Fatima girls on course

Mumbai, Dec 5: Defending champions Fatima entered the final of the junior girls event in the XII Bombay YMCA open basketball tournament, s...

Mumbai, Dec 5: Defending champions Fatima entered the final of the junior girls event in the XII Bombay YMCA open basketball tournament, sponsored by Kanara Engineering, at Ghatkopar YMCA last evening. Fatima accounted for Xavier’s 47-20 to set up a final clash with Agradneya Vyayamshala.

In a men’s match, Chembur YMCA withstood a late surge by TMG to enter the quarter-finals.

Results
Men: Chembur YMCA 57 (Anish Sanghvi 13, Jude Alemao 13, Santosh Rao 11) bt TMG 50 (A Chetan 17, Ishvinder Singh 13, K Nischal 13) HT 36-18.Women (league): Agradneya 54 (Manisha Khaprekar 10, Gauri Abhyankar 14) bt Fr Agnel 22 (Neha 6) HT 34-12.
Junior girls (semis): Fatima 47 (Ami Momaya 12, Sushma Holmagi 11, Anita Krishnan 10, Flavia D’Souza 8) bt Xavier’s 20 (Gwyneth Saldanha 7, Sonia Sequeira 8) HT 21-9.

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Big win for Assisi
St Francis D’Assisi defeated St Lawrence, Kandivli 64-1 in the MSSA-Colgate inter-school basketball tournament at Azad Maidan today. In another match, Don Bosco Matunga Bdrubbed St Sebastian Goan B 104-1.
Results: Don Bosco, Matunga B 104 (Jitendra Sawant 40, Benny Chakkan 12, James Shah 10, Yoganand Korgaonkar 10) bt St Sebastian Goan B 1 HT 44-1; D’Assisi 64 (Dhaval Thakkar 12, Mariano Fichardo 10, Kedar Sharma 8) bt St Lawrence 1 HT 36-0.

Mahesh, Gayatri to lead
Mahesh Nagane (Sangli) and Gayatri Manolikar (Thane) will lead the state squads in the 16th Youth Nationals basketball championship, at Chittorgarh from December 8-13. The team leaves tomorrow.
The Teams: Boys: Mahesh Nagane, Anil Sankpal (Sangli), Manoj Rakshak, Ravi Kumar, Ashay Shastri (Nagpur), Urjit Patil, Vinayak Kashid (Kolhapur), Suleman Patel (Mumbai S-E), Anap Shardul (Thane), Sadat Kharadi (Solapur), Sachin Rao (Mum Central), Shail Vora (Mum North), Coach: Zubair Shaikh (Solapur). Girls: Gayatri Manolikar, Neha Vaidya, Rucha Marathe, Kirti Pandit (Thane), Amrita Rane, Shama Joshi, Sweta Shitole (Pune), Suchitra Deshmukh, Dhanashree Nagre, Kshitij Mahadik (Satara), SharddhaKothari, Mrunmayee Chincholkar (Nagpur); Coach: Ajit Khaladkar (Thane).