Sydenham stun HR Commerce

MUMBAI, January 25: Last year's finalists Sydenham College extracted a sweet revenge shocking defending champions HR College of Commerce wit...

MUMBAI, January 25: Last year’s finalists Sydenham College extracted a sweet revenge shocking defending champions HR College of Commerce with an emphatic 3-1 victory in the semi-finals of the Bombay University Inter-Collegiate Badminton Championships at the University Pavilion here this afternoon.

The winners now take on the might of Joshi Bedekar, who slugged it out before emerging 3-2 victors over Mithibai.

HR, whoever, can gain solace in Sanket Shetty’s entry into the men’s singles final. Shetty, who had registered the only victory for HR in the team event in the semis, downed Sydenham’s Kunal Vaswani 15-9 15-6 top enter the final. Shetty’s opponent in the summit clash will be Mithibai’s Sushant Niddedi, who upstaged Harshad Tawde of Sydenham 15-6 15-3.

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Defending champions in the women’s team event, Ruia did not damage to their reputation recording a convincing 2-0 victory over RA Podar to enter the final. They lock horns with Joshi Bedekar, made the grade without playing as their semi-final opponents Mithibai failed to turn up.

Results (all semi-finals)

Men’s singles: Sanket Shetty (HR Com) bt Kunal Vaswani (Sydenham) 15-9 15-6; Sushant Niddedi (mithibai) bt Harshad Tawde (Sydenham) 15-6 15-13

Team championship: Joshi Bedekar bt Mithibai 3-2 (Luckish Somane lost to Sushant Niddedi 15-7 15-9; Amrish S bt Kunal 15-6 15-1; Luckish & Amog Kulkarni lost to Sushant & Gautam Podar 15-8 6-15 5-15; Kulkarni bt Potdar 15-7 15-4). Sydenham bt HR Com 3-1 (Aditya Khansaheb bt Prashant 15-8 0-15 15-8; Harshad Tawde lost to Sanket Shetty 9-15 17-16 8-15; Kunal Vaswani & Aditya bt Shetty & Aftab 15-12 15-9; Vaswani bt Bezaad Devadwala 15-8 15-18 15-3)

Women’s team event: Ruia bt RA Podar 2-0 (Shalaka Damle bt Uma Madhavan 11-0 11-1; Geetanjali Katrak bt Shashikala Ramani 11-1 11-2); Joshi Bedekar w/o Mithibai

Hitmat ‘tricks

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A hat-trick by Hitmat Singh was the highlight of Rhino Sports Club’s 3-0 win over BBC in the pre-quarter-finals of the Bombay Football RefereesAssociation Fair Play Trophy Tournament, sponsored by Freewill Sports Pvt Ltd, at the St Xavier’s ground, Parel, today.

Other Results: PQF: Don Bosco Youth Centre 1 (Babla Jean) bt Sutarwar 0; MMPK 1 (Vijay Pokhakar) bt Bandra Packers 0; MAM 1 (Jeevan Bhangi) bt Naval Dockyard 0; Wenden Institute 2 (Padma Bhadur, Shrikant Nayak) bt Beach Boys 1 (Hasmukh Baria); BBC B 1 (Maxie D’Souza) bt JJSC 0; Wenden Institute B 2 (Abhesheik Jadav, Harish Devadiga) bt Holy Family 0; Friends 4 (Gilbert Boothello 2, Easdon Fernandes, Neil Noronha).

Goregaon XI beat BEST

Goregaon XI defeated BEST 2-1 in the Hockey Association of Mumbai Rizvi Third Division League at the St Andrew’s ground, Bandra, today.

Mohan Menon and Rajesh Pote scored for the winners and V Furtado did likewise for the losers.

Republicans C win

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Bombay Republicans C’ routed Brother’s Sports Club 3-1 in a crucial qualifying Pool B Division IV encounter of the Bombay Hockey Association League at BHA Stadium here this evening.

Both sides were locked 1-1 at half-time.

In a Divison III pool C tie Rebel SC trounced Eskimos B 3-1.

Young Challengers held Marinagar to a 1-1 draw in a Division I match. Darshan Pardeshi equalised for Challengers after L Rodrigues had given Marinagar the lead.

Kang victorious

Lt Col KJS Kang won the 36-hole stroke play Republic Day Trophy at the BPGC course today. He improved on his first day 82 with a round of 75, shooting three birdies for an aggregate of 157. Ratan Bali with a total of 160 finished second. Capt Kailash Harsh won the prize for the best net (144).