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Nayakar to lead State teamRavi Nayakar BPCL will lead Maharashtra in the Vth National Games hockey championships to be held at Imphal ...

Nayakar to lead State team
Ravi Nayakar BPCL will lead Maharashtra in the Vth National Games hockey championships to be held at Imphal Manipur from February 14 to 25.

Team 8211; Goalkeepers: Edgar Mascarenhas Jr Air-India and A P Girish Tatas. Defenders: Romeo Albuquerque Air-India, Cheops D8217;Costa BPT, S Krishnamurthy Tatas and M K Prakash BPCL. Halves: Abhijit Shirsat, Shayne D8217;Costa both of BPT, Enrico Fernandes Tatas, Errol D8217;Silva Bombay Customs and Sunil Pereira Air-India. Forwards: Suresh Pereira Bombay Customs, Ravi Nayakar captain BPCL, B N Madan Mahindras, Gavin Ferreira, Claes Ferreira and Manoj Lokhande all three of Tatas. Manager: Kuldip Singh Sandhu Bombay Customs. Coach: Clarence Lobo Tatas.

Stand-byes: Arun Gurung Central Bank, C D8217;Mello RCF, Viren Rasquinha Tatas, Gurmeet Singh SBI, Leonard Pereira BPT and Vijay Alphonso Bombay Customs.

12 state boxers for Natl Games
The Maharashtra Amateur Boxing Associationwill send 12 boxers to represent Maharashtra in the 5th National Games, to be held at Imphal:Bhushan Hedaoo Lt Fly, Umakant Shinde Fly Keshav Mutgar Bantam, Vijay Yadav Feather, CP Chauhan Light, Rajesh Yadav Lt Middle, Lakhvinder Athwal Welter, Rakesh Yadav Lt Middle, Manoj Mishra Middle, Rajesh Rajput Lt Heavy, Ajit Parab Heavy, Sanjay Jordar Super Heavy.

The Maharashtra sub-junior team returned with a rich haul of three gold, two silver and two bronze from the Nationals held at West Bengal last month. While Mangesh Yadav, Amit Nagwekar and Brian Sanders bagged gold, Komal Yadav and Lalit Dengda silver, Jaisingh Patil and Nabi Khan bronze were the other medal winners.

Inter-School tournaments
The MSSA-Colgate Annual Inter-School Handball Tournament for boys and girls in the age-group of u-16 and u-14 will be held at the School Sports Centre, Azad Maidan from Feb 22 to 25. Entries for the same should be submitted latest by Feb 12. The Mini-Basketball Tournament foru-13 boys and girls will be held at the same venue from Feb 19 to 27.

IIT to host State-level swim meet
IIT, Mumbai will host their 14th open state-level swimming gala on February 27 and 28. The date for acceptance of entries has been extended to Feb 8. For futher details contact Dr PM Reddy, swimming coach, on 5782545 Ext 8967, 8968.