Powar, Sarang pave way for Victory’s semis entry

BRIEF SCORES

Bombay Gymkhana 97 (Amit Dani 4-45, Musavir Khote 3-24, Rajesh Pawar 3-23) and 61-4 lost to National 534-8 declared (Vijay Singh 52, Nilesh Gawas 62, Amit Dani 165, Wasim Jaffer 46, Shekhar Bhor not out 54; Rahul Bhimani 3-72, Quasa Padamsee 3-87) on first innings lead. Victory 258 (Ramesh Powar 89, Ajay Kadam 55; Vishal Tawde 4-73) and 149-5 (Hemant Kinikar not out 43, Maroof Khan 43; Tushar Jhaveri 3-37) bt P J Hindu Gymkhana 255 (Saket Adhikari 85, Kaustubh Latke 61;Ramesh Powar 6-71, Vineet Sarang 3-86) on first innings lead. Parsee Gymkhana 199-9 declared (Pravin Tambe 53, Sanjeev Srivastav 64; Prathamesh Athawale 4-59) and 254 (Sujit Nakhre 44, Sanjay Hadpi 77; Padmanabh Kulkarni 3-39) bt Fort Vijay 173 (Pravin Tambe 4-54) and 80-0 (Santosh Chaphe not out 51) on first innings lead. Shivaji Park Youngsters 212-9 declared (Amit Aroskar 78, Bharat Karnik 5-43, Shreeram Kannan 3-38) and 71-2 lost to Shivaji Park Gymkhana 404 (Amit Pagnis 53, Ojaz Mehta 63, Bharat Karnik 41, Shreeram Kannan 40; Sandeep Dahad 4-117, Omprakah Tiwari 4-48) on first innings lead.

Colts win
IC Colts beat last year’s runner-up Kalina United 2-1 in the Rink Football Tournament organised by Gajanan Krida Mandal (Vile Parle East) at the Waman Dubhashi Kreedangan. Ravin Gothad gave the lead for Kalina United while Russel D’Souza scored both goals.
Other results: Macabi-Tel-Aviv 3 (Andel Pereira 2, Vinayak Gawde) bt Liza VIII 0, United Boys (Vile Parle) 4 (Rakesh Dias, NicanoMisquitta, Clint Rodrigues, Ceralad Pereira) bt Castle Boys 2 (Linton D’Souza, Agnelo Picardo).

Top seeds upset
Top seeds and defending champions Narsingrao Sakari-Suhas Pomedkar were upset by unseeded Anil Golatkar-Ashok Ghole 18-19, 14-24 in the open doubles third round of the ninth District carrom championship at Sharda Mangal Karyalaya, Naigaum.
Results: Open doubles (third round): Anil Golatkar/Ashok Ghole bt Narsingrao Sakari/Suhas Pomedkar 19-18, 24-14; Vinit Dadarkar/Vishal Chandorkar bt Nasir Khan/Shashi Kondkar 16-25, 25-6, 25-13; Harji Boricha/Dilip Sosa bt Sanjay Lad/P Budhe 23-10, 3-25, 22-18; Ramdas Katta/Gorakhnath Gokhane bt Pradeep Chunekar/Dinesh Mohadikar 8-24, 13-8, 25-8; Shailendra Barve/Deepak Kale bt Prakash Thosar/Rakesh Khedekar 8-25, 25-5, 25-12; Ravindra Patil/Sandeep Jogale bt Dilesh Khedeka/Jitendra Kale 25-13, 25-13.

Fleet-Footers score
Fleet-footers, Borivli, defeated St Xavier’s, Vile Parle, 3-1 in the quarter-finals of the 19th Brother PaulusMemorial football tournament at the St Francis D’Assisi school ground, Borivli.

Ephraun Andrews, Chirag Shaikh and Nitin Shetty scored for the winners in that order after Paresh Makwana had given St Xavier’s the lead.Fleet-Footers next meet Saki Village in the semis.

Earlier, Holiday Inn earned a semi-final meeting with Union Boys after defeating D’Assisi ECA 2-0. Ranzie Kalicharan and Dennis Chettiar scored for the hoteliers.

Mantralaya dominate
Mantralaya Gymkhana dominated the proceedings at the 25th Tata Inter-Offices bridge tournament at the ACC Sports Club. Mantralaya’s pair of SG Kakirde and AR Pradhan emerged at the top of the 22 pairs that qualified for the final session of the Pairs Progressive event. Kakirde and Pradhan finished with 298 match points.

Mastan advance
Mastan YMCA downed Nutan Bharat Yuvak Sangh, Nagpur 62-59 in a close men’s league match of the third Fr Agnel Open basketball tournament at Vashi on Sunday.
Results (Men): Indian Navy 84 (GK Mali21) bt Somaiya SC 41 (Nilesh Jadhav 16) HT 51-21; Mastan YMCA 62 (Siraj Khan 22) bt NBYS, Nagpur 59 (Bhavesh K 21) HT 31-27.