Sushil Kumar 8216;tricks

MUMBAI, JAN 18: Sushil Kumar netted all four goals as RCF thrashed Reserve Bank 4-1 in the second Goan Sports Association Veterans footba...

MUMBAI, JAN 18: Sushil Kumar netted all four goals as RCF thrashed Reserve Bank 4-1 in the second Goan Sports Association Veterans football tournament at the Cross maidan, today. Calisto Pereira reduced the margin.

Tatas beat Bombay Customs 4-1. N Ganesh Rao, Surendra Kumar, Kalyan Sarkar and Camilo D8217;Silva scored for Tatas. Conrad Pereira netted the consolation goal for Customs.

In yet another match, Karnatak held Century Rayon goalless.

Karnatak held

Satya Vijaya held Karnatak 1-1 in the Ramnath Payyade football tournament, sponsored by Payyade International, at the Karnatak Sporting Association ground, Churchgate, today.

Navin Kotian scored for Karnatak and Sanjay Anand equalised.

In the other tie, Kanara Bros swamped Uchil United 7-0. J W Pinto 3, Sunil Kumar 3 and Jayant Kunder scored.

Vijay Singh shines

Four goals by Vijay Singh were the feature of Ordnance Factory8217;s 7-0 rout of Voltas in Pool A of the BHA Fourth Division league at the Khalsa College ground,today.

Johnny, Mohan Hazarnis and J J Mathai were the scorers.

Sachivalaya Gymkhana failed to turn up for their Third Division tie against Indian Airlines.

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There will be no match at this venue on Tuesday.

Ghag, best bodybuilder

Mavis Gymnasium8217;s Sujay Ghag was declared the winner of title of Jai Bharat Sri 1999 from among 35 participants in the Thane District Level Amateur Body-Building Contest held under the auspices of the Jai Bharat Vyayamshala, Kalwa on Sunday.

RESULTS

Group 1: Suresh Rane Lawrence Health Club, Thane; Group 2: Sujay Ghag; Group 3: Jitesh More Jai Bharat; Group 4: Ganesh Koli Gramin Police Club, Thane; Best Team: Lawrence; Best Poser: Suresh Rane Lawrence

Nataraj, Varsha prevail

Top seed M Nataraj and Varsha Narayanan of Indian Oil retained the men8217;s and women8217;s title, respectively, in the Petroleum Sports Control Board held in Pune according to information reaching here.

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In the final today, Natarajdefeated Simon Isaac, also of IOC, 25-11, 22-25, 25-0. Earlier in the day he paired with K Ramesh Babu to retain the doubles crown also. Varsha beat Surekha Nagwekar of ONGC 25-4, 25-0 for the women8217;s crown. She too teamed up with Madhuri T for the doubles crown.

GIC supreme

The GIC Housing Finance team of Anil Padhye, Anal Shah, Shrikant Tembe, Raju Arondekar, BP Oke and Shahshi Limaye won the team of four duplicate title in the inaugural bridge tournament held at Otters Club. GIC, who had scores of 16-14 against Dk Rao, 14-16 against Archie, defeated I Doctors 21-9 for the crown.. DK Rao finished second and were followed by Archie and I Doctors.

In the mixed pairs, Sudha Thosar and Raju Arondekar stood first while Indira Sonawalla and TV Ramani came second.

In the team of four progressive Ravi Raju, Yogesh Banavali, Deepak Pradhan and Krishnan won the event with 97 match points.