February 2: Post office Recreation Club (PORC) defeated Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) 3-2 in an inter-office table tennis league match conducted by the Bombay District Table Tennis Association at the University Pavilion today.Lata Topale clinched the final singles match after the two teams were tied 2-2 to take PORC through. Earlier, PORC took the first lead which was equalised by Vrinda B Shinde for IOC. The doubles duo of IOC gave them the lead for the first and only time, taking the team 2-1 up.
But Smita Kulkarni first and Lata later, won their singles matches to edge their rivals out.
Results
Women's Division II: Punjab National Bank bt BEST 3-0 (Vaidehi Patil bt Geetanjali Dalvi 21-9, 21-8; Merle D'Souza bt Sheetal Shukla 21-6, 21-10; Vaidehi Patil and Merle D'Souza bt Sheela P Thakurdesai 21-8, 21-15).
Post Office Recreation Club bt Indian Oil Corporation 3-2 (Smita Kulkarni br Pratibha Sawant 21-17, 21-17; Lata Topale lost to Vrinda B Shinde 20-22, 21-12, 19-21; Smita Kulkarniand Lata Topale lost to Vrinda Sawant and Pratibha Shinde 12-21, 10-21; Smita Kulkarni bt Vrinda Shinde 21-8, 21-5; Lata Topale bt Pratibha Sawant 21-8, 21-17).
RCF held
RCF B were held to a goalless draw by Times of India in a Division II a match of a Western India Football Association league match at the Cooperage today.
In other matches, St Anthony failed to turn up against Ryan Augustine in a Division II E match while Ralf SC did the same against IDBI (III C).
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