Shane nets three

Under-12: I-A: St Francis D’Assisi (Bor) 3 (Sandeep Kuckian 2, Amey Pangam) bt Don Bosco (Bor) 0, St Anne’s (Orlem) 1 (Duan D’Mello) bt Holy Family (Andheri) `A’ 0; I-C: St Stanislaus (Ban) `A’ 3 (Rohan Thomas, Shane Vanshipley, Tyrell Valladares) BT sT Xavier’s (Fort) 0; II-A: Our Lady of Remedy (Khandivli) `A’ 2 (Adrian D’Souza 2) bt St Thomas (Goregaon) 1 (Leon Fernandes); II-B: Campion School 5 (Sauhil Rajpal 2, Tejan Diwanji 2, Ashish Bhatiya) bt Holy Name (Colaba) 0; II-C: Our Lady of Salvation (Dadar) 3 (Ranzie Rodrigues, Melvyn Fernandes, Clayton D’Souza) bt St Stanislaus (Ban) `B’ 0, Bombay Scottish (Mahim) 4 (Taaran Cariappa 2, Philip Varghese 2) bt St Joseph’s (Vikhroli) 0, St Andrew’s (Ban) `A’ 3 (Naeem Jagani 2, Tyron Pereira) bt Dr Antonio D’Silva Academy (Dadar) 0; III-A: Gokuldham (Goregaon) 1 (Shailendra Pal) bt Our Lady of Remedy (Khandivli) `B’ 0; III-D: Greenlawn’s High School (BP) 0 drew with New Era High School 0; III-E: Marol Education 0 drew with St Xavier’s (Andheri) `A’ 0, St Mary’s (Kalina) 4 (Shane Mendonca 3, Vincy Rebello) bt Utpal Sanghvi (Juhu) 0; III-H: Anjuman Khairul (Madanpura) 5 (Ansari Affan 2, Ansari Suffiyan 2, Munshi Affan) bt Learners Academy (Ban) 0

Gandhi cliams title: Paresh Gandhi of Ghatkopar emerged champion of the YMCC Open chess tournament today. He scored six points out of a possible seven.

Dinesh Barodiya was second also with six points, while PB Bhilare was third with the same number of points. The positions were decided on the basis of progressive scores. Vikramaditya Kamble and Giridhar Adhikari were best sub-juniors. Seeds share lead: Arun Pandit (Elo 2250), Sharad Gokul (2095) and Dinesh Bhandarkar (2045) continued to share the lead after three rounds of Gokuldham Chess Club chess tournament. Vijay N Bhat and BE Buchia shared the top spot with three points each.

In the under-16 category, Kedar Prabhavalkar, Ninad Konakanchi and Ameya Karandikar led with three points each. Swanand Phadke Vinay Kumar and Shamank Joshi were the joint leaders in the under-12 category. They had three points each.