In another close match, Fr Rodrigues prevailed by the skin of the teeth, defeating last year's semi-finalist St Andrew's 47-46. Later, it was NM Commerce's turn to pull the rabbit out of the hat. Trailing 19-21 at half-time, NM knocked out last year's runner-up Elphinstone 40-37.

Results

2nd round: Xavier's 67 (Alvin Fernandes 14, Esmero Figueiredo Jr 25) bt VES Tech 28 (B Prasad 10, S Thyagarajan 9) HT 24-21

3rd round: NM Commerce 40 (S Rajdeep 15, Arshit 9, Saket 8) bt Elphinstone 37 (Neil Monserrate 10, Rahul Singh 16) HT 19-21; HR Commerce 58 (Rishi D'Silva 20, Javed Ansari 17) bt Shahani Engg 56 (W Vipul 12, Pragnesh Bhanushali 21) in extra time HT 19-23 Full time 50-50; Fr Rodrigues 47 (B Paresh 14, Bharat Shetty 13, Shiv Mehra10) bt Andrew's 46 (Anand Colaco 20, Julius Noronha 10) HT 19-19; SIES Commerce 42 (Stanley Louis 12, Vijay 11) bt Sydenham 31 (Varun Anand 10, Saurav Nimai 10) HT 18-11.

Badminton selection trials: Selection trials for the Mumbai University team for the inter-university tournament, to be held at Pune from October 10, will be held at University Sports Pavilion at 9 a.m. on October 5.

The following players will report with their kit: Men: Bhushan Paithankar, Amogh Kulkarni, Mitesh Hazarnis (all Joshi Bedekar), Behzaad Devadhwala (HR), Jayesh Dhuri (Jhunjhunwala), Rohan Radhakrishnan (Podar), Harshad Tawde (Sydenham); Women: Sim Sim Salaria, Kajal Puri (both Mithibai); Pooja Kotwani (HR), Amita Shilwant (SIES).