St Xavier8217;s champions

MUMBAI, September 21: St Xavier's College regained the Mumbai University inter-collegiate women's basketball title at Indian Gymkhana tod...

MUMBAI, September 21: St Xavier8217;s College regained the Mumbai University inter-collegiate women8217;s basketball title at Indian Gymkhana today, beating GN Khalsa College 47-18 in the final. Xavier8217;s had yielded the title last year to VG Vaze after winning in 1997-98. Podar finished third, beating Vaze 49-17 in another one-sided affair.

Khalsa suffered from lack of arsenal in offence. Quintina Noronha, who was their only good player in offence, was easily marked by a sound Xavier8217;s defence. Khalsa also did well while protecting their own end, and managed to keep junior National Loveena Figueiredo from running amok. But it took only a simple screen for Xavier8217;s to flounder Khalsa. Sangeeta D8217;Silva did that job with aplomb, and made merry on the passes from Loveena to top-score with 25 points.

The end of the game was marred by a sad incident, when Khalsa8217;s Sonali D8217;Souza was brought down by Xavier8217;s Sangeeta D8217;Silva. Sonali lay motionless on the court for a few moments and suffered a blow on herhead.

Results final

Xavier8217;s 47 Sangeeta D8217;Silva 25, Loveena Figueiredo 17 bt Khalsa 18 Quintina Noronha 11, Hemali Tawde 6; Third place: Podar 49 Darshani Sawant 26, Ami Momaya 10, Vandana Subramony 9 bt Vaze 17 Anita Joshi 7 HT 27-3.

Sathaye spikers win

Sathaye College defeated sister concern Mulund College of Commerce 25-17, 25-19 in the men8217;s second round of the inter-college degree volleyball tournament at Somaiya College today.

Results 2nd round

Men: Mithibai bt AP Commerce 25-17 25-8; Sydenham bt Somaiya Science 20-26 26-24 15-9; Ruia bt Govt Law 26-16 26-19; Sardar Patel bt NM Commerce 25-27 25-22 16-14; Thakur bt Xavier8217;s 25-18 25-18; Tolani bt KC 25-21 25-22; Vaze bt Ismail Yusuf 25-14 25-17; Bhavan8217;s bt Khandwala 25-14 27-25; Sathaye bt Mulund Commerce 25-17 25-9; PD Lions bt Chetana 28-22 25-21; Burhani bt DAV 25-7 25-7; Saboo Siddik bt RA Podar 25-23 25-15; Somaiya Arts bt Elphinstone 25-16 25-17; Jai Hind bt B Vartak 16-25 29-27 15-11; NR Swamy btMLDC 25-21 8-25 15-5; St Andrew8217;s bt Vivek 29-27 20-25 15-12.

Women: Bhavan8217;s bt Sophia 25-22 25-6; Mulund Commerce bt Royal 25-4 25-8; Sathaye bt ICL 25-12 25-7; Xavier8217;s w/o Vaze; Birla w/o ASC Panvel.

Rohan stretched

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RA Podar8217;s Rohan Radhakrishnan had to struggle before advancing to the quarter-finals of the inter-college degree badminton tournament at University Pavilion today. Rohan was kept on court for three games by KC8217;s P Raj before winning 15-9 13-15 15-10.

