Vishal pips Hitesh to clinch billiards crown
MUMBAI: Vishal Madan of Chembur Gymkhana pulled off a 4-3 win over Hindu Gymkhana’s Hitesh Kotwani to clinch the billiards title in the BSAM Maharashtra State Senior Snooker & Billiards Selection Championship at the Bombay Gymkhana. Madan ascended as Maharashtra’s No 1 billiards exponent after his 89-150, 150-143, 141-150, 150148, 114-150, 150-97, 150-118 win on Sunday.
OTHER RESULTS timate round of the girls and boys’ under-14 category respectively in the Mahavir Prasad Morarka Memorial Maharashtra Schools Chess Championship 2018 at the Nehru Centre, Worli here on Sund.
LEADING RESULTS
Girls’ under-14: Sailee Desai 4.5 lost to Parnavi Rane 6.5; Sanskruti Sawant 5 lost to Saniya Tadavi 6; Maitreyee
Mane 3.5 lost to Kiyarra Khaturia 6. Boys’ under-14: Rishi Kadam 7.5 bt Yash Gogate 4.5; Rachit Lund 7 drew with Ayush Mayekar 5.
VIJAY STUNS RANJIT
Vijay Kumar outplayed Ranjit Singh 11-4, 11-3, 11-3 to make the men’s final of the 7th JSW-ALL India Sunil Verma Memorial Squash Championship. Women’s: Urvashi Joshi bt Aakanksha Rao 11-6, 11-3, 11-3; Sanika Choudhary bt Taanaya Parekh 11-8, 11-5, 11-5.
Boys’ under-19: Rahul Baitha bt Tejas Chawla 5-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-7, 11-3; Suraj Chand bt Jaideep Singh Sethi 11-3,
11-8, 11-3.
Under-15: Om Semwal bt Uday Pandey 11-5, 11-4, 11-6; Rutva Samant bt Yuvraj Wadhwani 12-10, 11-7, 12-10; Jeh Pandole bt Aaryan Agarwal 11-3, 11-4, 11-3; Aaryaman Jaising Sunny Yadav 11-9, 12-10, 9-11, 11-7; Under-13: Arihant Ks bt Aditya Chandani 11-8, 7-11, 12-10, 11-4; Siddhant Rewari bt Ayaan Vaziralli 11-8, 7-11, 11-9, 11-7.
Girls’ under-15: Aasya Patel bt Tagyaa Prekh 11-5, 12-10, 11-7; Pooja Aarthi R bt Sanya Jaggi 11-6, 11-7, 11-6; Girls’ under-13: Khushboo bt Kriyaa J
11-8, 11-7, 11-4; Aleya Masant bt Niya Jain 11-1, 11-1, 11-0; Under-11: Anahat Singh bt Pia Singh 11-3, 11-3, 11-2; Aelina w/o Diva Shah; Samairah Raj Bhandare bt Vyomika Khandelwal 11-5, 9-11,
11-4, 11-2. Dadar Union 286 in 61.3 overs (Yashasvi Jaiswal 87, Sairaj Patil 85, Akshay Jambhekar 4/85, Parikshit Valsangkar 3/79) lost to New Hind SC 287/4 in 60.4 overs (Siddhant Adhatrao 108, Sachin Yadav 102*, Siddharth Raut 3/55) by 6 wkts.
Dr DY Patil SA 419/9 in 70 overs (Shashank Singh 133, Yogesh Takawale 106*, Siddharth Chitnis 48, Subramaniam D 42, Sahil Phegade 5/82) bt Parel Sporting Club 289/8 in 70 overs (Pranav Pawar 116, Iqbal Abdullah 4/119, Pravin Tambe 3/52) by 130 runs.
PJ Hindu Gymkhana 253 in 65 overs (Prathamesh Pawar 53, Pratik Desai 47, Vinit Dhulap 3/69) lost to MIG BRIEF SCORES
Sporting CC Thane 127 (Herambh Karbhari 38, Nirek Gawand 6/30) & 62/9 (Aarush Patankar 5/24) bt Kurla SC 112 (Siddhant Velankar 4/30, Aditya Parab 3/29) on first innings lead.
Sainath SC 141 (Lavesh Medhankar 3/32, Ayush Vartak 3/40) lost to Payyade SC 284/8 (Rudra Tank 102*, Meet Mayekar 82, Ayush Vartak 51; Aryan Mandrekar 3/65) on first innings lead.