RCF spikers claim title

Somaiya top
Somaiya Sports Club defeated Chembur YMCA 74-55 (HT 29-28) in the final of the inaugural Acharya College U-22 winter basketball league at Chembur today. Kayron Gomes (16), brother Ralph (22), Pankaj Rane (10) and Sachin More (10) scored for the winners, while Santosh Rao (20), Sheldon Buthello (10) and A Jude (14) served Chembur YMCA. International Shahid Qureshi gave away the prizes — kit bags for members of each of the five participating teams.

Companeroes triumph
Companeroes defeated Rajputs 2-1 in the St Peter’s Youth Centre rink hockey tournament at St Stanislaus School today.

Results: Companeroes 2 (David Cardoz 2) bt Rajputs 1(Gavin Vandrine); RCF 3 (Solomon Alexander 2, S Megraj) bt Young Sports 1 (Alalesh Yesur); Wednesday’s matches: MbPT 4 (Leonard Pereira 3, Javed Shaikh) bt Republicans 0; Central Bank 2 (Jude D’Souza, Brian D’Souza) bt Fr Agnel, Vashi 1 (G Vivek); RCF 5 (S Megraj 3, Solomon Alexander 2) bt SAI 0.

Amladi XI, Surve XI win
Mohini Amladi XI and Tukaram Surve XI registered outright wins against Appa Babrekar XI and K Ramchandran XI, respectively, in the second-round of the MCA under-22 cricket selection trials for the Omtex Trophy, conducted by the Dadar Parsee Zorastrian, at the Dadkar Maidan, Matunga (E), today.

Brief scores:
Babrekar XI 272 and 108 (Rupesh Pawar 7-42, Kishore Vaity 3-33) lost to Amladi XI 206 and 175 (Amit Aroskar 71).

Ramchandran XI 253 and 168 (Rohan Bagade 62; Darshan Shivalkar 3-67, Amol Bhalekar 4-48) lost to Surve XI 323 (Hrishikesh Shende 66, Kunal More 36, Saket Adhikari 94, Viraj Zagade 30, Darshan Shivalkar 30 n.o.; Yogesh Kaudhare5-72) and 99-1 (Hrishikesh Shende 54 n.o., Amol Bhalekar 30).

Sane sights double
Vikrant Sane and Isha Lakhani, both of Maharashtra, are heading for a double crown in the boys and girls U-14 and 16 respectively of the Hero Honda junior National ranking tennis championship in Pune today, according to information available here.

Results (prefix denotes ranking)
Boys (U-14): 1-Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt 4-Karan Rastogi (Mah) 7-6 (7-1) 6-0; Chatvinder Singh (Chand) bt V Vignesh (TN) 6-3 7-6 (7-5). (U-16): Rohan Gajjar (Mah) bt 1-Amanjyot Singh (Chand) 5-7 6-4 7-6(7-5); 5-Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt 2-Jaco Mathew (TN) 6-4 6-1.

Girls (U-14): 1-Isha Lakhani (Mah) bt 5-Deepa Chakravarthy (Guj) 6-1 2-6 6-3; Kartiki Bhatt (Mah) bt Nivedita Venkatesh (TN) 7-6 (9-7) 7-5; (U-16): Samrita Shekhar (TN) bt Manasi Modi (AP) 6-2 6-3; Isha Lakhani (Mah) bt Deepa Chakravarthy (Guj) 7-5 6-2.

State ranking: Boys U-10 (Final): 3-Agnel Gladwin (Mum) bt 2-Tejas Chaukulkar (Pun) 6-3 6-3;Girls U-10 (final): 3-Roshini Luthra bt 1-Ayushi Sinha (Nashik) 6-3 6-4.

Maharashtra qualify
Defending champions Railways, Maharashtra, Bank Sports Board, Haryana and Karnataka men entered the knock-out stage of the Mayor’s Cup 46th Senior National kabaddi championship in Amravati, according to information available here. Maharashtra beat Chandigarh 24-19 today.

In the women’s section, Railways and Maharashtra registered convincing victories. Maharashtra beat Karnataka 48-18, while Railways downed Andhra Pradesh 74-24.