
Mumbai, Feb 11: Led by veteran C Honnappa, favourites Bank Sports Board pocketed the title in the South Kanara All-India Kabaddi Tournament on Friday. BSB defeated Delhi 20-10, after leading 7-5 at half-time. In the women’s section, Mumbai Shahar scored a stunning 23-21 victory over Mumbai Upanagar, despite the latter enjoying a four-point advantage with five minutes on the clock. But Tejashri Naik turned the tables by getting three rivals in a single raid to level scores at 15-15.
Results (semis)
Men: Delhi bt Haryana 19-18; BSB bt Services 37-15. Women: Mumbai Shahar bt Nashik 46-41; Mumbai Upanagar bt Pune 29-17.
Advani stuns Dutta
Unseeded Nihal Advani upset Rewant Dutta 6-4, 6-0 in the under-16 semi-finals on Friday after having defeated top seed Rishi Behl on Thursday. He now faces Saurabh Kohli in the Khar Gymkhana KP Bathija Open Juniors tennis final.
Results
Boys under-18 (QF): Gavryl Fernandes bt Saurabh Kohli 6-2 6-1, Aditya Madekar bt K Asaldekar 6-0 6-1,Kunal Bhojwani bt Nihal Adwani 6-7 (2-7) 6-0 6-0, Rishi Behl bt Ajay Vaswani 5-4 conceded. Under-16 (semis): Nihal Advani bt Rewant Dutta 6-4 6-0, Saurabh Kohli bt Gautam Samarth 6-2 3-6 7-5.
Under-14 (semis): Keshavan Narasimhan bt Karan Mordani 6-2 6-4, Akshay Chellappa bt Gautam Samarth 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-0. Under-12 (semis): Arnav Jain bt Janmali Manikala 4-6 6-2 6-1, Agnel Gladwin bt K Mahale 3-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-4.
Girls’ under-16 (semis): Medini Sharma bt Krushmi Chedda 7-6 (7-3) 7-5, Isha Lakhani bt Anuja Parikh 6-2 6-0. Under-16 (QF): Megha Vakharia bt Soumya Kowtha 7-5 6-1, Krushmi Chedda bt Anuja Parekh 5-7 6-3 6-0, Medini Sharma bt Shradha Lodha 6-3 6-3, Isha Lakhani bt Kartiki Bhat 6-0 7-5. Under-14 (QF): Kartiki Bhat bt Sagarika Phadke 6-0 6-0, Niddhi Shah bt Tulsi Mehta 6-4 6-2, Shradha Lodha bt Nalini Mallya 6-3 7-6 (7-5), Lizenka Pereira bt T Sinha 6-2 7-5. Under-12 (semis): Nalini Mallya bt Moneeza Siddique 9-2, Nina Sharma bt Sampada Kanade9-1.
Indian Gym drub CFC
Indian Gymkhana drubbed CFC 7-1 in the Wifa football league second division at the Cooperage on Friday.
Results (Div II): Indian Gym 7 (KP Pradeep 4, Jude Patel 2, Ravi Kotian) bt CFC 1 (Kamlesh Waghela); Goregaon SC 1 (Kevin Rodrigues) bt Milan SC 0; (Div III): Sainath SC 2 (S Sachin, P Bala) bt Allies SC 0.
Pagnis slams ton
A superb century by opener Amit Pagnis and his 154-run third wicket partnership with Milind Tamhane enabled Sun-Grace Mafatlal to score 344-8 against Air-India on the first day of the two-day final of the KC Mahindra Invitation cricket tournament at MIG Ground, Bandra, on Friday.
Brief scores: Sun-Grace Mafatlal SC 344-8 in 87 overs (Praful Dhule 40, Amit Pagnis 143, Milind Tamhane 65; Preetam Gandhe 5-103) vs Air-India.
BPCL in semis
A century by Sandesh Manjrekar (103) helped BPCL beat Indian Airlines by six runs to enter the semi-finals of the Indian Airlines Cricket Tournament on Friday.
Results(QF): BPCL 241-7 bt Indian Airlines 235-9. IDBI 137 bt Centaur Hotel 94. JNPT 238 bt BEST 172. L&T 248-7 bt GIC 164.
Prajakta wins gold
Prajakta Mishal (Goa) won the gold in the fin-weight category of the National taekwondo championship, organised by the Taekwondo Association of Maharashtra, Thane, on Friday.




