November 21: Rachna Bajaj rallied to beat Maitreyee Korgaonkar 4-11 11-3 11-4 to advance to the midget girls final in the 11th Manora Badminton Academy tournament at Matunga Gymkhana today. Her opponent in the final, Soumya Padhye, also came through a tough quarter-final, against Rima Jhaveri. Soumya beat Rima 11-8 5-11 13-12, and brushed aside Sonal More 11-0 11-5 in the semi-final.Results (all semis)Boys (sub-juniors): Rohit Sadani bt Ajay Jayaram 15-4 15-7; Anish Kanekar bt Varun Govande 15-4 15-2; (Midgets): Ajay Jayaram bt Rohit Narke 15-5 15-5; Rohit Sadani bt Akshay Deolkar 15-4 15-1; (Minis): Harsh Jhaveri bt Mihir Kulkarni 15-1 15-0; P Suryamurthy bt Akhil Kamlakar 15-7 15-1.Girls (sub-juniors): Shivani Mayekar bt Amodi Borkar 11-2 11-4; Neha Wad bt Aarti Kamat 11-5 11-0; (Midgets): Rachna Bajaj bt Maitreyee Korgaonkar 4-11 11-3 11-4; Soumya Padhye bt Sonal More 11-0 11-5; (Minis): Vinita Ghate bt Dyna Sequeira 11-0 11-0; Kadambari Chheda bt Pragya Rathor 11-1 11-4.Young BoysscoreYoung Boys prevailed 3-2 over Godfather Sports Club in the Gulf Oil WIFA Division I football league at Cooperage, today. Farhan Ansari, Naeem Ansari and Souvaid Ansari scored in that order for Young Boys. Allan Jones and Robert Lobo netted for Godfather.Other results: Rallis 3 (Odilho Gomes, Franco Williams, Subodh Kuckian) bt Versova Village Boys 2 (Kiran F, Alankar Chake); United Boys Sahar 4 (Subhash Adilkar, Sanjay Kar, Apparao G, Albert Braganza) bt GMSC 0; D'Assisi SC 2 (Darryl Kinny, Noel Nunes) bt Catholic Gymkhana 1 (Russell Campos).
