Khalsa suffered from lack of arsenal in offence. Quintina Noronha, who was their only good player in offence, was easily marked by a sound Xavier's defence. Khalsa also did well while protecting their own end, and managed to keep junior National Loveena Figueiredo from running amok. But it took only a simple screen for Xavier's to flounder Khalsa. Sangeeta D'Silva did that job with aplomb, and made merry on the passes from Loveena to top-score with 25 points.

The end of the game was marred by a sad incident, when Khalsa's Sonali D'Souza was brought down by Xavier's Sangeeta D'Silva. Sonali lay motionless on the court for a few moments and suffered a blow on herhead.

Results (final)

Xavier's 47 (Sangeeta D'Silva 25, Loveena Figueiredo 17) bt Khalsa 18 (Quintina Noronha 11, Hemali Tawde 6); Third place: Podar 49 (Darshani Sawant 26, Ami Momaya 10, Vandana Subramony 9) bt Vaze 17 (Anita Joshi 7) HT 27-3.

Sathaye spikers win

Sathaye College defeated sister concern Mulund College of Commerce 25-17, 25-19 in the men's second round of the inter-college (degree) volleyball tournament at Somaiya College today.

Results (2nd round)

Men: Mithibai bt AP Commerce 25-17 25-8; Sydenham bt Somaiya Science 20-26 26-24 15-9; Ruia bt Govt Law 26-16 26-19; Sardar Patel bt NM Commerce 25-27 25-22 16-14; Thakur bt Xavier's 25-18 25-18; Tolani bt KC 25-21 25-22; Vaze bt Ismail Yusuf 25-14 25-17; Bhavan's bt Khandwala 25-14 27-25; Sathaye bt Mulund Commerce 25-17 25-9; PD Lions bt Chetana 28-22 25-21; Burhani bt DAV 25-7 25-7; Saboo Siddik bt RA Podar 25-23 25-15; Somaiya Arts bt Elphinstone 25-16 25-17; Jai Hind bt B Vartak 16-25 29-27 15-11; NR Swamy btMLDC 25-21 8-25 15-5; St Andrew's bt Vivek 29-27 20-25 15-12.

Women: Bhavan's bt Sophia 25-22 25-6; Mulund Commerce bt Royal 25-4 25-8; Sathaye bt ICL 25-12 25-7; Xavier's w/o Vaze; Birla w/o ASC Panvel.

Rohan stretched

RA Podar's Rohan Radhakrishnan had to struggle before advancing to the quarter-finals of the inter-college (degree) badminton tournament at University Pavilion today. Rohan was kept on court for three games by KC's P Raj before winning 15-9 13-15 15-10.

Results

Men singles (4th round): Kunal Vaswani (KC) bt Ankush Gupte (Wilson) 15-1 15-2; S Kanade (CHM) bt Avishkar Patil (GSM) 17-15 15-12; Nikesh Gabrera (Shahani) bt Amit Sanas (SIES) 15-7 15-1; Anupam Singh (Vaze) bt Sanjesh D'Souza (Jondhale) 15-8 15-9; Himanshu Thakkar (Joshi Bedekar) bt Amol Upadhye (Kirti) 15-1 15-2; Mayur Bhojwani (HR) bt Kunal Rawal (Mithibai) 15-10 15-5; Deepak Jetley (Sydenham) bt Haresh Paliyath (Finolex) 11-15 15-10 15-2; Behzad Devadhwala (Podar) bt Azeem Jagani (National) 15-1 15-10;Harshad Tawde (Sydenham) bt Vishal Hansraj (Bom Engg) 15-12 15-10; AD Vakharia (Kandivli) bt Varif Vazifdar (HR) 15-5 15-2; P Raj (KC) w/o A Mahajan (Vivekanand); Rohan Radhakrishnan (Podar) w/o M Orval (Khalsa); Rahul Tipnis (Mithibai) bt Yezad Wadia (Elphinstone) 15-11 15-0; Rushabh Modi (Shahani) bt Dinkar Bhatt (Birla) 15-12 15-10; A Bajaj (NM) bt Shiva (Bhavan's) 15-8 15-3; Bhushan Paithankar (Joshi) bt Ranjeet Jhaveri (National) 15-9 15-3. (PQF): Kunal Vaswani (KC) bt S Kanade (CHM) 15-10 15-9; Anupam Singh bt Nikesh Gabrera (Shahani) 15-8 15-9; Himanshu Thakkar (Joshi Bedekar) bt Mayur Bhojwani (HR) 15-4 15-6; Behzad Devadhwala (Podar) bt Deepak Jetley (Sydenham) 15-10 10-15 15-13; Rohan Radhakrishnan (Podar) bt P Raj (KC) 15-9 13-15 15-10; Rahul Tipnis (Mithibai) w/o Rushabh Modi (Shahani); Bhushan Paithankar (Joshi) bt A Bajaj (NM) 15-1 15-4.

Women's singles (3rd round): Sapna Desai (Joshi) bt Nikita Sawant (Somani) 11-0 11-0; Charmi Sethia (Podar) bt Trupti Shinde (NR Swamy) 11-1 11-1; Sampada Pai(Ruparel) bt Koneri Gandha (NM) 11-2 11-4; Y Hannah (Xavier's) bt Sridevi Tambi (Sathaye) 11-3 11-2; Prajakta Mhatre (Bhavan's) bt Zenobia Mistry (Birla) 11-0 11-0; Aruna Jayaram (SIES) w/o Shalaka Damle (Ruia); Anuj Wadke (Bhavan's) bt Rameshwari Varde (BV Engg) 11-1 11-1; Sangeeta Chawla (Khalsa) bt Priti Talpate (Ruparel) 11-9 11-8; Priya Ramchandani (Jai Hind) bt Sarika Ayre (Sathaye) 11-1 11-8; Gauri Narayan (Podar) bt Karishma Sampat (Wilson) 11-0 11-0; Pooja Kotwani (HR) bt Avanti Gade (Sydenham) 11-2 11-1. (4th round): Charmi Sethia (Podar) w/o Ramona Jamwal (Sophia); Sampada Pai (Ruparel) bt Y Hannah (Xavier's) 11-2 11-2; Prajakta Mhatre (Bhavan's) bt Aruna Jayram (SIES) 11-8 11-0; Gauri Narayan (Podar) bt Priya Ramchandani (Jai Hind) 11-3 11-1; Pooja Kotwani (HR) bt Vaishali Desai (NM) 11-5 11-1; Anuj Wadke (Bhavan's) bt Sangeeta Chawla (Khalsa) 11-0 11-0.

Podar, Vaze score

RA Podar beat BH Somani 2-0 and VG Vaze got the better of Tolani by an identical margin in the JuniorInter-Collegiate girls badminton tournament at the Kalidas Gymkhana, today.

Huge lead for MCC

Mulund Commerce (MCC) maintained their domination in the Inter-college (degree) chess championship, conducted by Bombay Chess Association and Mumbai University at DAV, Bhandup today. In the third and fourth rounds today, MCC defeated Vartak and RK Talreja 3.5-0.5 and 4-0 respectively. They lead the eight-team league with 15.5 points after four rounds. HR are in second place with 11 points, while Pendharkar and Vivekanand Engg are locked in third place 9 points.

In the girls championship, fourth seed Kadambari Herwadkar upset last year's runner-up and top seed Malti Whatwar (Chetana) to lead with four points.