Team Machhar triumphs in Tolani bridge

Machhar’s won Rs 40,000 for their victory, while India Blues took home Rs 20,000. The two losing semi-finalists, Aral and Railways A had to be content with Rs 10,000 each.

Final scores: Sunil Machhar (Sunil Machhar, Anil Padhye, AJ Mehta, Jitu Solani, Kalpana Misra, Anal Shah) 110 bt India Blues (Ashok Ruia, JM Shah, B Prabhaker, KV Krishnamurthy, DA Roy) 36 conceded.

Jindal boy’s dominate
Players from the Jindal School of Squash, Vashind, continued to hog the limelight on the second day of the Rs 4,50,0000 25th HSBC Maharashtra State Open Squash Championship at the Bombay Gymkhana’s glass-back squash courts, here on Sunday.

Ritesh Sharma was credited with the only upset of the day, getting the better of second seed Siddharth Samantaray in the second round of the boy’s under-15 category. Sharma won 9-4, 9-6, 2-9, 6-9, 9-4.

Boys u-11 (Round II): Vir Seth bt Dhruv Toshniwal 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Prashanth Kumar (Chen) bt Shirin Reddy 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Kaviraj Bhandari bt ARjun Vaidya 9-7, 9-5, 9-7; Navin Jangra bt Akhilesh Nayak 9-4, 9-6, 9-4; Jishaan Balani bt Suraj Ravindran 9-2, 9-0, 9-0; Anup Sharma bt Aditya Jagtap 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Jay Dalal bt Pratik Selarka 9-1, 9-0, 9-1.

U-13 (Round I): Jay Dalal bt Cyrus D Vakil 4-9, 9-4, 9-4, 4-9, 9-7; Yohan Sachdev bt Krish Gambers 9-4, 9-2, 9-0; Abhinav Sinha bt Jihan Advani 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Shailesh Mishra bt Arjun Shah 9-0, 9-0, 9-2; Nitin Chauhan bt Tushar Gupta 9-1, 9-0, 9-0.

U-15 (Round II): Saurav Ghosal (Cal) bt Huzefa Khorakiwala 9-3, 9-2, 9-0; Varun Bhagat bt Jatin Gurnani 9-3, 10-8, 2-9, 9-5; Gautam Kalani bt Jay Bhagat 9-1, 9-2, 9-3; Karan Shah bt Brijesh Yadav 9-3, 9-3, 9-0; Sandeep Jangra bt Rushabh Vora 9-5, 9-6, 5-9, 8-10, 10-8; Sadiq Madraswala bt Sandeep Rathore 9-1, 9-1, 9-0; Aditya Manjrekar bt Dhiraj Nagpal 9-6, 9-6, 6-9, 9-0; Manek Mathur bt Manoj Kumar Dhoria 9-0, 9-3, 9-4; Arun Sharma bt Survesh Chauhan 9-3, 9-1, 5-9, 10-8; Hrishikesh Pendse bt Joran Diwan 9-1, 9-1, 9-1; Rohan Dalal bt Charudatta Wankhede 9-2, 9-0, 9-0; Ritesh Sharma bt Sidharth Samantaray (2nd seed) 9-4, 9-6, 2-9, 6-9, 9-4.

U-17 (Round I): Dhruv Dhawan bt Ambuj Sinha 9-3, 9-4, 9-3; Arjun Agnihotri (Deolali) bt Charudatta Wankhede 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Rajeev Mishra bt Avinash Bhatija 9-5, 10-8, 5-9, 9-6; Digvijay Ahlawat (Indore) bt Rohan Dalal 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Ritesh Sharma bt Ashok Singh Rathore 5-9, 9-7, 9-4, 9-4; Gautam Kakani bt Aditya Shatri 9-7, 9-6, 9-5; Jatin Gurnani bt Manoj Yadav 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Survesh Chauhan bt Sajjan Sukkal 9-0, 9-0, 9-0.

U-19 (Round I): Vishal Kapoor bt Animesh Kejriwal 9-0, 9-3, 9-4; Mihir Sheth bt BR Nambiar 9-1, 9-2, 9-1; Vaibhav Gupta bt Deepak Yadav 10-8, 9-3, 9-6; Abhimanyu Jain (Indore) bt Ravi Pandey 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Sahil Vora bt Sanjay Pawar 9-6, 9-3, 9-1; Anurag Gill bt Arjun Agnihotri (Deolali) 9-0, 9-3, 9-2; Digvijay Ahlawat (Indore) bt Avinash Bathija 9-5, 9-2, 9-1; Junaid Nathani bt Dhruv Dhawan 9-0, 1-0, 9-8.

Regent enter semis
Regent cc entered the semi-finals of the Cosmopolitan Cricket tournament when they beat New Hind by two wickets at the Dadkar Ground, Matunga on Saturday.

Brief scores: New Hind: 259 for 5 in 45 overs (Nitin Salvi 100 n.o., Sriram 40, Nupur Dodwarkar 33; Laxman Prabhu 3-36) lost to Regent CC: 260 for 8 in 40.4 overs (Arthur Gomes 71, Mahesh Yetkar 33, Ajit Sakre 50 n.o., Dinesh Sawant 30, Laxman Prabhu 32; Prasad Chavan 3-60).

Ashok Pandit excels MAHARASHTRA’s top shooter Ashok Pandit an Arjuna Awardee dominated both, Free Pistol event in the 17th Maharashtra State Shooting Championships which ended on Friday at the MRA Shooting Ranges, Worli Sea Face.

Results: Men’s Free Pistol: 1. Ashok Pandit 532/600, 2. Ronak Pandit 524/600, 3. Raj Khalid 512/600. Junior men’s Free Pistol: 1. Ronak Pandit 524 (New State Record), 2. Amol Renke 481, 3. Yogesh Sudke 479. Jr. men’s Air Pistol: 1. Ronak Pandit 556, 2. Amol Renke (553), 3. Bapu Vanjare (547). Jr.women’s Air Pistol: 1. Aparna Salunke 357, Charu Pragya 349, Ardhana Singh 345. Men’s St. Pistol: 1. Ashok Pandit (551), 2. Ronak Pandit (536), 3. Amol Chauhan (534). Jr men’s Air Rifle: 1. Yogesh Gadmale 582 (NSR), 2. Mangesh Mane (578), 3. Ganesh Gawli (574). Jr women’s Air Rifle: 1. Chitra Parasnis 372/400, 2. Kanchan Mishra 358, 3. Sayali Joshi 355. Women’s Air Pistol: 1. Vandana Narkar 374, 2. Harvinder Kaur 373, Monali Gore 331. Women’s Sports Pistol: 1. Charulata Somal 501, 2. Ashima Singh 421, 3. Charu pragya 419.

Kalina United champ
Kalina United beat Bad Boy’s Club (Parel) vie tiebreaker 2-1 in the final of the 2nd late Bros. Remedios Cup ronk football tournament organised by Don Bosco (Matunga) at their Quadrangle Basketball Court).Harish Varadharajan and Biju Ponnachan scored for the winners while Ashish netted for the losers.