mumbai, Nov 17: Top seed Vaibhav Saxena of Fr Agnel was held to a draw by Nikhil Kamat of IES, Dadar, in the open boys' category of the Bournvita Inter-School chess tournament at the Vile Parle Prabodhankar Thackeray Krida Sankul, today.Results of fourth-round of top five boards:Open boys: Nikhil Kamath (3.5) drew with Vaibhav Saxena (3.5); Amar Kamat (3.5) drew with Ninad Puranik (3.5); Niral Sanghvi (3.5) drew with Karthik Vishwanathan (3.5); Sameer Thakkar (3.5) drew with Aditya Vora (3.5); Aniruddha Unni (3.5) drew with Devendra Sathe (3.5). Boys under-10: Rohil Bhat (4) bt Varun Dattani (3); Meghan Gupte (3.5) drew with Siddharth Kotian (3.5); Akshat Kundalia (3) lost to Anuj Moralwar (4); Ashwin Ganapathy (3) lost to Siddharth Nambiar (4); Parth Agarwal (3) lost to Aakarsh Rai (4).Open girls: Leann Almeida (3.5) drew with Niharika Thakkar (3.5); Mrudula Nambiar (3.5) drew with Purva Variyar (3.5); Tanvi Thakur (3.5) bt Priyanka Punjabi (3); Rinkurani Yadav (3.5) bt AnjuraniYadav (2.5); Swarali Thipsay (2) lost to Mugdha Variyar (3.5).Girls under-10: Ketki Kulkarni (4) bt Sayali Phadke (3); Gayatri Velu (3) lost to Trichi Chawla (4); Sai Ghate (3) lost to Monica Maskeri (4); Kavya Pai (2.5) lost to Tania Fernandez (3); Nishita Balgi (3) bt Jigna Gala (2.5).Utarid stuns AwateJM Utarid (Elo 2123) defeated FM Avinash Awate (Elo 2263) in 34 moves to emerge sole leader after the fourth-round of the KD Publicity Open rating chess tournament at the Andheri Sports Complex, today.Important results: Fourth-round: Shashikant Kutwal (3.5) drew with Anup Deshmukh (3.5); JM Utarid (4) bt Avinash Awate (3); V Makwana (3.5) bt Prasad Deshmukh (2); Rashmin Pulekar (3) bt Prasad Ghate (2.5); VN Ghate (3) bt Shirshkumar (2); Akash Khalwadekar (3) bt Dinesh Bhandarkar (2); Deepak Tamhane (3) bt Y Disen Singh (2); V Pujara (2.5) drew with A Subramaniam (2.5); P Pande (3) bt AN Iyer (2); S Pitale (3) bt Inacio Rodrigues (2).Xavier's triumphST Xavier'sBoys Academy beat St Joseph's by eight runs in the first-round of the MSSA-Colgate Inter-School Giles Shield (45 overs) cricket tournament.Brief scores (first-round): St Xavier's Boys Academy 197-9 (K Jhaveri 56, Shishir Khambete 59; Mahesh Jain 5-44) bt St Joseph's, Vikhroli 191 (Shahzad Mumkekar 56; Omkar Vishwarao 3-39, Hitesh B 4-24). IES Modern English 150 (Ananya Belsare 3-33, Devendra Mansoor 3-51) bt St Sebastian Goan, Dabul 134 (Richin Patil 3-25, Sagar Wagal 3-17). St Anthony's, Vakola 135 (Yogesh Yadav 4-6) lost to Barretto 136-6 (Amey Salvi 3-29). St Teresa's, Bandra 141 (Siddharth Varma 5-18) lost to Bombay Scottish, Mahim 144-3 (Salil Mahajan 53 n.o.). Vrajlal Parekh 148 (Prateik Smit 5-31) lost to Arya Vidya Mandir, Dahisar 149-6 (Ravi Bansode 3-40). Learners Academy 78 (Mithil Parab 6-32) lost to St Mary's, Mira Road 79-5 (Neeraj Kalwani 3-29). Anjuman-I-Islam Allana 53 (Gajendra Thakur 5-20, Dharmesh Barai 3-12) lost to Sitaram Prakash 54-8 (Sufyan Rehmani 3-12, Junned Sayyed3-18).Amol, Wasim shineAMOL Bhalekar (4-44) and Wasim Sayed (3-30) restricted