State girls qualify in styleSHILLONG: Maharashtra stormed into the quarter-final league phase of the Seventh Women's Senior National Football Championship with an epmhatic 12-0 victory over Uttar Pradesh in their last group match at the Polo ground here on Wednesday. Assam and Orissa too qualified registering 5-0 and 3-0 victories over MP and TN respectively on a day which witnessed 30 goals.The other quarter-finalists include defending champions Manipur, last year's finalist Bengal, Goa, Kerala and Bihar.Maria Rebello was the toast for Maharashtra netting four goals including a hat-trick. Skipper Queenie Mendis and Grace Pereira too joined the goal feast slamming three each while Gazala Khan and Arati Ahirau scored one goal apiece respectively.In the other matches of the day Tripura and Chandigarh dished out a goalless draw while Haryana drubbed AP 7-0 and Punjab downed Karnataka 2-1. The first round of quarter final league matches has been drawn between Bengal and Bihar, Manipurand Orissa, Assam and Goa and Kerala and Maharashtra scheduled to be held on May 14.Wild card for Benjamin XavierNEW DELHI: Mumbai's Benjamin Xavier alongwith Manoj Mahadevan, Avinash Arun and Akshay Vishal Rao were awarded wild cards for the first leg of ITF Men's Satellite Tennis tournament starting in Bangalore on May 17.India's Prahlad Srinath has been top seeded while twelve Indians and eight foreign players have been given direct entry into the 32-player main draw. Mumbai will host the second leg from May 24 to 29 and Delhi is the venue for both - third leg (May 31 to June 5) and the Masters (June 7 to 12).Mahindras in Mammen finalKOTTAYAM: Mahindra and Mahindra (Mumbai) defeated Air-India ( Mumbai), 3-1, to enter the final of the Mammen Mappillai Trophy All-India Football Tournament being held here. They will take on reigning champions SBT in the final on Thursday. PJ Jose put A-I in the lead but with the equaliser coming from Abbas Rizvi, while Majith Singhput Mahindras ahead. Satish Minz made it 3-1 in their favour.Manish Joshi shocks Andrew WebsterSANGLI: Third-seeded IM Andrew Webster of England suffered a setback at the hands of little known Manish Joshi of Western Railways in the third round of the 32nd SK Vaidya Memorial Fide rated Chess Tournament here on Wednesday. Eleven players - IM P Konguvel, IM DV Prasad, CS Gokhale, Vishal Sareen, Sriram Jha, Suvrajit Saha, Tejas Bakre, RK Mishra, S Satyapragyan and Manish - lead with three points apiece.Chowhan, Nanavati on IOA panelNEW DELHI: Mool Chand Chowhan, secretary of the Table Tennis Federation of India and V D Nanavati, general secretary of the Swimming Federation of India, were nominated as associate vice-presidents of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Wednesday.Weightlifting Nationals from June 15BANGALORE: The 51st men and 14th women Senior National Weightlifting Championships will be held here from June 15 to 20. The championships wasoriginally scheduled to be held at Asansol.- ENS & Agencies
