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Journalism of Courage
MUMBAI, March 15: Tejaswi Shetty of Juhu Vile Parle Club broke the record for the 100 metres freestyle for girls under-15 on the second and final day of the 16th Otters Club Swimming Championship here today. She came home with a time of one minute, to improve on Sindoor Thakkar8217;s 1997 mark of 1:03.73 sec to bring her tally to three for the meet.
Four more records were also set up today, making it a total of nine for the championship.
It wasaltogether a good two days for Sindoor Thakkar of Otters, who swelled the number of golds she won in all to ten, figuring in two successful relay teams, two individual women8217;s titles and under-15 event on the final day.
Trebles were registered by V Vinod of Khar Gymkhana in the men8217;s event and Loknath Char, also of Khar Gymkhana, in the under-11 category.
The individual champions were: Men: V Vinod Khar Gym. Women: Sindoor Thakkar Otters. Boys under-7: Sagar Patil, under-9: Dhiren Shetty ASP, under-11: Loknath Char Khar Gym, under-13: Avinash Kriplani, under-15: Riyad Palia.
Girls under-7: Shreya Nadkarni BPCL, under-9: Prateeksha Ahuja Khar Gym, under-11: Anshuka Parwani Khar Gym, under-13: Bhavna Sharma BPCL and under-15: Sindoor Thakkar Otters.
C Rly in final
An all-round performance by Central Railway8217;s D Ketkar helped his side defeat Hongkong Bank at the Central Railway ground and enterthe Times Shield H8217; Division final.
Hongkong Bank batted first and were bowled out for 157 in 80.3 overs. Only the opening batsman S D8217;Cunha played a valiant knock of 65. T Bijur 23 and Neil D8217;Souza 19 were other main contributors. Three CR players could not even open their account. Ketkar8217;s fiery spell of six for 39 was ably supported by G Rathod who scalped two for 39. Y Gavad and MV Girish took a wicket each.
Chasing 157 to enter the first final, CR started cautiously but achieved the target with the loss of four wicket. M Waingankar and Mansoor Khan gave the desired start. Then it was No 3 batsmen S Chavan chance, who scored unbeaten 44. But it was Ketkar who supported him scored a brave 43 and helped his side to surpass the Hongkong Bank total.
Brief scores
Hongkong Bank 157 S D8217;Cunha 65; D Ketkar 6-39, G Rathod 2-33 lost to Central Railway 159-4 S Chavan 44 n.o., D Ketkar 43, Mansoor Khan 20; S Pednekar 2-45
Oberoi through
Anthony D8217;Souza8217;s solitary goal helped OberoiTowers get past Saki Village Boys 1-0 in the Bro Paulus Cup Football Tournament played at the St D8217;Assisi ground, Borivli. Both the teams failed to score in the first-half. D8217;Souza netted the winner for Oberoi in the 33 minute.
In another match today, Friends XI defeated RCF B8217; 8-7 in a tie-breaker. Both the teams failed to break the deadlock in the regular time.
Thadomal win
Ashwin Nandkumar8217;s goal in second half brought the winners trophy to Thadomal Sayani Engineering College after they beat Fr. CRCE in the final of inter-Engineering college football tournament played at the Priyadarshini Ground today. Ryan Cordeirian of Fr CRCE and Pinto Philips of NYSS won the best player and highest scorer prize.
Colaba YS victorious
Colaba Young Stars CYS defeated Rhino SC 6-5 via tie-breaker in the quarter-final of the Don Bosco Challenge Cup organised by Don Bosco Youth centre and played at the St Joseph Technical Institute, Kurla.
CYS drew first blood in the 20th minute through a penaltywhen Camilio Noranha handled the ball in the area. Santosh Rane scored from the penalty spot. Rhino SC scored the equaliser when Camilio Noranha scored five minute before time on a pass from Satyawahan Sawant.
In the other match, Kalina Rangers got past ACE XI 5-1. Neil D8217;Costa scored a brace for Kalina while Rupesh Sukhtankar, Praveen Gokhale and Valian D8217;Souza scored a goal each. Robert D8217;Costa scored the consolation goal for ACE XI. Kalina Rangers will meet Fr Agnel while Colaba YS will take on Don Bosco Academic, Matunga in the other semi-final.
Gaurav bags title
Gaurav Kumar defeated Ankit Doshi 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in a keenly contested boys8217; under-16 final of the Wodehouse Gymkhana Open Junior Tennis Tournament, today.
Other results all finals
Boys under-14: Rohan Gajjar bt Ankit Doshi; under-12: Keshavan Narasimhan bt C Akshay 6-0, 6-3; under-10: Gaurav Agarwal bt Kushal Mahale 7-5, 6-3.
Girls under-16: Megha Vakharia bt Sonal Phadke 7-5,2-6, 6-3;under-14: Megha Vakharia bt Isha Lakhani 6-3, 4-6, 6-0; under-12: Kartiki Bhat bt Tulsi Mehta 6-1, 6-0; under-10: Moneeza Siddiqui bt Khyati Shah 9-1.
