ruia Centre, Andheri Complex today.

ARAL, who have in their ranks Maharashtra transport commissioner Vinay Mohan Lal, have a tally of 207.5 victory points (VPs) after four rounds, 133.5 of which came from the 50 per cent carry-over of the 267 they earned while topping the qualifying stage.

Delhi’s Formidables, led by Kiran Nadar, were at second place with 191.5 VPs. followed by Sunil Machhar’s (190.5 VPs), which improved their position to third after finishing sixth in the league state.

Results (after four rounds)

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1 207.5: ARAL (Bimal Sicka, VM Lal, Raju Bhiwandkar, Ratanlal Kejriwal, Prakash Kejriwal); 2 191.5: Formidables (Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayan, Rajeshwar Tiwari, Subhash Gupta, NK Gupta); 3 190.5: Sunil Machhar (Vinay Desai, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare, R Sridharan); 4 185: India Blues (Ashok Ruia, JM Shah, S Venkatraman, JituSolani, Kamal Mukherjee); 5 183.5 Trambak Rubber (Kamal Roy, Subroto Saha, Chandrasekhar Majumdar, Samir Basak, SP Ghosh); 6 181: Haldibari (Sudhir Ganguly, Subir Majumdar, Dipak Majumdar, Alok Sadhu, Rana Roy); 7 171: Dr Tolani (Deepak Pradhan, Arvind Vaidya, G Biswas, RA Agarwal, Arun Bapat, Dr Mukund Jagannath); 8 160.5: K Misra (Kalpana Misra, Anil Padhye, Anal Shah, KV Krishnamurthy, SK Iyengar).

Railway Institute pip Paul’s

Bombay Central Western Railway Institute defeated St Paul’s (Dadar) via tie-breaker 7-6 in a Mumbai District Football Association’s Division III play-off semi-final at St Xavier’s Ground, Parel today.

Scorers for the Institute were Ashutosh Saxena, Ayyas Hussain, Wilfred Pereira, Ayyas (Junior), Muralidharan, Shammi K and Jose Daya while Rudolf D’Cunha, Shelton Coutinho, Bosco Fernandes, Francis Lobo, Dolrich Alvares and Bosco D’Souza netted for St Paul’s.

CR win

Central Railway defeated Larsen and Toubro 4-1 in the St Xavier’s Sport Club’s footballtournament for over-40 at Vile Parle on Saturday.

Khalsa qualify

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Khalsa College won the under-19 boys and girls multi games hockey tournament at Khalsa College and qualified for the state-level meet to be held at Akola from October 28.

Khalsa boys beat Rizvi College 3-2 via tie-breaker with Rambahadur, Harpreet Singh, Kalira, Deepak Manuel scoring for Khalsa and Lukram Suresh, Kumar Satish finding the mark for Rizvi.

Other Results

Under-19 girls final: Khalsa w/o Apostolic Convent.

Under-14 boys: St Anne’s (Malad) 2 (Reuben D’Souza, Dylan S) bt Don Bosco (Matunga) 1 (Nilesh Negi).

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