Mahatma, CHM win university handball

Men’s league: Somaiya 23 (Nilesh Jadhav 7, Karan Patel 6, Sachin More 4, Suraj Nambisan, S John 2) bt CHM 20 (Sandesh Ghotpagar 8, Manmandir Singh 6, Sagar Kulkarni 3); Mahatma 33 (Sushant 9, Parikshit 10, Munnalal Yadav 5, Mahesh 5, Ajay Kulkarni 4) bt NM 11 (Chinmay 5, Gulraj 3, Darshan 2); CHM 23 (Lawrence 5, Sandesh 4, Manmandir 4, Sagar 4, Imtiaz 3, Darryl Pol 2) bt NM 14 (Rajdeep 3, Chinmay 5, Gulraj 4); Mahatma 30 (Sushant 9, Parikshit 5, Munnalal 5, Mahesh 3, Ajay 7) bt Somaiya 24 (Nilesh Jadhav 5, Sachin More 5, Suraj 5, John Singh 4, Amit More 2, Pratik2).

Women’s League: CHM 4 (Isha Phadnis 2, Josephine Ambrose 2) bt BPCA 1 (Sabrina Silveira).

Joshi Bedekar in semis

Defending champions Joshi Bedekar romped into the men’s semi-final of the Inter-collegiate badminton team championship at University Pavilion today, blanking RD National 3-0.

Results (Quarters)

Men Team C’ships: Podar bt Karjat Engg 3-0 (Behzad Devadhwala bt G Prasoon 15-2 15-4; Rohan Radhakrishnan bt S Athavale 15-3 15-2; Rahul Parab & Abhimanyu bt A Rathor & Prasoon 15-7 15-2); KC Law bt Jai Hind 3-0 (Kunal Vaswani bt Neville Master 15-3 15-7; Raj Panchmaria bt Samit Malkani 15-8 15-1; Panchmaria & Vaswani bt Malkani & Ashish 15-7 15-11); Joshi Bedekar bt RD National 3-0 (Bhushan Paithankar bt J Azeem 15-3 15-2; Himanshu Thakkar bt Z Ranjit 15-8 15-2; Paithankar & Thakkar bt Ranjit & Azeem 15-6 15-4); Sydenham bt Tolani 3-0 (Deepak Jaitly bt Akhil Rawat 15-3 15-6; Harshad Tawde bt N Sohande 15-4 15-2; Jaitly & Tawde bt Sohande & Chowdhary 15-2 15-1).

WomenTeam C’ships: HR bt Hinduja 2-0 (Neha Gangolli bt Nisha Rani 11-0 11-0; Pooja Kotwani bt Colleen Sylvester 11-3 11-3); SIES Arts & Science bt Sydenham 2-0 (Aruna Jayaraman bt Radha Desai 11-4 11-0; Aruna & Kiran Motwani bt Radha & Avanti Gade 8-15 15-3 15-6); Podar bt Bhavan’s 2-0 (Gauri Narayan bt Prajakta Mhatre 11-8 11-1; Gauri & Uma Madhavan bt Prajakta & Anuj Wadke 15-7 15-5); Xavier’s bt AD Kale 2-1 (S Natasha lost S Katta 11-9 7-11 2-11; Monica Hoonah & PN Swathi bt S Katta & Pragya Harsh 15-3 13-15 15-5; H Monica bt H Pragya 11-2 11-1).

Haldibari lead

Calcutta team Haldibari snatched the early initiative as 15 teams matched wits in the Tolani National Masters Bridge Championships at Ashok Ruia Centre today. The team from Calcutta tallied 106 VPs out of 125 after five rounds of round robin.

TOP FIVE POSITIONS

Haldibari 106, Samant, K Mishra 92, Trambak Rubber 91, IK Rao 90.

Sutarwar pip CRPW

Sutarwar (Sahar) defeated Central Railway (Parel Workshop) 1-0 in theMumbai District Football Association’s eight-team super league play-off at the St Xavier’s Ground, Parel. Manohar scored the solitary goal.

OTHER RESULTS

Division I-B: Borovlian 1 (Sheldon Fernandes) bt BEST 0; Division III-C: Vikhroli Young Boys 2 bt Podar 1.