Good Counsel, Mastan prevail

MUMBAI, May 14: A total of 11 points by top scorer Franco D'Mello helped Good Counsel beat Ghatkopar YMCA 25-22 after trailing 12-14 at h...

MUMBAI, May 14: A total of 11 points by top scorer Franco D’Mello helped Good Counsel beat Ghatkopar YMCA 25-22 after trailing 12-14 at half-time in the Colgate sponsored 1st Savio Open State-level Basketball Tournament at Don Bosco School, Matunga today. In another tie, Mastan YMCA B thrashed Fatima Sports Club 21-8 after leading 14-4 at half-time.

Qualifiers

Pool A: Wellington YMCA A, Good Counsel; Pool B: NNH A, AVM; Pool C: Mastan YMCA A, NNH B or Savio; Pool D: Indian Gymkhana, Wellington YMCA B or Chembur YMCA

Results (League)

Good Counsel 25 (Franco D’Mello 11, Tyrell Valladares 4, Peter Kotikalapudi 4) bt Ghatkopar YMCA 22 (Panchlal Pal 4, Rajaram Gupta 6); Mastan YMCA B 21 (Mohd Azina 6, Mohd Rizwan 4, Ansari Faraz 4) bt Fatima SC 8 (Saji J 2); Mastan YMCA B 21 (Shaikh Fasal 16, Shaikh Obed 10, Mohd Rais 10) bt Hoopers 6 (Ankit Arora 2, Amit Kothari 2, Vikram Gupta 2); Indian Gymkhana 83 (Badrinarayan S 16, Abhishek Parulekar 12, Ramkumar K 12) bt MastanYMCA C 9 (Shaikh Shahzad 3, Shaikh Anas 4); Mastan YMCA A 45 (Shaikh Faisal 14, Shaikh Obed 7, Adnan Khan 7) bt NNH B 1 (Shaikh Sohail); Agradneya Vyayamshala A 47 (Devashree Patwardhan 20, Sadhna 10, Shabda Chaudhary 6) bt St Pauls 10 (Evellyal Goes 6).

Shah makes final

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YOUNG Ritesh Shah (hndicap 35) rallied from a two frame defecit to register a 3-2 win over V Gehani in the semi-final of the Selvel sponsored Open Handicap Snooker Tournament for the SR Ruia Challenge Cup at Matharpacady Club today.

He sets up a title clash with V Jaisingh who prevailed over J Thomas in a taught five-frame encounter. Shah’s march into the final included breaks of 55, 20 (third frame) and 35 in the fourth frame.

Results (SF)

Ritesh Shah (35) bt V Gehani (50) 3-2 (84-104, 85-96, 122-50, 110-87, 100-54); V Jaisingh (55) bt J Thomas (50) 3-2 (116-113, 78-110, 109-88, 74-103, 105-78).

Gladwin scores

Agnel Gladwin ousted fifth seed Arnav Jain to make the under-12 final of the Maharashtra StateJunior Ranking Tennis Tournament at the Bhushan Tennis Academy courts today.

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Both players showed amazing stamina with their long rallies and baseline strokes. But in the end, Gladwin, with lesser mistakes won 6-3, 6-4. Gladwin later went on to win the under-10 final.

Results

Boys U-18 (SF): 3-Arpan Lakhani bt 1-Gaurav Kumar 6-2, 6-2; 4-Jay Arora bt Pratik Sharma 6-2, 6-4 U-14 (SF): Sanjay Salian bt Akshay C 6-3, 3-0 conceded. U-12 (SF): 2-Hrishikesh Pataskar bt 8- Janmali Manikala 6-1, 6-2; Agnel Gladwin bt 5-Arnav Jain 6-3, 6-4 U-10 (final): Agnel Gladwin bt Jay Raj Desai 6-1, 6-2.

Girls U-12 (SF): Nalini Mallaya bt Kanisha Mehta 9-5; Sagarika Padke bt Divya Gopal 9-1 U-10 (SF): 1-Roshini Luthra bt Prachi Nadkarni 9-2; Ayushi Sinha bt Sanchi Ganerwal 9-5.