In the girls under-14 category, Shraddha Samani (Kolhapur), Amruta Mokal (Pune) and Priyanka Kshatriya (Nashik) are leading jointly with 2 points each at the end of the second-round.

In the girls under-12 section Rucha Karwade, won both her rounds to lead the field with Niharika Thakkar, Trichi Chawla, Tanvi Thakur, Vaishali Kulkarni, Mrudula Nambiar (all Mumbai) and Kruttika Nadig and Soumya Swaminathan (both Pune).

In the boys under-12 section, Gurupreet Singh Maras (Nag), Yogesh Mapari (Aur), Mihir Naniwadekar and Soumitra Mujumdar (Pun), Rishav Kapur, Omkar Kulkarni (Tha) and Nikhil Kamat (Mum) along with 7 others jointly lead with 3 points each at the end of the third round.

BSE enter final: Bombay StockExchange (BSE) beat JB Boda & Co by 70 runs in the semi-final of the 5th Kotak Mahindra Invitational cricket tournament at the Parsi Gymkhana, today.

Brief scores: BSE 277-4 in 40 overs (Dilip Agarwal 81, Pranav Shah 68, Nimesh Soni 57 n.o.) bt JB Boda & Co 207 all out in 34.5 overs (C Keni 40, Sharad Uchill 40; Dilip Agarwal 3-17, Dharmesh Mehta 3-52).

Easy for Lyndon: Lyndon Braganza (60) scored a facile 113-72, 96-83 win over MA Khan (50) in the first-round of the Sushil R Ruia Cup snooker tournament, sponsored by Selvel and Consultant, at the Matharpacady Club, Mazgaon, today.

Other results: First-round: C Serrao (60) bt V Peshman 129-66, 86-65; S Madan (60) bt S Shetty (60) 115-68, 82-108, 112-100; M Jagdale (55) bt Carl Vaz (60) 114-78, 92-107, 116-114.

Pomendkar dazzles: Suhas Pomendkar scalped top seed Nagsen Etambe, 18-8, 21-17, in the open singles fifth round of the 4th Mayor Cup carrom tournament at the BMC Gymkhana, Azad maidan, today.

Other results: Open singles(5th-round): Jagan Bengle bt Satish Shirsat 6-17, 25-12, 25-10; Arun Kedar bt Sandeep Ambekar 20-17, 21-14; Harji Boricha bt Allwyn D'Souza 18-12, 25-11; Narsing Rao Sakari bt FM Ali 25-5, 25-0. 6th-round: Chakor Salve bt Suhas Kambli 25-10, 25-10; Jitendra bt Nandkumar Mhatre 25-8, 25-9; Manu Baria bt Uday Pednekar 25-7, 25-8; Ramesh Pusal bt Suresh Jadhav 25-5, 25-17.

Agradneya prevail: Agradneya Vyayamshala `A' girls beat hosts Indian Gymkhana 21-5 to enter the finals of the Colgate-Palmolive sponsored ninth DB Prabhu Memorial State Level sub-junior Basketball Tournament.

Results: Boys: Group A: NNH 37 (Karim Ahmed 14, Rehman Shaikh 11) bt Good Counsel 9. HT: 21-6.

Group B: Savios 14 bt OL Fatima 12; Mastan YMCA `A' 46 (Faisal Shaikh 8, Ubed Shaikh 8, Naved Khan 8) bt OL Fatima 6 (T Karan 4).

Group C: Wellingdon YMCA `A' 60 (Shaikh Zahiruddin 16, Shafiq Shaikh 12, Siraj Ansari 10, Afzal Shaikh 10) bt Agnel Gym `B' 10.

Group E: Mastan YMCA B 25 (Md Rizwan 8) bt Agnel Gym C 0.