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February 18: Maya Patil of Mumbai Range grabbed a gold and a silver medal in the athletics event of the 14th Maharashtra State Police Games at Priyadarshini Park today.
Patil8217;s gold in the 100 metres hurdles 8212; she took silver behind Pune8217;s Gosavi in the long jump 8212; took Mumbai City8217;s gold medal tally to four on the second day of the competition when the men8217;s football and hockey teams scored identical 9-0 victories.
The football team ran slipshod over Railway Range with four goals and hat-tricks from both Pramod Sail and Rajesh Tondwalkar after Uday Gade had opened proceedings for his team at the St Xavier8217;s Ground, Parel.
The hockey team, with three goals from Ganesh Patoli, two from Mahendra Jadhav and one each from D Jadhav, Wajid Shaikh, Tushar Kanole and Devidas Satpal, trounced Nashik Range to set up a meeting with Amravati City in the next round.
Results
Athletics: Men8217;s shot put: AM Kamathe Thane Range 12.08m, PY Bothalkar Thane Range, Sampat Bhosale Kolhapur Range; Javelin Throw: RN Mishra Mumbai 57.89, Devendra Singh Mumbai, PP Patil Thane Range; Long Jump: UR Badkar SRPF Pune 6.22m, K Tripathi Mumbai, PP Patil Thane Range.
Women: 100m hurdles: Maya Patil Mumbai City 18.8s, RR Ganahatti Thane Range, Sampurna Kadam Mumbai City;
Long Jump: Gosavi Pune City 4.85m, Maya Patil Mumbai City, MA Chougule Thane Range;
Discus Throw: Burken Railways 29.9, Pradosini Pingle Thane City, Vimal Bidraje Nanded Range.
Football: Mumbai City 9 Pramod Sail 4, Rajesh Tondwalkar 4, Uday Gade bt Railway Range 0; Nanded Range 10 Tehzib Khan, Amar Chav. Tie-breaker: Afsar Pathan, Khaja Ansari, Feroz Modh, Prabhudas, Motilal Yadav, Rajeshwar, Tehzib Khan bt Amravati City 9 Rajesh Bahenkar, Firoz Khan, Peonoy Wagaihare. Tie-breaker: Pratap Singh, Sandeep Mistry, Gajanan Surose, Peonoy Waghmare, Mohendra Shinde, Firoz Khan via tie-breaker full time 3-3; SRPF Pune 13 BM Adhikari 4, SJ Shaikh 2, SY Kanane 2, XB Bernard, Santosh Nevade, AG Kalyankar, BK Nair bt Aurangabad Range 0.
Hockey: Nagpur Range 8 Arif 4, Tomar, Akhilesh Aesur, Shemdray, Vinay bt Thane Range 1 Javed Pathan; Mumbai City 9 Ganesh Patoli 3, Mahendra Jadhav 2, D Jadhav, Wajid Shaikh, Tushar Kanole, Devidas Satpal bt Nashik Range 0; Amravati City 2 SK Azinath 2 bt Aurangabad City 1 Niwathi Yekhade.
Among matches played late on Wednesday evening:
Basketball: Nanded Range 23 bt Amravati City 16; Mumbai City 52 bt Railway Range 7; SRPF Pune 48 bt AMravati Range 22.
Kabaddi: Aurangabad Range 41 bt Amravati Range 15; Kolhapur Range 39 bt SRPF Nagpur 8; Thane Range 61 bt Nagpur City 42; Railway Range 31 bt Nashik Range 21.
Volleyball: Pune City bt Thane Range 2-1, Aurangabad bt SRPF Nagpur 2-1, Nanded Range bt Thane City 2-1.
