SNG, TMG in title clash

The women’s final will be contested between old rivals, Central Railway and Western Railway.

Results: Men’s semi-finals: SNG 68 (Pankaj Deshmukh 22, Srihari Garge 13, Sashwat Gokhale 13, Pradeep Mukherjee 11) bt Bombay YMCA 43 (Shabbir Khan 12, Imran Ansari 8, Adil Shaikh 9); TMG 68 (Clerence Menezes 19, Shibu George 14, Sheetal Raut 10) bt Central YMCA 57 (Bob Keeler 11, Donald D’Sa 21, Sanju Joseph 14).

Women’s semi-final: Central Railway 81 (Meena Pandey 20, Sheelamma Verghese 14, Cyline D’Costa 11) bt Ghatkopar YMCA 37 (Pramila pawar 22).

St. Andrew’s move up

St. Andrew’s (Bandra) and St. Stanislaus will contest in the final of the boys under-16 League when they scored easy victories in the semi-finals of the Thums Up-sponsored Inter-Schools Hockey tournament at the St. Andrew’s ground, Bandra. St. Andrew’s won 3-0 over St. Anne’s, Orlem with lester Almeida, Atif Ansari and Paul Lobo scoring for the winners. In the second semi-final, St. Stanislaus won 2-0 over Don Bosco, Matunga. Abhijit Chalke scored both the goals.

In the girls under-16 quarter-final league, Canossa beat Apostolic Carmel 1-0 with Sumila Pereira scoring the winning goal. In another match, St. Xavier’s, Kanjur Marg also won 1-0 over St. Joseph’s, Bandra. the goal, was scored by Sarika Temkar.

Electric hold Caterers

Tata Electric held Royal Caterers to a goalless draw in a Harwood league match of the MDFA at the St Xavier’s Ground, Parel, today. With this, both teams have finished their league matches with Caterers qualifying for the Super league which starts on Sunday, Dec 7.

Earlier in the day, a Division II league match between Personnel Search Services (PSS) and Mumbai Mahanagar Palika Kreeda Bhavan (MMPKB) ended in a 1-1 draw. Mario Delly took MMPKB into the lead with Suresh Arya scoring the equaliser.

Don Bosco in final

Don Bosco, Matunga and St. Xavier’s, fort will contest in the boys under-16 final in the ThumsUp-sponsored Inter-Schools Basketball tournament at the MSSA-Castrol court at the Azad Maidan here tomorrow.

In the semi-finals, Don Bosco won 46-13 over St. Stanislaus while St. Xavier’s were a close 40-39 winners over Anjuman-I-Islam.

Results: Don Bosco, Matunga 46 (Mihit Kothari 12, kenneth Parihad 9, Rohan Kumar 8) bt St. Stanislaus 13; St. Xavier’s, Fort 40 (Hsing L 21, Shun L. 15) bt Anjuman-I-Islam 39 (Nazim Khan 14, Imran Khan 8, Raees Mohd 7).Four players in lead

Four players — Jyoti Lal, Sagar Masurkar, Omkar Kulkarni and Dinesh Barodia — are in lead with four points after four rounds in the Thane Janata Sahakari Bank-sponsored Thane District Selection Chess Tournament being played at Thane.

In the fourth round, there was a major upset as second seed Vijay Thik was beaten by under-10 State champion, Omkar Kulkarni in 29 moves. Omkar had two pawns on his `c’ file but Thik did not utilise the advantage and let the youngster exchange the pawn. Kaustubh Nilegaokar, GG Mokashi and Dharave are in the second position.