Shetye, Niddodi claim Inter-collegiate titles

Results: Men’s Singles: Sushant Niddodi (Mithibai) bt Sanket Shetty (HR Commerce) 15-10, 18-15; Third place: Harshad Tawde (Syndenham) bt Kunal Vaswani (Sydenham) 15-9,15-9.

Men’s (Third Place): HR Commerce bt Mithibai 3-2 (Bezad Devadvala bt Sushant Niddedi 15-3,8-16,19-17; Prashant lost to Gautam Potdar 9-15 consider; Aftab and Prashant lost to Gautam and Sushant 8-15, 16-18; Sanket Shetty bt Kunal A, 15-3, 15-5, Sanket and Bezad bt Kunal and Shridhar 15-5 15-5. Team: Syndenham bt Joshi Bedekar 3-2 (Kunal Vaswani lost to Among Kulkarni 13-18, 14-17; Harshad Tawde bt Lukish Samane 8-15,15-3,15-2; Aditya Khansaheb and Kunal Vaswani lost to Lukish Samane and Among Kulkarni 15-6, 1-15,14-7; Aditya Khan saheb bt Amish Sule 18.17, conceed; Harshad Tawde and Mithun Sacheti and Amrish Sule and Deepak M 15-4, 15-8

Women’s Singles: Sampada Shetye (Joshi Bedekar) bt Shalaka Damle (Ruia) 11-4, 8-11, 11-6, Third Place: Geetanjali Katrak (Ruia) bt Uma Mahadhavan (RA Podar) 11-5,11-8.

Team: Ruia bt Joshi Bedekar 2-1 (Geetanjali Katrak lost to Sampade Shetye 0-11,0-11; Shalaka Damle bt Deepa Bhonde 11-0,11-0; Geetanjali and Shalaka bt. Sampda and Deepa 15-5, 15-6); Third place: RA Podar walk over Mithibai.

KAREN SUPREME: Karen F of Mithibai College reigned supreme in the under-56 Kgs and open category of the recently concluded Inter-Collegiate Judo Competition at the Tolani College of Commerce.

RESULTS: Boys below-45 kgs: Sundeep Mishra, Santosh Gawade, Chetan Jain (All MVLP); Below-50 kgs: Rohit Khot (Antonia), Sunil Jadhav (Mithibai), Anupam Das (AP); Below-55 kgs: Savio Barnes (Mithibai), Gurunath D (Lala Lajpatrai), Vinayak Pandit(Ruparel); Below-60 kgs: Shirin Poojari (Mithibai), Malkom Faramji (National), Abhimanyu Rishi (Mithibai); Girls below-45 kgs: Aparna C (Raghlivanshi), Jyoti Patel (Mithibai), Vaishal Shirke (MVLU); Below-56 kgs: Karen F (Mithibai), Kashmira B (Tolani); Girls open: Karen F (Mithibai), Kashmira B (Tolani), Aparna C (Raghuvanshi)

SHIBU, ARNIKA TO LEAD: Thane cager Shibu George and Satara’s junior international Arnika Gujar will lead the Maharashtra men’s and women’s teams in the 48th Senior National Basketball Championship to be held at Ludhiana from January 28 till February 4.

The squad: Men: Shibu George (Thane, capt.), Clarence Menezes, Mahesh Naidu (all Thane), Pankaj Deshmukh, Shrihari Garge, Satish Warriar, Madish Raut (all Nagpur), Vijay Naygandhi, Sunil Pereira (Mumbai north), Stephen Rodrigues (Mumbai central), Vishal Bagi (Ahmednagar) and Shabbir Khan (Mumbai south east). Coaches: M Venkatesh and Dr Edwin Moses Women: Arnika Gujar (Capt.), Mithila Gujar, Pradnya Mane, Prachi Velankar (all Satara), Sonal Kavde, Archana Muley, Nilambari Kane (all Nagpur), Sayali Umbranikar, Usha Kadam, Gopika Kachare (all Pune), Blessy Thomas (Mumbai south east) and Neeta Naik (Nashik). Coach: Mukund Dhus.

WENDEN VICTORIOUS: Wenden Institute (Central Railway) defeated G M Breweries via tie-breaker 2-1 in the final of the Fair Play trophy town tournament organised by Bombay Football Referees Association played at the St Xavier’s ground, Parel. Srikant Nayak and Padam Bhadur scored for the winners while Camilo Noronha scored the solitary goal for GM Breweries.Other results Quarter-Finals: GMB bt Friends 3-2, Don Bosco Youth Centre 2 (Shankar Thakur 2) bt MMPK 0; Wenden Inst 1 (Abhishek Yadav) bt Rhino 0; MAM 1 (Navneet Kharde) bt Hotel Centaur 0; GM Breweries 1 (Alex Ambrose) bt Don Bosco Youth Centre 0; Wenden Inst (Abhishek Yadav 2, Padam Bahdur 1) bt MAM 3-0. (Third Place): Don Bosco Youth Centre 1 (Suresh hinkate) bt MAM 0.