Saran, batting at No. 3, contributed a well-struck 82 with the help of 13 fours in his side's total of 185. He then turned his arm over to capture seven Gokalibai wickets for 25 runs. Gokalibai were bowled out for 101.

Rahul Bajaj's 3-19 and 55 runs was in vain as his team, Sacred Heart, lost to Hindi Vidya Bhavan by 23 runs at Azad maidan.

BRIEF SCORES:

Hindi Vidya Bhavan

125 (Kaushal Thakur 33; Pranav Desai 3-21, Faroukh Shaikh 4-14, Rahul Bajaj 3-19) bt Sacred Heart

102 (Rahul Bajaj 55; Sameer Narang 4-17, Dilip Choudhary 5-21).

Amrut Education

185 (Harvinder Saran 82, Shoeb Mulla 31; Nilesh Panchal 4-60) bt Gokalibai

101 (Nilesh Panchal 47; Arif Khan 3-19, Harvinder Saran 7-25).

S V Patel, Kandivli,

223 for 6 (Anup Ved 57, KaranJoshi 40, Ronak Gandhi 53; J Mahadavan 3-73) bt SIWS

73 (Ronak Gandhi 3-25, Karan Joshi 5-10).

Arya Vidya Mandir

116 (Pahwa Dhruv 50, Avnish Prasad 3-8, Kabir Malhotra 4-7) bt Cathedral & John Connon

90 (Hitesh Sharma 4-30).

R N Bhatt

116 (Husen Kapadia 36; Akshay Agarwal 5-30, Rajat Jain 3-13) lost to G D Somani

117-9 (Anand Shah 5-47, Viral Parekh 3-22).

St Joseph's, Malad

211 (Varon Sharma 68, Jitendra Mody 40, Ajay Shetty 30; Sachin Naik 4-49) bt Holy Angels, Mulund,

53 (Tushar Khakhar 6-19, Naman Karia 3-7).

Nutan Vidya Mandir, Malad,

149 (Dhaval Cheda 36; Kapil Choudhary 4-45; Eeshan Mithbavkar 3-24)) lost to Seth C D Barfiwala

153 (Anand Javkar 38, Kapil Choudhary 37 n.o.; Jayesh Khatri 3-30).

Jasudben M L, Khar,

182 (Shravan Chhabria 48, Bharat Rawail 35, Nimesh Parmar 30; Sufiyan Rehmani 6-36) bt Anjuman-I-Islam, Fort,

110 (Abdul Khan 33; Shravan Chhabria 4-25, Rishi Vijan 4-15).

Clifford 'tricks

Ahat-trick by Clifford Remedious was the highlight of St Stanislaus B's Bandra, 6-1 victory over Sacred Heart in the first-round of the MSSA-Colgate Jr Agan Khan (under-16) hockey tournament at the St Andrew's ground, Bandra, today.

Cornel Aguiar (2) and Zaid Attawala were the other scorers for Stanislaus. Julian Franco netted Sacred Heart's consolation goal.

Goalless draw

Best and Central Railway Workshop, Matunga, were concerned in a goalless draw in Pool A of the BHA-conducted Third Division hockey league, sponsored by Punjab National Bank, at the Naigaum Police ground, today

Both the teams played positive hockey but both failed to score easy chances. BEST dominated in the first-half, while the Matunga team were seen in better light in the second session.

St Andrew's impress

St Andrew's boys scored an impressive 68-20 (ht: 30-12) triumph over Burhani in the Inter-Junior Collegiate basketball tournament at the Pant Nagar YMCA court, Ghatkopar, today.

Results:

Boys:

StAndrew's 68 (Niren D'Souza 14, Aaron Cardoz 10, Kris Rodrigues 8, Giles Castellino 8) bt Burhani 20 (Amit Nigel 15).

Maharashtra 33 (Iftekhar Ansari 8, Shaikh Rafique 13, Arshad Khan 6) bt R A Podar 19 (Srikant R 5, Anil P 5, Pankaj Rane 6) (Ht:22-10).

K J Somaiya Arts & Commerce 48 (Sachin More 15, Nilesh Jadhav 10, Umer Kazi 11, Ralph Gomes 9) bt Elphinstone (Placid Fernandes, Gerald Crasto 4).

R Jhunjhunwala 35 (Shailesh Saldanha 12, Ashish Lad 12, Chetan Shetty 7) bt Jai Hind 15 (A Handiwala).

Girls:

Cathedral 16 (Nida Ghouse 12) bt R Jhunjhunwala 0 (Ht: 8-0).

SIES Arts & Science 20 (I David 10, Pallavi Shetty 8) bt Bhavan's 0 (Ht: 14-0).

K J Somaiya Arts & Commerce 18 (Daisy Henry 16, Joyce Buthello 2) bt Kundnani 12 (Paradinya H 8, N Lobo 2, Sheetal Menezes 2) (Ht: 8-4).