Tata Electric flattered to deceive. They began well but failed to deliver the goods. Their defence, in which goalkeeper Clarence Roberts stood out, held on to the rival pressure for the first 15 minutes.

Centaur scored their first goal in the 18th minute through Elias D'Souza, who scored with a top-of-the-box shot, after receiving a pass from Kingsley Rebello.

Inspired with the goal, Centaur pressed harder and notched their second goal through Ramnarayan Nair, who struck from close in the 29th minute, following a pass by Adrian Moraes.

BPCL (Refineries) held Ceat Tyres to a goalless draw in Section B of the First Division.

Young Boys failed to turn up against BPCL (Marketing).

In Sundays action, Borovlians beat Jai Ambe 2-0 in Div IA after a goalless first half.

Vivian Menezes and Jimmy Noronha struck after the change of ends tobring up three points for Borovlians.

Sundays matches: Div IIIA: Sonata 2 (Tarun Basak, Santosh Mangela) bt Cecelian 0. Striker Boys 3 (Prashan Raut, Savio Miranda, Nasir Momin) bt Young Dynamos 0.

Div IIIB: Jyoti Dadar Boys 2 (Ranvinder Sakaria, Vinod Solanki) bt IIT (Powai) 0. Div IIB: Fatima Beach Boys 6 (Roy Fernandes 2, Glenn D'Souza 2, Anthony Lobo, Wilfred Vaz).

Cops held

Maharashtra State Police (MSP) and Dadar XI ‘B drew goalless in a WIFA Gulf Oil Senior Division football match at the Cooperage, today.

State Bank of India (SBI) playing in the same division blanked ICL 3-0 with Mohammad Sadique, D Bhoir and Hashmukh Baria getting their names on the scoresheet.

Easy for Ruia

Ruia College defeated Jhunjhunwala 10-3 in the quarter-finals of the Inter-Collegiate water polo tournament at the YMCA swimming pool, Agripada, today.

In another quarter-final tie, Narsee Monjee beat Vivek 9-0.

In the semi-finals, Ruia meet holders Mithibai and N M Commerce run into H RCommerce.

Results:

Quarter-finals: Ruia 10 (Jay Wagh 7 including 5 in a row, Vijay Wagh 3) bt Jhunjhunwala 3 (Ranjitsingh Bhan 2, Arvindan Yasudevan); Narsee Monjee 9 (Karan Thakur 7 including 5 in a row, Mandar Gadkari, Karan Aswani) bt Vivek 0.

Joe Crasto Memorial races

The United Athletes Sports Club will be organising the tenth All-Bandra Inter-School Road Race for schools in Bandra on August 23 and the eighth Joe Crasto Memorial off-season races on September 6.

Entry forms (from August 4) are available with Edward Sampey, 5, St Sebastian Road, Opp. Supari Tank Municipal School, Bandra (West), Mumbai 400 050. Tel. No. 643 29 99, between 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.