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Journalism of Courage
MUMBAI, SEPT 19: Saloni Balgi of Mary Immaculate Girls High School, Borivli, continued her winning streak by clinching her second title of the season at University Pavilion today. She unseated Niharika Thakkar, last year’s U-16 champion, to claim the MSSA-Colgate Inter-school girls U-14 chess title. Saloni had won the DSO Inter-schools (U-17) last month.
Three other titles were up for grabs on the final day, and eventually, there were five winners.
Kartik Viswanathan of Jamnabai Narsee, the only of the lot to have his own Elo ranking (2173), won the Under-16 title. For a boy who does not have a coach, and practises against the Fritz 5 programme on his computer, his 100 per cent performance — eight points from eight rounds — is commendable. The Girls U-16 title went to Parle Tilak (English)’s Yogita Yevle, third last year.
AKASH TOSSES OUT AMAR:
St Stanislaus’ Akash Khalwadekar defended his U-14 title, but only just. He and Amar Kamat (Patkar Vidyalaya) finished joint winners, but Akash tookhome the trophy after the spin of a coin. Amar was a sporting loser, a ready smile hiding the obvious disappointment.
FINAL STANDINGS
Boys (U-16): 1 Kartik Viswanathan (Jamnabai) 8, 2 Amit Mayabhate (Lawrence, Borivli) 6.5, 3 Siddharth Alvares (Scottish) 6, 4 Nikhil Bhat (Xavier’s, Fort) 6, 5 Vikram Honmurgi (Vasant Vihar) 6, 6 Karan Kabra (IES, Bandra) 6; (U-14): 1 Akash Khalwadekar (Stanislaus) 7.5, 2 Amar Kamat (Patkar) 7.5, 3 Kabir Malhotra (Cathedral) 6, 4 Yashodan Gogte (Scottish), 5 Swanand Phadke (Parle Tilak) 6, 6 Sameer Thakkar (Janki Devi) 6.
Girls (U-16): 1 Yogita Yevle (Parle Tilak) 7.5, 2 Priyanka Vora (JB Vachha) 7.5, 3 Suvidha Patil (IES, Dadar) 6, 4 Manisha Chelani (Mount Mary) 6, 5 Purva Pakhare (Gokuldham) 5.5, 6 Aditi Singhvi (Joseph, Bandra) 5; (U-14): 1 Saloni Balgi (MIG) 7.5, 2 Niharika Thakkar (Janki Devi) 7, 3 Mugdha Variyar (Gokuldham) 6, 4 Leann Almeida (MIG) 6, 5 Purva Variyar (Gokuldham) 5.5, 6 Nashahita Deboo (Vachha) 5.5.
Jamnabai, OLPS in final
JamnabaiNarsee and OLPS, Chembur entered the finals of the Boys U-16 MSSA-Colgate Inter-school badminton team championship at CCI today. Narsee had an easy passage into the final, after Bombay Scottish’s Sahil Sarang turned up late for his opening singles against Jamnabai’s Anand Pawar. Sahil was forced to concede a walk-over, and was disallowed from participating in the deciding doubles, after Abhishek Phatarphekar beat Varun Motasha to help Scottish draw level. There was no such drama in the second semi-final. OLPS won 2-0.
RESULTS
Boys team (semis): Jamnabai bt Scottish 2-1 (Anand Pawar w/o Sahil Sarang, Varun Motasha lost to Abhishek Phatarphekar 8-15 11-15, Anand & Vikram Bhatnagar w/o Abhishek & Sahil); OLPS bt Francis D’Assisi 2-0 (Kumar Ravendran bt Riaz Mhowalla 15-1 15-1, Ajay Jayram bt Salil Balgi 15-9 15-12).
Nikhil nets five
Five goals, including a hat-trick, by Nikhil Shetty propelled Bombay Cambridge to a 8-0 drubbing of St Xavier’s, Andheri, in an u-12 III-G encounter of theMSSA-Colgate Inter-School football tournament at the Holy Family High School ground, Andheri, today. In an u-12 III-J match at the same venue, a hat-trick by Rose Romell highlighted Holy Cross, Mira Road’s 4-0 win over Remedy.
RESULTS
Under-12 III-D: Cathedral & John Connon 4 (Manek Mathur 3, Khushaal Thackery) bt GD Somani 0. III-F: Holy Family, Chembur 0 drew with St Xavier’s, Bhandup 0. I-D: Our Lady of Salvation 1 (Joannes Fernandes) bt St Joseph’s, Vikhroli 0. III-F: St Joseph’s, Wadala 1 (Nikhil Bhanshali) bt St Pius, Mulund 0. III-H: St Lawrence 1 (Omkar Patil) bt St Joseph’s, Colaba 0. I-B: St Mary’s ISC A 0 drew with Fatima, Vidyavihar 0. III-G: Bombay Cambridge 8 (Nikhil Shetty 5 including hat-trick, Surya Delhvi 2, Chintan Shah) bt St Xavier’s. Andheri 0; St Francis D’Assisi C 0 drew with St Mary’s, Kalina 0. III-J: St Thomas, Goregaon 1 (Siddharth Mohile) bt Yashodam 0; Holy Cross, Mira Road 4 (Rose Romell 3 hat-trick, Karl Fernandes) bt OL Remedy 0.
