MUMBAI, April 4: It was a rather special day for golfer Kishore Musale at the 80th Western India Addicts Golf tournament at the links United Services Club, Colaba today. Special, not only because he was the day's highest scorer, he also happens to be the Managing Director of Classic Stripes the sponsors of the two-day event.Playing with a handicap of 18, Musale finished the first nine with a score of 19. He had a better back nine and finished with a total of 40 points firing one nett eagle and five nett birdies.It is essentially a team of four stableford tournament on full handicap over 18 holes. The three best scores of a team being used to determine the winners. The prospects of Musale's efforts bearing fruit depends on his team-mates who will tee-off tomorrow.The next best score of 38 were turned in by SN Trivedi and Wg Cdr KV Bhavnani. Trivedi, also playing with a handicap of 18, picked up 20 points over the first nine. He fired one nett eagle and five nett birdies.Bhavnani, handicap 26, had abetter back nine with 20 points. He shot five nett birdies for his 38. A record number of 320 golfers have participated in this year's event.Rumania in quartersTwo second-half strikes by Rumania sealed Zico Pele's hopes of a quarter-final berth with a 2-0 win in the pre-quarter-finals of the 18th Brother Paulus Soccer Tournament played at the St Francis D'Assisi Ground, Borivli.Rumania took the lead in the 35th minute when Trevor Rodrigues converted a 30-yard shot. Aldrin Lobo increased the margin with a 47th minute strike off a pass by Gaston D'Costa.In the other pre-quarter final encounter Holiday Inn earned their place amongst the final four with a 2-0 win over fellow hotelier, Oberoi Towers. Anis Kanchan got the winners an early breakthrough (6th minute), netting off a header. John L completed the rout in the 41st minute, striking from a pass by Kanchan.Gandhe-Miranda topsPradeep Gandhe and Hubert Miranda defeated Shiresh Nadkarni and Sanjiv Patki 15-6, 18-16 in theveterans doubles +45 years final of the G D Birla Memorial badminton tournament, sponsored by Bhiwani Textiles, at the Bombay Gymkhana today.Other results:Veterans doubles +50 (final): Anil Pradhan & Gopal Moorjani bt Vikram Bhat & Sunder Shetty 15-9, 15-7. Semi-finals: Anil Pradhan & Gopal Moorjani bt Ashok Rao & Kanwarjit Singh 15-10, 12-15, 15-2; Vikram Bhat & Sunder Shetty bt Harish Gandhi & Kewal Aggarwal 15-11, 15-3.Veterans men doubles +45 (semis): Pradeep Gandhe & Hubert Miranda w.o. Iqbal Maindargi & Gopal Moorjani; Sanjiv Patki & S Nadkarni bt Sarosh Shroff & Vispy Modi 16-18, 15-10, 15-3.Veterans Inter-Club (final): CCI bt North Indian Association 2-0 - +45 years (Vispy Modi & K K Cheema bt Pradeep Gandhe & Yeshwant Tawade 15-11, 18-16). +50 years: Vispy Modi & Kabir Hiranandani bt Manohar Godse & Ravi Sarmalkar 15-8, 15-6.Mixed doubles (semi-finals): Sarosh Shroff & Ami Shah bt Shirish Nadkarni & Mrunal Deshmukh 15-3, 15-9; Sanjiv Patki & PadminiDesai bt Hubert Miranda & Hufrish Nariman 8-15, 15-13, 15-1.Karnatak concede finalKarnatak Sporting Association conceded the final to National Cricket Club after the latter scored 309 for 7 wickets, in reply to Karnatak's 169, on the second day of the three-day final of the Young Comrade Shield cricket tournament at the MIG ground, Bandra today.The hero of the second day's play was National's Rajesh Sutar, who scored an unbeaten 81.Brief scoresKarnatak 169 (N Patwardhan 26, Nishit Shetty 22; Manish Patel 5-61) lost to National C C (S Apte 26, Sunil More 42, Atul Ranade 65, Rajesh Sutar 81 n.o., S Mahadkar 26 n.o.; Anand Yelvegi 4-108).NMIMS winsNMIMS scored a 3-0 win over Vite in the Samba 98 inter-management institute league football tournament played at the St Xavier ground Parel, today.Sahilesh Kotiyan, Percy Domiasya and Kaushik Chattaraj scored for the winners.In the other match, MET drew 1-1 with Chetna College. Samir Prabhu scored for METwhile Kshitij Desai scored for Chetna.
