Wellingdon YMCA win opening tie

In the second match of the day, Shree Samarth Vyayam Mandir routed Mahatma Sports Club (Chembur), 42-18. Alhad M scored 30 points for the winners.

Results: Speedy Wellingdon YMCA 41 (Shaikh Rafique 14) bt TMG Thane (Yashwinder Singh 12, Nishal Kamath 12); Shree Samarth Vyayam Mandir 42 (Alhad M 30) bt Mahatma Sports Club 18 (Pyara Singh 9); St Joseph Bandra 31 (Ralph Gomes 12) bt New Bombay YMCA 10.

Rebels drub Challengers

0Sanjay Fernandes and Warren Carvalho struck twice each as Rebels snuffed out the challenge of Young Challengers in the Bombay Provincial championships at the Mahindra stadium today.

Fernandes opened in the 29th minute off a cross from Gilroy D’Mello to take the 1-0 score into half-time. Fernandes’ saw success again when, in the 56th minute, his goal-bound scoop was stopped by Challengers’ Sanjay Sharma with his hand. The resultant stroke was converted by Fernandes.

Team-mate Carvalho got into the act by tapping in Harold Rodricks’ cross from the right in the 50th minute and then capitalised on Karl Lopez’s spade work a minute before close.

Other results

Nobody SC bt Tata Electric 9-8 (sudden death); 2-2 (full-time)BHA league at Khalsa Gymkhana State Bank of India 4 (Vinod Futardo 3, Leonard D’Souza) drew with Union Bank (Rajesh Mulkari, MG Bhosle, Anil Raichurksr).

Parsees save relegation

All Parsees saved relegation by defeating Central Railway Parel Workshop (CRPW) 2-0 in their MDFA Harwood League match at St Xavier’s, Parel today.Hoshang Sinor converted a pass from Fareez Vasania in the 15th minute to put Paresees ahead and then Adil Irani completed the tally in the 59th minute.