Sandeep wins marathon battle to enter second round

Keen contests were witnessed in the boys under-15 category, with a couple of matches going the distance and few more stretching to four games. The pick of the day, however, was the match between Sandeep Jhangra and Nikhil Seth, which the former won in five games.

Results:

Boys under-11 (Round I):

Prashanth Kumar bt Owais Gore 9-0, 9-2, 9-0; Suraj Ravindram bt Dhruv Sanghvi 9-2, 9-1, 9-0; Anup Sharma bt Rahul D’Cunha 9-0, 9-0, 9-2; Pratik Selarka bt Harshit Sood 9-2, 9-3, 9-7.

U-15 (Round I): Varun Bhagat bt Premchand Rai 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Gautam Kalani bt Yohan Sachdev 9-3, 9-1, 9-4; Jay Bhagat bt Shailesh Mishra 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Sandeep Jhangra bt Nikhil Seth 9-3, 9-5, 7-9, 2-9, 9-1; Rushabh Vora bt Cyrus D Valil 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Sandeep Singh Rathore bt Nilesh Mishra 9-4, 9-1, 9-3; Aditya Manjrekar bt Rajeev Mishra 9-2, 9-4, 9-4; Manek Mathur bt Vikram Malhotra 9-4, 9-3, 9-0; Manoj Kumar Choria bt Ashok Singh Rathore 9-5, 10-8, 9-3; Rohan Kamalia bt Arjun Shah 7-9, 9-3, 8-10, 9-3, 9-3; Arun Sharma bt Nitin Chauhan 9-1, 9-1, 9-1; Laxman Joshi bt Vikas Semwal 9-2, 9-5, 9-7; Charudatta Wankhede bt Manoj Yadav 9-8, 8-9, 9-6, 9-6; Rohan Dalal bt Vrashank Yadav 9-0, 5-9, 9-3, 9-5; Ritesh Sharma bt Vikramsingh Ghadwal 9-0, 9-0, 9-0.

Open event (qualifying round): Capt. Tarun Nauni bt Vishal Bhammer 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Rohit More bt Winston D’Souza 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Mahesh Verma bt Animesh Kejriwal 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Capt. S Bisht bt Tarun Germa 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Sanjiv Sood bt Sameer Sanghvi 9-1, 9-3, 9-6; Ameya Joglekar bt Lt Subhal Nathan 9-4, 10-9, 6-9, 7-9, 9-6.

Ashok Pandit excels

Maharashtra’s top shooter Ashok Pandit — an Arjuna Awardee dominated both, Free Pistol and Air Pistol event in the 17th Maharashtra State Shooting Championships which ended on Friday at the MRA Shooting Ranges, Worli Sea Face.

Results: Men’s Free Pistol: 1. Ashok Pandit 532/600, 2. Ronak Pandit 524/600, 3. Raj Khalid 512/600.

Junior men’s Free Pistol: 1. Ronak Pandit 524 (New State Record), 2. Amol Renke 481, 3. Yogesh Sudke 479.

Jr. men’s Air Pistol: 1. Ronak Pandit 556, 2. Amol Renke (553), 3. Bapu Vanjare (547).

Jr.women’s Air Pistol: 1. Aparna Salunke 357, Charu Pragya 349, Ardhana Singh 345.

Men’s St. Pistol: 1. Ashok Pandit (551), 2. Ronak Pandit (536), 3. Amol Chauhan (534).

Jr men’s Air Rifle: 1. Yogesh Gadmale 582 (NSR), 2. Mangesh Mane (578), 3. Ganesh Gawli (574).

Jr women’s Air Rifle: 1. Chitra Parasnis 372/400, 2. Kanchan Mishra 358, 3. Sayali Joshi 355.

Women’s

Air Pistol:

1. Vandana Narkar 374, 2. Harvinder Kaur 373, Monali Gore 331.

Women’s Sports Pistol: 1. Charulata Somal 501, 2. Ashima Singh 421, 3. Charu pragya 419.

Regent enter semis

Regent CC entered the semi-finals of the Cosmopolitan Cricket tournament when they beat New Hind by two wickets at the Dadkar Ground, Matunga on Saturday.

Brief scores: New Hind:

259 for 5 in 45 overs (Nitin Salvi 100 n.o., Sriram 40, Nupur Dodwarkar 33; Laxman Prabhu 3-36) lost to Regent CC: 260 for 8 in 40.4 overs (Arthur Gomes 71, Mahesh Yetkar 33, Ajit Sakre 50 n.o., Dinesh Sawant 30, Laxman Prabhu 32; Prasad Chavan 3-60).

Solkar XI champs

Solkar XI won the RPG-Shatkar Trophy (u-16) cricket tournament when they registered a first innings victory over Rangnekar XI and acculumated 15 points from as five games here on Friday. They were followed by Umrigar XI (12), Gavaskar XI (11), Vishwanath XI (9), Borde XI and Rangnekar XI at seven points each.

Brief scores:

Solkar XI: 272-7 dec. and 67 for 2 drew Rangnekar XI:

215 (Shoaib Shaikh 65, Saurav Gaikwad 43, Raju Gaikwad 40; Vikrant Yelligatti 5-91).

Man of The Match: Vikrant Yelligatti.

Borde XI: 90 and 282 (Swapnil Patil 67, Prabodhan Kanse 64, Ameya Desai 60; Markesh Bhatt 4-95) drew

Vishwanath XI: 230-8 dec. (Chintan Shah 82 n.o., Sahil Kukreja 50; Joshil Sukhani 3-76)

MoM Markesh Bhatt.

Umrigar XI: 328-7 dec. and 157 for 1 (Ninad Borkar 82, Devraj Raut 39) drew

Gavaskar XI: 174 (Hiken Shah 121; Sanjay Mahadalkar 5-18, Anuj Sharma 3-74)

MoM: Hiken Shah.

RPG-Man of the tournament: Markesh Bhatt; Man of the tournament: Arif Sunsara; Best Bowlers: Markesh Bhatt.

National wins

National CC has entered the final of the Police Invitation Shield tournament. They defeated Mumbai Police by nine wickets in a semi-final encounter on Saturday.

Brief scores: Mumbai Police: 159 in 42.4 overs (Mangesh Sahastrabudhe 49; Musavir Khote 6-50) lost to National CC: 163 for 1 in 35 overs (Wasim Jaffer 111 n.o., Samir Apte 43). PJ Hindu Gymkhana: 312 for 9 (Abey Kuruvila 78, Ashok Kamalia 52, Vishal Tawade 40 n.o. Nitin Surve 39; Bharat Karnik 5-79).