February 8: There was a close battle for supremacy before Capt V Raichand (13) and CDE Thakur (14) emerged victorious in the Digjam Golf Tournament, a better-ball Stableford event held at the United Services Club Course, here today.The pair collected 45 points, 25 on the way back with the help of five nett birdies and one net eagle. They were followed by S Trivedi (17) and Cdr R Gaekwad (16), who along with four other pairs aggregated 44 points and were declared the runners-up on the countback. On the back nine, Trivedi and Gaekwad shot seven nett birdies and one nett eagle after going out in 17.The other pairs with 44 were MM Dutta and M Talib; Rajiv Chandoke and KS shekon; Cdr. SV Joshi and Cdr K Vasudeva; and S Mediratta and V Kumar.Narwar shocks PednekarNitin Narwar of Mumbai Police surprised eighth seed Suhas Pednakar in the second round of the Bombay Division Selection Chess Tournament being held at the Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Canteen, Sayani Road.Top seed Dinesh Bhandarkar ofLIC and defending champion Ketan Boricha of Lala Lajpatrai College scored easy victories.G Balaji of Andhra Education Society's Junior College defeated Pratap Chavan while Senior Division player Abhijit Burke of Podar, lost against Shankar Subramaniam of MTNL.RESULTSSecond Round: C Reddy (1) lost to DG Bhandarkar (2); Ketan Boricha (2) bt R Gajangi (1); Pratap Chavan (1) lost to G Balaji (2); Abhijit Bhurke (1) lost to S Shankar (2); A Karandikar (1) lost to Ganesh Bhilare (2); Dr. S Raja (2) bt DR Sahiar (2); AR Kuvalekar (1) lost to Subhash Honmurgi (2); S Pednekar (1) lost to Nitin Nawar (2); M Srinath (2) bt H Prabhudesai (1); Subhash Kale (1) lost to Paresh Gandhi (2); Ramesh Khadye (1.5) drew with Venkatesh Rao (1.5); Kiran Pitale (2) bt Tehan Kashalkar (1); Sharif Gori (2) bt Nikhil Bhat (1); PS Dhabolkar (1) lost to AN Iyer (2); Girish Chandanani (2) bt Sunil Khadilkar (1); Omkar Upasani (1) lost to Girish Pillai (2).Pratim, Sonal topPratim Parikh and Sonal Phadke won theunder-16 boys and girls titles in the KP Batheja Open Junior Tennis tournament at the Khar Gymkhana here today. Pratim defeated Gavryl Fernandes 6-4, 6-4 while Sonal won 6-0, 2-6, 6-4 over Liza Pereira.OTHER RESULTS (all finals)Boys under-14: Rohan Gajjar bt Ankit Doshi 6-3, 6-2. Under-12: Karan Rastogi bt C Akshay 6-0, 6-1. Girls under-14: Isha Lakhani bt Noopur Desai 6-2, 6-2.Joseph nets threeJoseph Sequira scored three goals in Anjuman-I-Islam's 5-1 win over Dadar YB in the Third Division WIFA Football League match at the Cooperage today. Felix Sequira and Justin Cheriyan scored the other two goals while Chandrakant Solanki reduced the margin for the losers.OTHER RESULTSDiv II-B: Taj Air Caterers 3 (Rajesh Choudhury, Mukesh Kohli, A Walter) bt Milan FC 0; Div II-C: Madanpura 0 drew with IC Colts 0.
