At MIG ground today, the hosts beat Shivaji Park Youngsters by a thumping margin of 136 runs, while SPG beat holders National Cricket Club by seven wickets at the Cross maidan.

A second successive century by opener Manish Bangera and half centuries by Sandesh Paralkar, Amit Velaskar and Prashant Shetty helped MIG post a mammoth 426-4 in their stipulated 70 overs.

In reply, SPY were bowled out for 290 in 64.4 overs. Jitendra Shende (52) and Suhas Mayekar (47) were the principle contributors. Satish Samant and Sandesh Paralkar took three wickets each.

In the other semi-final, an unbeaten knock of 60 (1x6, 9x4, off 74b) by southpaw Manoj Joglekar steered SPG to a seven-wicket win over National. Joglekar and Shreyas Khanolkar (31 n.o.) shared an unbroken fourth-wicket partnership of 67 runs as SPG won easily.

Briefscores

National CC 142 in 50.1 overs (Sameer Apte 73) lost to Shivaji Park Gymkhana 145-3 in 24.2 overs (Manoj Joglekar 60 n.o., Shreyas Khanolar 31 n.o.).MIG CC 426-4 in 70 overs (Sandesh Paralkar 64, Manish Bangera 103, Amit Velaskar 70, Prashant Shetty 67, Chandrakant Pandit 42 n.o.) bt Shivaji Park Youngsters 290 in 64.4 overs (Abhijit Patil 30, Ravi Singh 39, Jitendra Shende 52, Suhas Mayekar 47, Sandeep Dahad 40, Ashish Mahadeshwar 31 n.o.; Satish Samant 3-56, Sandesh Paralkar 3-69).

Bombay Gym champs

Bombay Gymkhana won the South Bombay Shield cricket tournament (45 overs) when they beat Regent CC by 35 runs on their homeground, today.Half centuries by Amol Desai (52) and Salil Babar Desai (50) enabled Bombay Gymkhana score 225-9. In reply, Regent were restricted to 190-9 in 45 overs. Left-arm medium-pacer Shailendra Singh took 3-42.

Rajput XI score

Rajput XI beat Catholic Gymkhana 5-4 in the Punjab National Bank-sponsored BHA First Division hockey league at the KhalsaCollege Ground today.Sanjay Fernandes (3) and Gavin Vandrine (2) netted for Rajput. Ryan Alphonso (3) and Valerian Picardo scored for Catholic Gymkhana.

In the other First Division tie, Fr Agnel Gymkhana trounced Marinagar 5-0. The highlight of the game was a hat-trick by Tanveer Shaikh. Rego Menezes and Dhanraj Ghale were the other scorers for the Vashi team.

In the Second Division, Larsen & Toubro defeated Vasai Eskimos A 4-1. A D'Silva, A Bhanji, G Trinidade and Ronnie Patel scored for the winners. Irfan Mohammed reduced the margin.