Important results: Third-round: Anup Deshmukh bt Prasad Deshmukh; Avinash Awate bt Rashmin Pulekar; Sashikant Kutwal bt VN Ghate; V Makwana drew with Prasad Ghate; JM Utarid bt AN Iyer; DG Bhandarkar drew with Vinod Solanki; Y Disen Singh bt Kirit Shah; A Subramaniam bt Gaurav Gadodia.

Agrawal moves up
Arun Agrawal beat D Sitwala 840-670 in the Khar Gymkhana senior billiards round-robin tournament, today.

In another match of the same competition, Yasin Merchant beat JS Dawer 1087-683.
Junior snooker (semis): Ritesh Shah bt Kabir Malkani 86-2, 29-49, 85-8, 77-1; Mahesh Jagdale bt Siddarth Mody 61-54, 51-10, 8-76, 32-84, 74-12.

State Bank score
State Bank of India defeated Dalmiya Sports Club 25-15, 25-7 in the Mumbai City District volleyballchampionship at the MbPT ground, Mazagaon, today.In the other match, Mumbai Port Trust beat Syndicate Bank 25-10, 25-22.

Chembur YMCA up
Chembur YMCA pipped School of Basketball 46-44 in the Acharya College Boys U-22 winter basketball league today.

Chembur YMCA 46 (Ram Kumar 25, A Jude 10, Sheldon Buthello 8) bt SOB 44 (Lino Gracias 13, Chinmay Bhandarkar 13, Gerald B 7) HT 26-21

Somaiya SC 72 (Kayron Gomes 19, Mark Fernandes 12, Pankaj Rane 8, Ralph Gomes 7) bt Eagles 40 (Meldon Lobo 26, Wendol 8) HT 43-14

Mixed fortunes for state
Maharashtra had mixed fortunes in the 26th Sub-Junior National basketball championship at Anandpur Sahib today, according to information received here.

While the boys lost 39-51 to MP, the girls beat Assam and Manipur 37-11 and 62-40 respectively. Punjab boys and girls qualified for the quarter-finals.