MUMBAI, September 10: Leann Almeida of Mary Immaculate caused a major upset in the MSSA Colgate Palmolive Inter-Schools Chess Tournament when she defeated defending champion and top seed Yogita Yevle of Parle Tilak in the third round. She won her fourth round match to share the lead with four others -- Priyanka Vora, Niharika Thakkar, Michelle Fizardo and Swarali Thipsay.Yogita, who had participated in the Asian Sub-junior championships at Parle last year, blundered a full knight in equal position to hand the game to Leann who converted the advantage to win.
After four rounds in the under-14 boys section, two players, Niral Sanghvi (St. Josephs) and Akash Khalwadekar (St. Stanislaus) are jointly leading the field of 70 players with two points each.
Top seed Aditya Vora of Don Bosco was forced to a draw by Ali Khan of Cathedral and John Connon. Ali is in the second position with Varun Dattani, Kabir Malhotra and Aditya Vora.
RESULTS
Boys (under-16, second round): Vispy Pardiwala (2) btUmash Parulekar (1); Ameya Karandikar (2) bt Ninad Pandit (1); Nikhil Bhat (2) bt Rohan Nair (1); Aditya Kelkar (1) lost to Raj Parekh (2); N Shanoor (2) bt Milind Gide (1); S Ganesh (1) lost to A Siddharth (2); Craig Hiller (1.5) drew with Vismay Mehta (1.5); V Harshvardhan (2) bt Sachil Desai (1); Anand Daswani (2) bt Abhishek (1); Arun Figueiredo (2) bt Arpit Patel (1).
Boys (under-14, fourth round): Varun Dattani (3.5) drew with Kable Malhotra (3.5); Ambar Khalwadekar 93) lost to Akash Khalwadekar (4); Vishal Shah (3) lost to Niral Sanghvi (4); Mahesh Rewaskar (3.5) drew with Yashodhan Gogate (3.5); Gautam Malhotra (2.5) lost to Aditya Vora (3.5); H Khan (3.5) bt Rohit Tekwani (2); Sanju Malekal (2) lost to Sameer Thakkar (3); Jatin Ramanathan (3) bt Nilesh Yevle (2); Kunal Pitankar 92) lost to Akshay Bhor; Jigar Sanghvi (2) lost to A Ramachandran 93); Manish Raut (3) bt Omkar Joshi (2); Aditya Tendulkar (3) bt S Abbas (2); Vivek Singh (2) lost to Aditya Tumkhare (3); Sahil Mujumdar (3) bt Karankabra (2).
Girls (fourth round): Mugdha Variyar (3) lost to Priyanka Vora (4); Niharika Thakkar (4) bt Purva Variyar (3); Nashahita Deboo (3) lost to Michelle Fizardo (4); Swarali Thipsay (4) bt Sulekha Shaikh (3); Leann Almeida (4) bt Ruchita Lalmali (2.5); Yogita Yevle (3) lost to Pankhori Agarwal (2); Mugdha kadam (2) lost to Prajakta Yevle (3); Saloni balagi (3) bt Priyanka Punjabi (2); Shreveda Chitnis (2) lost to L Berndetta (2); Nikita Brahme (3) bt Vidya Nadar (2); Karishma Doshi (2) lost to Chandani Mehta (3).
Senior Division Chess
The Senior Division Chess Tournament, conducted by Mumbai Chess Association will be held at the Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Canteen, Sayani Road from September 14. It will be played on a nine-round Swiss League basis and 32 players from the senior division will be promoted to Mumbai Division. Entry fee is Rs 70 and the last date for submitting it is September 11.
Lajpatrai down Bhavan
Sanjay Pathak's brace for Lajpatrai College helped them todrub Bhavan's College in the Inter-Collegiate Football Tournament played at the University ground today.
In another match, Anthony Fernandes scored four in St Andrew's 9-2 win over Raheja College. Sanjay Fernandes had a brace while Arveen Thakur, Allen Fernandes and Jude Fernandes scored a goal apiece.
RESULTS
Second round: Vaze 2 (Johny Thottom, Sujesh Ravi Nair) bt Sant Gadge 1 (Nagesh Davna); Acahrya Marathe 2 (Abhijit Birje, Abhay Parkar) bt Sathaye 1 (Siddarth Tiwari); SK Somaiya 6 (Roshan Santake 3, Savio Dias 2, Rajesh) bt Borivli 0; NM Commerce 7 (Robin Almeida 3, Clive Periera, Anish Kanchan, Ashley Rege) bt SIES Commerce 0
Shankar scores
Jai Ambe defeated Larsen and Toubro 1-0 in the Mumbai District Football Association Division I match at the St Xavier's Ground, Parel today. Suresh Shankar scored the only goal.
Other results
Division II A: St Joseph's (Mira Road) 2 (Sunil Fernandes, Clive Cowan) bt Young Challengers 0; Division II B: Wonder Boys 1 (MaheshGumgaokar) PSS 1 (George Pereira).
Jai Hind, Don Bosco top
Don Bosco, Matunga and Jai Hind won the under-17 and under-19 team titles in the District Sports Council Multi Games Inter-Schools Table Tennis championships at the Don Bosco School, matunga here today.
Don Bosco defeated Bharatiya Vidyamandir, Dadar 3-2 while Jai Hind also triumphed by the same 3-2 margin over KC
Results (final)
Under-19 final: Jai Hind bt KC 3-2 (Gaurav Bhatia lost to Behzaad Mistry 21-17, 17-21, 16-21; Karan Kapur bt Arzan Khambatta 21-14, 21-16; Karan and Zulfikar Lala lost to Arzan and Hozefa Rangoonwala 19-21, 21-13, 11-21; Gaurav bt Arzan 21-11, 21-13; Zulfikar bt Hozefa 21-12, 20-22, 21-11).
Under-17: Don Bosco bt B Vidyamandir, Dadar 3-2 (Rushabh Patel lost to Kaustubh Pawar 21-16, 16-21, 16-21; Gaurav Doshi bt Vaibhav Rane 21-17, 21-11; Rushabh/Apoorva Shah lost to Vaibhav/Chetan Kadam 20-22, 9-21; Gaurav bt Kaustubh 21-14, 21-12; Apoorva bt Chetan 12-21, 21-14, 21-17.
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