NNH has Hoopers hopping

In the mini girls’ section, last year’s runners-up Indian Gymkhana overcame a stiff challenge from Agradneya VS B’ 16-12 to enter the semi-finals.

RESULTS:

Men’s: NNH 75 (Shaikh Matin 24, Shaikh Rashid 18) bt Hoopers 59 (P Ramaswamy 23, Dipesh Muni 15, Chirag Muni 13). Half-time: 41-25. Indian Gymkhana 85 (Manish T 16, Nikhil Pai 12, Sachin V 12, Mahesh 10, Rohan 10) bt Chembur Trombay Ed. Soc. (Ashok P 6). Half-time 30-3.

Mini girls: Agradneya VS A’ 23 (Shruti P 11, Poorvi K 10) bt Fr Agnel’s 9 (Bhavna 9). HT: 10-9. Andheri YMCA 15 bt St Anthony’s HS 8 (Sonia S 8). HT: 6-2.

Mini boys: Fatima 50 (Kalpesh 14, Abhijeet 8) bt Fr Agnel’s 4 HT: 22-2; Indian Gymkhana 16 (Ketki K 10) bt Agradneya VS 12 (Nandini B 10). HT: 10-5; Indian Gymkhana 55 (Venkatesh Chari 12, Akshay G 10, Rohan W 10) bt Fr Agnel 18 (Harshad 12).HT: 25-14.

Rizvi top

Rizvi college Bandra has won the Inter-collegiate boxing championship held of the University Pavillion from November 21-25.

Naveen Poojari of Rizvi, who boxed in the fly-weight category, won his last three bouts with first round knock-outs.

In the final, he beat A Surendra of Siddharth Commerce in a unanimous point decision. In the first two rounds, Poojari lead on points while his right hook floored Surendra twice in the final round.

Ziauddin Khatib of Rizvi in the light-weight category had stiff opposition in the semi-final from Atul Jadhav of Siddharth College, but Zia showed good technique to beat Jadhav to reach the final where he defeated J Omprakash of Lala Lajpatrai on a unanimous point decision.

Alderin Philip, also of Rizvi College, won his final by a knock-out win over Sawant Amit of Aggarwal College in the first round of the super heavy-weight category.

Rizvi college has won the boxing championships for the first time with a maximum of 26 points, Kirti college was second with 18 points and last years champion Maharashtra College was placed third with 13 points.