Apoorv Sontakke (Pune) and Anita Krishnan (Bombay S East) will lead Maharashtra in the boys and girls sections, respectively, in the 50th Junior National (under-18) basketball championships to be held at Pondicherry from May 21 to 27.

Teams

Boys: Apoorv Sontakke (captain, Pune), Ashish Lad, Nilesh Jadhav, Ralph Gomes (all 3 of Bombay North); Aamir Ansari, Anoop D'Almeida (both of Bom S East); Siddharth Shukla (Bom Central), Anant Jadhav (Nagpur), KB Binoy (Thane), Daniel Kamble (Solapur), Rajnikant Acharya (Bom S West) and Mahesh Magane (Sangli). Coach: Ravindran Nair (Thane). Manager: Riyaz Kazi (Bom S East).

Girls: Anita Krishnan (captain), Sonali D'Souza, Ami Momaya, Sushma Holmagi (all for 4 Bom S East); Mithila Gujar, Rashmi Yewale (both Satara), Poonam Holkar, Minal Patil (both of Nagpur); Gayatri (Thane), Renuka Agarwal, Amruta Rane (both of Pune) and Loveena Figueiredo (Bom North). Coach: Ajit Khaladkar (Thane).

BHA c'ships

The Bombay HockeyAssociation Ltd will be conducting the 1999 Bombay Hockey Championship (open to all divisions) from May 26th. The last date for receiving entries is May 22.

Cup on Khel.com

The World Cup fever has spread to the Net and Khel.com, the international cricket website will be delivering ball-by-ball coverage of all the matches. Khel.com has also lined up a collection of interactive competitions.

-- ENS