SEPT 1: Central Railway Parel Workshop strengthened their chances of qualifying for the eight-team play-off after a goalless draw with ONGC in the Mumbai District Football Association's Harwood League match at the St Xavier's Ground, Parel today.MLWB winMaharashtra Labour Welfare Board, Gundavli (Andheri) won the team championships in the Santacruz Mahila Mandal-organised Mumbai District Open sub-junior and junior karate-do championship at the Community Centre Hall, Besant Road on Sunday.ResultsTeam: Maharashtra Labour Welfare Board, Gundavli (Andheri) with 17 points. Runner-up: Swastik League Gymnasium, SVP Road.Boys: Praffuln Rasal, Prathamesh Gawde, Ruturaj Jejurkar, Sushant Khandagale, Rajendra Desai, Nishant Desai, Anil Shinde, Jigar Nandu, Amol Shirke, Amit Saroj, Sandeep Jawle, Vaibhav Hatkar, Vivek Rajivan, Sudeep Pawar, Aslam Khan, Keshav Raut.Girls: Pooja Kanade, Rucha Desai, Amruta Shetty, Janaki Bagwe, Manali Jejurkar, Shanta Shetye,Anushree Shrinivasan, Neha Jadhav, Priya Sharma.Best fighter: Boy: Keshav Raut (Swastik Legue Gymnasium). Girl: Amruta Shetty (Maharashtra Kamgar Kalyan Kendra, Worli).Stick Demonstration: 1 Gaurav Dalvi, 2 Arjurvan Roshan.State topsMaharashtra totalled 13 medals including seven gold, four silver and two bronze in the All India Karate Training Camp and Championships held in Kullu (Himanchal Pradesh) between August 21-25.HP was second with seven (3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze) and Haryana finished third with 11 (2+3+4).SMRK, Gandhi champsITW (Mumbai) lost in the team's finals of both badminton and table tennis in the SNDT Inter-collegiate tournament held on August 30-31 at the University Sports Pavilion.SMRK (Nasik) defeated ITW 2-0 in the badminton final while NC Gandhi (Bhavnagar) won the TT final.Results Badminton (individual final): Vrushali Sonawane (SMRK, Nasik) bt Reema Seth (M Nanavati) 11-6, 11-2. Third place:Kanchan Apte (ITW, Mumbai) bt Monu Verghese (LT Nursing) 11-9, 9-11, 11-9.Team: SMRK (Nasik) bt ITW (Mumbai) 2-0 (Vrushali Sonawane bt Sandhya S 11-1, 11-0, Vrushali S/Sheetal Shekdar bt Kanchan Apte/Leena Dhere 15-4, 15-13. Third place: Pune SC bt LT Nursing 2-0.Table TennisIndividual (final): Kaushika Solanki (NC Gandhi, Bhavnagar) bt Mital Chavan (Bhavnagar) 21-8, 21-6. Third place: Sujata Jagdale (Arts, Churchgate) bt Shakila Shaikh (M Nanavati) 21-8, 21-6.Team: NC Gandhi (Bhavnagar) bt ITW (Mumbai) 3-0 (Kaushika S bt Neera Jain 21-5, 21-17; Mital Chavan bt Mallika Adarkar 21-13, 18-21, 21-12; Kaushika/Mital bt Neera/Mallika 13-21, 21-6, 21-17. Third place: Arts (Churchgate) bt LT Nursing 3-0.
