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Pune's Apoorv named captain

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

PUNE, May 18: Apoorv Sontakke of Pune and Anita Krishnan of Bombay South East would lead the Maharashtra state boys and girls teams in the 50th junior National basketball tournament to be held at Pondicherry from May 21-27.

Teams
Boys: Apoorv Sontakke (capt., Pune), Ashish Lad, Nilesh Jadhav, Ralph Gomes (all Bom. North), Aamir Ansari, Anoop D'Almeida (Bom. South East), Sidharth Shukla (Bom. Central), Anant Jadhav (Nagpur), K B Chinoy (Thane), Daniel Kamble (Solapur), Rajnikant Acharya (Bom. South West) and Mahesh Magane (Sangli).
Girls: Anita Krishnan (capt.), Sonali D'Souza, Ami Momaya, Sushma Holmagi (all Bom. South East), Mithila Gujar, Rashmi Yewale (Satara), Poonam Holkar, Minal Patil (Nagpur), Gayatri Mamolikar (Thane), Renuka Agarwal, Amruta Rane (Pune), Loveena Figueiredo (Bom. North).

Sathe Group win
Sathe Group along with MCG, TES Group and PDMBA `C' carved out a one sided win over their respective opponents in the Poona District and Metropolitan Badminton Association organised inter-club badminton championship at the WIE sports complex, today.

Group A: MCG bt Ruckson Soft: 3-0 (Ajay Akut bt Rajesh Tondare 15-2, 15-2; Aditya Bhave/Amit Sathe bt R Tondare/Shailesh Gokhale 15-0, 15-1; Sameer Dhadadgav/ Manoj Deshwandikar bt Navid Mohamd/ Raghavan 15-0, 15-1.

PDMBA `C' bt Toophan: 3-0 (Nikhil Lokhande bt Sunil Ranade 15-1 con.; N Lokhande/Ninad Khade bt Bipin Deo/Bipin Chobhe 15-5, 15-4; Vikrant Parbat/Harshal Shimpi W/o S Ranade/Sunil Choradia.

Sathe Group bt Alpa Bachat `A': 3-0 (Satish Sathe bt Kailash Kulkarni 15-0, 15-4; Mangesh Pawangadkar/Satish Sathe bt Abhijit Patil/Dhanjay Ranade 15-1, 15-2; Hemant Hardikar/Anil Palgaonkar bt Dhruva Nane/Kailash Kulkarni 15-0, 15-3.

TES Group bt Cummins Ltd.: 3-0 (Kaushal Patankar bt Sharad Manjrekar 15-0, 15-1; Kaushal Patankar/Dhavale bt S G Manjrekar/P A Sapkal 15-9, 15-11; Kumthekar/Doshi W/o Pire/Gund.

Gr B: PDMBA `D' bt Sarfare `B': 3-0 (Neha Pandit bt Ashirwad Mahajan 15-13, 8-15, 17-14; Nitesh Joshi/Parag Tulpule bt Santosh Ubale/Tanmay Date 15-3, 15-2; Meghana Pawaskar/Aditi Mutalkar bt Ankush Jadhav/ Chaitanya 15-2, 15-4.

BV beat VKM
Bhekraimata Vidyalaya (BV) began their campaign for supremacy on a sound note defeating Vikram Krida Mandal (VKM) by one innings and six points in the men's category of Nav Maharashtra Sangh organised Pune district Kabaddi championship at the S P College ground, today.

Womens: Arya Kridadharak: 8 lost to Girls High School, Bhore: 9.
Mens: Vikram Krida Mandal: 7 lost to Bhekraimata Vidyalaya: 13.
Junior Boys: Amar Krida Mandal: 8 bt Bekraimata Vidyalaya: 7; Amar Krida Mandal: 10 bt Modern Vidyalaya: 7.
Junior Girls: Girls High School, Bhor: 10 bt Samarth Krida Sangh : 9; Arya Kridadharak: 10 bt SNDT: 6; Girls High School, Bhor: 5 lost to Nutan Krida Mandal: 7.

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