Ramchandra XI to 253 against Tukaram Surve XI in the under-22 Omtex Trophy cricket tournament at the Ramesh Dadkar ground, Matunga (E).Brief scores: Ramchandran XI 253 (Rahul Bagade 63, P Jadhav 47, Premjit Tawade 37; Amol Bhalekar 4-44, Wasim Sayed 3-30) vs Tukaram Surve XI 1 for no loss. Appa Babrekar XI 272 (Sandeep Kambli 37, Salil Vaidya 55, Ravikant Chavan 59; Amjad Khan 3-39) vs M Amladi XI.RCF down SathayeRashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers (RCF) beat Sathaye Boys 25-17, 25-8 in the Mumbai City District volleyball championship at MbPT Sports Club ground. Mumbai Police defeated YMCA 25-17, 25-16.Acharya College winHosts Acharya rallied from a half-time deficit to defeat Eagles 29-24 in the Acharya College Under-22 Winter Basketball League at Chembur.Results: Acharya 29 (Niraj Mahadik 7, Vitus Patel 6, Raphael Corriea 6) bt Eagles 24 (Meldon Lobo 18, Wendol 8) HT 10-12; Somaiya85 (Ralph Gomes 18, Pankaj Rane 8, Kayron Gomes 20, Mark Fernandes 21, Vishal Narwekar 8) bt Chembur YMCA 41 (Ram Kumar 18, Sheldon Buthello 10, Jude A 6) HT 36-22.Quarter-finalists spottedQuarter-Finalists have been spotted in the boys and girls sections of the 26th Mini National basketball Championships at Anandpur Sahib, according to information available here. In the boys, TN, Manipur, Rajasthan, AP, Pondicherry and Punjab have made the last eight while MP, Maharashtra, Pondicherry, Kerala, AP and Punjab entered quarters.CR pip SBICentral Railway accounted for old rivals State Bank of India 69-62 in a senior division match of the United Phosphorus Ltd weekend basketball league at Nagpada Court on Sunday.Results: Senior Div: Income-Tax 77 (Jasbir Singh 18, Vijay Neygandhi 16, Krishna Kumar 13, Steven Rodrigues 12) bt Ghatkopar YMCA 57 (Ashish Lad 17, Francis Pereira 13, Ramesh Iyer 10) HT 37-27. Ghatkopar YMCA 69 (Francis Pereira 34, Ashish Lad 10) bt Navi Mumbai YMCA 48(Gurvinder Singh 29) HT 36-20.State Bank 73 (Siraj Ahmed 27, Shibu George 15, Aijaz Khan 13) bt Central YMCA 68 (Donald D'Sa 18, Swapnil 18, Ivan Fernandes 11) HT 39-34. Central Railway 69 (Fazil Shaikh 27, Shahzad Shaikh 12, Mansoor Shaikh 10) bt TMG 46 (Shulmith Muthvala 25, Nischal K 10) HT 33-24. Central Railway 77 (Biju Mathew 25, Mansoor Shaikh 15, Shahzad Shaikh 13, Fazil Shaikh 12) bt State Bank 62 (Aijaz Khan 15, Swaminathan 14, Siraj Ahmed 10) HT 40-32.First Div: Somaiya SC 62 (Sachin More 15, Sunil Pereira 12) bt Chembur YMCA 8 HT 36-4.Junior boys (U-18): Flying Apostles 74 (Jitesh Monteiro 30) bt Ghatkopar YMCA Blues 26 (Vivek Shetty 21) HT 39-12. Somaiya SC 100 (Nilesh Jadhav 29, Pankaj Rane 24, Mark Fernandes 20, Ralph Gomes 18) bt Agradneya 46 (K Chetan 23) HT 48-21. Xavier's 81 (Placid Fernandes 27, Roger Fernandes 23, Shun Li 16) bt Agradneya 34 (Rohit Bhide 16) HT 27-15. Indian Gymkhana 49 (Sachin Rao 19, Rohan Kumar 15, S Prasad 11) bt School of Basketball 43 (Lino Gracias 18,Chinmay Bhandarkar 13) HT 16-18Chembur YMCA Blues 49 (S Ramkumar 27) bt Ghatkopar YMCA 48 (Vivek Shetty 28, Pradeep Godse 10) HT 22-22.
