Republicans get past bank men

MUMBAI, April 11: Bombay Republicans A overcame stiff resistance when they defeated Union Bank 2-1 in the Bombay Hockey Association-conducte...

MUMBAI, April 11: Bombay Republicans A overcame stiff resistance when they defeated Union Bank 2-1 in the Bombay Hockey Association-conducted Senior Division League encounter at the Mahindra Stadium today.

Lynden Zuzarte gave Republicans the lead in the ninth minute. But UBI restored parity 10 minutes later through Rajesh Matkari who sounded the boards after Stanley Thomas had done the spadework.

The youthful Republicans had a slight edge in the interesting proceedings that followed after the change of ends. And ace striker Vijay Alphonso converted their superiority into terms of a goal when he scored from a penalty-corner in the 39th minute to seal victory.

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There will be no matches at this venue on Easter Sunday.

One-sided affairs

Four goals by Elton Menezes were the highlight of Malad A’s 6-0 triumph over Mahim in the City-Suburb Areawise tournament, conducted by Hockey Association of Mumbai, at the St Andrew’s ground, Bandra. Lenny Soares scored the other two goals for Malad.

In anothermatch, Parel B defeated Eastern Suburbs 6-0. N Sapkal (2), R Jadhav (2), S Mumble (1) and B Yesur (1) were the goal-getters.

Piramal champs

Piramal Enterprises beat 61 Cavalry 10-5 in the final of the Presidents Polo Cup during the 53rd Annual Horse Show & Polo tournament at the Mahalakshmi Race Course on Thursday.

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Piramal were the favourites with a better goal tally of 17 against Cavalry’s 11.

The team 61 Cavalry made many forays into the Piramal half but could not translate the moves into goals. For the winners Lokendra Singh scored five goals and Manupal Godara netted four. Dhruvpal Godara and Vishal Singh were the other members of the Piramal.

Income-Tax tops

Income-tax won the F Division Times Shield cricket tournament final when they defeated Lubrizol by virtue of their first innings lead in the four-day final.

Brief score: Income-Tax 502 (Baba Chavan 144, Rohit Rudra 175, Uday Gaikwad 66, Jagtap 35; S Patil 4-104) and 155 for no loss (Rohit Rudra 102 n.o., UdayGaikwad 50 n.o.) bt Lubrizol 435 (Sudhakar Desai 181, Sainath Patil 75, Prakash Gharat 41, Sanjay Chavan 33; Satish Pawar 4-105, Rohit Rudra 3-112).

BSES, RCF in final

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Former champions Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers will meet BSES Sports Club in the final of the 21st Kaka Saheb Diwadkar Memorial Inter-Industrial cricket tournament.

Brief scores of semis: Mumbai Municipal Corporation 111 all out in 43.2 overs (Kishore Rathod 32; Sushant Manjrekar 3-27, Sachin Khatare 3-19) lost to RCF 112 for 4 in 21 overs. BSES 147 all out in 36.2 overs (Sushant Manjrekar 36; Shailesh Khandekar 5-24) bt Siyaram Podar Group 89 all out in 36 overs (Sunil Sawant 3-18).

Khar Gym supreme

KHAR Gymkhana scored an exciting nine-run victory over New Amrit in the final of the Seth Gordhandas Shield cricket tournament at the Khar Gymkhana.Brief scores: Khar Gymkhana 280 all out in 44 overs (Nishit Shetty 54, Maroof Khan 102; Jayesh Dadarkar 5-41) bt New Amrit 271 all out in 43.5 overs (RohitNaidu 39, Jayesh Dadarkar 46 n.o., Janak Mistry 53; Nishit Shetty 3-55, Farhad Bhabha 3-44).