Harinder strikes green and gold

The losing quarter-finalists, Chetan Thakker, Kishore Thakker, Rishi Khera and SP Bahl with closet to pin winners, Agenello Castellino (0-16) and Pratap Kamat (17 and above) all being awarded a gold coin each. The event drew a total of 110 participants.

Travasso nets hat-trickClinton Travasso scored a hat-trick to take Rogets Sports Club to a fine victory over Marol Village Boys in a Division III league match of the MDFA at the St Xavier’s Ground, Parel, today. Rogets won 3-1.

It was Marol which went into the lead early in the first-half through Tony Fernandes. But they could not hang-on to their lead for long with Travasso netting the equaliser before the breather. Travasso struck twice in the second-half to complete the tally.

Omkar impresses

Former Maharashtra (u-10) champion, Omkar Kulkarni continued to charm at the Thane District selection tournament being held at the United Sports Club, today. The ten-year-old Omkar, winner at the Lloyd’s Bank tournament in London recently, vanquished Santosh Raut in a long drawn battle. Fide rated Jyoti Lal also breezed through the third round. A keen battle between women players saw Anagha Damle taste defeat, losing to Priyanka Desai in a struggle that went to 38 moves.

The top eight players here will qualify for the Bombay Chess Association selection tournament next month. The leaders after the third round are: Jyoti Lal, Vijay Thik, Sagar Masurekar, Dinesh Barodia, Sagar Sadavarte, Omkar Kulkarni, Priyanka Desai, Parag Terwadkar and Atal Ahirwar.

Alwa excels

Manoj S Alwa of KMC Khopoli was adjudged the "Best Boxer" of the Inter-collegiate Boxing competition held at the University Sports Pavilion, today. Maharashtra College lifted the Sir Leslee Wilson Cup for best team. Results: Light Fly-weight: Siraj Khan (Maharashtra) bt Tushar Khope (KMC); Fly-weight: SK Mohd Shamin (Maharashtra) bt Amit Survase (Bhavans); Bantam-weight: Manoj Alwa (KMC) bt Rupesh Gaikwad (Ruparel); Feather-weight: Tushar Vaity (Sidh Law) bt Sanjay Singh (Lajpatrai); Light welter-weight: Saif Ansari (Maharashtra) bt Ravikant Kale (Sidh); Welter-weight: Nikhil Pradhan (ST Xavier’s) bt Jagdeep Kate (Kirti); Light middle-weight: Gabrielle Mutundu (St Xavier’s) bt Aftab Shaikh (Maharashtra); Middle-weight: Jobby Babu (Khalsa) bt Surti Fahad (Maharashtra); Light Heavy-weight: Ajaykumar Pande (CHM) bt Mahendra Singh (DAV); Heavy-weight: Baig Saleem (Maharashtra) bt H Mehta (Wilson)

Anjuman-I-Islam in semisAnjuman-I-Islam (Urdu) beat Cathedral and John Connon `A’ 39-29 in a boys under-16 quarter-final match of the Thums-Up Inter-Schools basketball tournament at the MSSA courts, today.

Imran Khan (13), Sayeed Wasim (10) and Mohd Raees (8) led the scoring for Anjuman. Vishal Mathur (12), S Gautam (8) and Aneesh Daga (5) fought back for the losers.

Results: Boys u-16 q/f: Don Bosco A, Matunga 63 (Dhananjay Shah 18, Rohan Kumar 14, Mihir Kothari 10, Leroy Pinto 8) bt The Scholar HS 10 (Haider Kantawala 6); St Stanislaus HS 31 (Roger Fernandes 15, Aaron Fernandes 4) bt St Dominic Savio 22 (Wenster D’Souza 8, Savio Fernandes 7); St Xavier’s Fort 56 (Hsing L 35, Shun L 13) bt Fr Agnel’s, Vashi 50 (Maulik V 17, Anup N 20, Saju C 9); Girls u-16 s/f: MAry Immaculate Girls, Borivli 34 (Aparna Sudhakar 22, Sonia Sequeira 6) bt Fatima HS, Vidyavihar 32 (Imbajothi 9, Pallavi 6, Vij Inderbir 6, Flavia D’Souza 6, Rachana Ved 5); St Paul’s , Dadar 62 (Pravina Thokal 24, Ashwini Kate 8) bt Cannosa, Andheri (Anjali Lobo 4)