Results

Men singles 4th round: Kunal Vaswani KC bt Ankush Gupte Wilson 15-1 15-2; S Kanade CHM bt Avishkar Patil GSM 17-15 15-12; Nikesh Gabrera Shahani bt Amit Sanas SIES 15-7 15-1; Anupam Singh Vaze bt Sanjesh D8217;Souza Jondhale 15-8 15-9; Himanshu Thakkar Joshi Bedekar bt Amol Upadhye Kirti 15-1 15-2; Mayur Bhojwani HR bt Kunal Rawal Mithibai 15-10 15-5; Deepak Jetley Sydenham bt Haresh Paliyath Finolex 11-15 15-10 15-2; Behzad Devadhwala Podar bt Azeem Jagani National 15-1 15-10;Harshad Tawde Sydenham bt Vishal Hansraj Bom Engg 15-12 15-10; AD Vakharia Kandivli bt Varif Vazifdar HR 15-5 15-2; P Raj KC w/o A Mahajan Vivekanand; Rohan Radhakrishnan Podar w/o M Orval Khalsa; Rahul Tipnis Mithibai bt Yezad Wadia Elphinstone 15-11 15-0; Rushabh Modi Shahani bt Dinkar Bhatt Birla 15-12 15-10; A Bajaj NM bt Shiva Bhavan8217;s 15-8 15-3; Bhushan Paithankar Joshi bt Ranjeet Jhaveri National 15-9 15-3. PQF: Kunal Vaswani KC bt S Kanade CHM 15-10 15-9; Anupam Singh bt Nikesh Gabrera Shahani 15-8 15-9; Himanshu Thakkar Joshi Bedekar bt Mayur Bhojwani HR 15-4 15-6; Behzad Devadhwala Podar bt Deepak Jetley Sydenham 15-10 10-15 15-13; Rohan Radhakrishnan Podar bt P Raj KC 15-9 13-15 15-10; Rahul Tipnis Mithibai w/o Rushabh Modi Shahani; Bhushan Paithankar Joshi bt A Bajaj NM 15-1 15-4.

Women8217;s singles 3rd round: Sapna Desai Joshi bt Nikita Sawant Somani 11-0 11-0; Charmi Sethia Podar bt Trupti Shinde NR Swamy 11-1 11-1; Sampada PaiRuparel bt Koneri Gandha NM 11-2 11-4; Y Hannah Xavier8217;s bt Sridevi Tambi Sathaye 11-3 11-2; Prajakta Mhatre Bhavan8217;s bt Zenobia Mistry Birla 11-0 11-0; Aruna Jayaram SIES w/o Shalaka Damle Ruia; Anuj Wadke Bhavan8217;s bt Rameshwari Varde BV Engg 11-1 11-1; Sangeeta Chawla Khalsa bt Priti Talpate Ruparel 11-9 11-8; Priya Ramchandani Jai Hind bt Sarika Ayre Sathaye 11-1 11-8; Gauri Narayan Podar bt Karishma Sampat Wilson 11-0 11-0; Pooja Kotwani HR bt Avanti Gade Sydenham 11-2 11-1. 4th round: Charmi Sethia Podar w/o Ramona Jamwal Sophia; Sampada Pai Ruparel bt Y Hannah Xavier8217;s 11-2 11-2; Prajakta Mhatre Bhavan8217;s bt Aruna Jayram SIES 11-8 11-0; Gauri Narayan Podar bt Priya Ramchandani Jai Hind 11-3 11-1; Pooja Kotwani HR bt Vaishali Desai NM 11-5 11-1; Anuj Wadke Bhavan8217;s bt Sangeeta Chawla Khalsa 11-0 11-0.

Podar, Vaze score

RA Podar beat BH Somani 2-0 and VG Vaze got the better of Tolani by an identical margin in the JuniorInter-Collegiate girls badminton tournament at the Kalidas Gymkhana, today.

Huge lead for MCC

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Mulund Commerce MCC maintained their domination in the Inter-college degree chess championship, conducted by Bombay Chess Association and Mumbai University at DAV, Bhandup today. In the third and fourth rounds today, MCC defeated Vartak and RK Talreja 3.5-0.5 and 4-0 respectively. They lead the eight-team league with 15.5 points after four rounds. HR are in second place with 11 points, while Pendharkar and Vivekanand Engg are locked in third place 9 points.

In the girls championship, fourth seed Kadambari Herwadkar upset last year8217;s runner-up and top seed Malti Whatwar Chetana to lead with four points.