Sitwala, who was trailing, came up with a break of 19 to vanquish his opponent and make the pre-quarter-finals of the competition.

Results

Fourth-round: Nikhil Ootam (18) bt B Aga (10) 69-56; J Singaporewala (11) bt Gul Sarkar (7) 25-16; Fulchand Bhagwan (22) bt SAD Khan (8) 77-35; Dhruv Sitwala (50) bt Arvind Savur (60) 33-2.

Third-round: Prakash Khandelwal (12) bt Anthony Pereira (10) 76-6; Baga bt Malcolm Andrade 68-30.

Tatas triumph

Tata Sports Club defeated Karnatak Sporting Association 1-0 in the first Karnatak Veterans football league, sponsored by Raja Radio Palace (Andheri), at the latter's homeground, today.

The all-important goal was scored by Kalyan Sarkar off a pass by Ganesh Rao.

With this victory, Tatas, who head the table with seven points from three matches,strengthen their chances for a semi-final berth.

Reserve Bank of India stunned Central Railway 2-0 and marred the latter's semi-final hopes. Vilas Soste and Mohan Swamy were the goal-getters.

In yet another encounter of the same competition, Bombay Port Trust held fancied RCF to a goalless draw.

Randell 'tricks

A hat-trick by Randell Pereira was the highlight of Maccabi Tel Aviv's (Dadar) 3-0 victory over Kalina United A, in the final of the GM Sports Club Rink football tournament, sponsored by GM Breweries, at the Nardulla Tank maidan, Prabhadevi. Maccabi had also won the Lourdes Rink competition held at Kalyan recently.

In the match for third place, United Boys (Kalina) beat Bloomington Red 4-3 via the tie-breaker. Vivek Oberoi, Rajesh Rane, Hycinth Sieira and Vinay Kanchan scored for the winners. Jude Coutinho, Manual D'Souza and Agnelo Pereira netted for the losers.

Former International Arthur Pereira presided and gave away the prizes.

Highest scorer and best player of thefinal: Randell Pereira (Maccabi). Best player: Dominic D'Souza (Maccabi). Best defender: Rupesh Sukhtankar (Kalina United). Oldest player: Peter Lobo (Golden). Best disciplined team: Mazgaon Boys.

Business India top

Business India beat New India Co-Op. Bank by 68 runs to emerge champions in the D Division of the 24th Thanevaibhav cricket tournament (35-over) at the Dadoji Konddev Stadium, Thane.

Brief scores:

Business India 190-9 in 35 overs (Sapan Shukla 46; Kishore Patil 3-30, Sunil Deshmukh 3-32) lost to New India Co-Op. Bank 122 in 25.5 overs (Ajay Gautam 5-25) by 68 runs.

C Division (semis)

Afcons Infrastructure 139 in 34.4 overs (Rajendra Desai 51, Prafulla Joshi 3-15; Vibhakar Shelar 3-19, KG Prasad 3-24) lost to Blue Star 140-1 in 23.4 overs (Santosh Kore 50 n.o., Arun Varde 54 n.o.) by nine wickets. Voltas Switchgear 112 in 30 overs (Vikas Shetty 66 n.o.; Suvarna 3-19) lost to Autoriders India 114-7 in 29.3overs (Rajdeep Pise 30; Raghunath Khule 3-20) by three wickets.

B Division (quarter-final)

Lawkim 158 in 28.3 overs (A Ghatkar 46) lost to Ordinance Factory 161-8 in 25.2 overs (P Godambe 36, D Jagdale 39) by two wickets.