Zorastrian Club beat cops

Nilesh Negi excels

Five goals by Nilesh Negi helped Don Bosco A, Matunga trounce sister concern Don Bosco, Borivli 6-0 in a boys under-12 league match of the Thumps-Up sponsored Inter-schools hockey tournament at the St Stanislaus School Ground, Bandra, yesterday. Rahul Surve completed the rout.

RESULTS: Don Bosco A, Matunga 6 (Nilesh Negi 5, Rahul Surve 1) bt Don Bosco, Borivli 0; St Anne’s, Orlem 5 (Ronald Rodrigues 2, Dylan Sequiera 1, Reuben D’Souza 1, Evan Johnson 1) bt St Joseph’s, Malad 1 (Sudeep Paralkar); St Theresa’s, Bandra 1 (Thojo Thomas) bt Don Bosco B, Matunga 0; Our Lady of Remedy, Kandivli 0 drew withSt Stanislaus B 0; St Blaise, Amboli 1 (Joshua Fernandes 1) bt St Andrew’s B 0; St Stanislaus A 3 (Clifford Remedios 1, Shane Vinshipilly 1, Rohan Thomas 1) bt Bombay Scottish 0; St Andrew’s A 3 (Naushad Merchant 2, Nayeem Jagani 1) bt Holy Family, Andheri).

Hadkar win

Hadkar XI A won the Dadasaheb Rege & Manikrao Lotukar Trophy third round Cricket tournament organised by Dadar Parsee Zorastrian yesterday. Hadkar beat Achrekar XI by 11 runs to lift the trophy.

Brief scores: Hadkar XI A 219 (Mandhar Thakur 4-19, Jude Singh 4-59) bt Achrekar XI 186 (Praful Dhule 72).

Willingdon SC triumph

Though not crowned with success, Jindal Group made a fairly encouraging debut at the 25th Motilal Sanghi Memorial Inter-Club Squash Tournament. They went down 4-5 to Willingdon Sports Club, last evening.

RESULTS: Willingdon bt Jindal Group, Vasind 5-4: (Raju Kothare bt Ashwin Bhosale 9-7, 9-6, 9-3; Prakash Yelve lost to Rajesh Verma 6-9, 3-9, 6-9; S Thakkar bt Rajiv Gupta 9-3,9-2, 9-5; Kevic Setalwad conceded w.o. to Vijay Jangra; Chetan Jaikishen bt Ashish Bangra 9-0, 9-3, 9-7; Jahangir Surti bt Deepak Yadav 9-5, 9-6, 7-9, 9-7; Sameer Somaya lost to Sunil Verma 0-9, 1-9, 0-9; Anuj Bhagwati bt Nitin Bhosale 9-3, 9-5, 9-7; Darab Khan lost to Sanjay Goel 7-9, 6-9, 7-9.

Cricket Club of India bt Navi Mumbai Sports Association, Vashi 6-3: (D Surti bt Rajesh Sonawane 9-5, 9-5, 9-5; Jahangir Pandole conceded w.o. to Vineet Bhatia; R Arora bt Sandeep Mirani 9-3, 9-2, 9-4; S Rewari bt Leon Emmanuel 9-2, 9-1, 9-6; A T More bt Hari Shenava 4-9, 9-1, 9-3, 9-2; S Mashruwala bt Rajeev Verghese 9-4, 9-4, 9-4; Deepak conceded w.o. to Vasant Bhadra; Rajesh Jalan conceded w.o. to Inderpal Singh; N Siudmoasa bt Supreet Singh 9-0, 9-2, 9-4.

Dadar XI victorious

A brace by Denzil Menzes helped the Dadar XI to defeat Indian Airlines 5-2 in a Division II match of the Western India Football Association here at the Cooperage Ground. Dilip Adsille, John Fernandes and Chinmay Chibomodiwere the other scorers for the Dadar team while Ravi Shankar and Subu PV scored for the losers.

Etambe, Anupama top

Nagsen Etambe and Anupama Kedar, both of Bank of India, bagged a title-treble each in the Mumbai District Carrom Association-conducted Districts Championships. Etambe defeated Narsing Rao Sakari (BSES) 25-21, 25-11 in the open singles final.

PM Bath champs

Nitin Malhotra scored a brace in PM Bath’s 2-0 victory over MGM Bath in the under-20 final of 27th YMCA Water Polo championships at the Bombay Central YMCA Agripada pool.

Tendulkar to lead

Former Indian captain Sachin Tendulkar would lead reigning Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai against the visiting Australians in a three-day tour opener at the Brabourne Stadium here from February 24 to 26.

The three-day match will also be the last appearance for former Test star Sanjay Manjrekar who has already announced his retirement from first class cricket.

Team: Sachin Tendulkar (Capt), Sanjay Manjrekar, AmolMuzumdar, Vinod Kambli, Sulakshan Kulkarni, Abey Kuruvilla, Paras Mhambray, Rajesh Pawar, Nilesh Kulkarni, Atul Ranade, Amit Pagnis, Kiran Pawar, Mandar Phadke, Santosh Saxena and Rajesh Sutar.