November 21: Sharad Divecha, playing to a handicap of 11, brought distinction to the Willingdon Sports Club course here today with the best card of 71 on the first day of the ANZ Investment Bank Invitational golf championship.

Divecha came home with a score of 42 points, 22 on the way out, in this stableford competition. Divecha finished with four gross birdies (two on the outward trip) and seven gross (three on the way back) for a gross score of 31.

Before Divecha gave in his card, Australian Colin Rudd (24) was the best with a score of 35 stableford points. Surjit Singh Dugal (14) also had a 35. But Rudd was ahead because of a better back nine score.

Seventeen-year-old Rohit Goyal (5) started out promisingly, shooting two gross birdies and three gross pars on the front nine, but faltered on the way back, securing just four pars, for a gross card of 26.

Behram Ganadia of WSC came with the second best score of 39 points. He has nine gross pars.

Easy for OLR

Our Lady of Remedy (Poisur) scored a 4-0 victory over St Mary's (Dahisar) in the under-17 Bro Paulus Memorial Inter-School football tournament at the Vidya Vikasini High School ground, Vasai today.

Sibin Paul (2), Manish Shelar and Gaurang Mandiya were the goal-getters.

Other results: St Lawrence 1 (Sanil Prashant) bt St Xavier's, Andheri 0; St Aloysius, Nalla Sopara 3 (Alroy Pereira, Bakul Chavan, Rehan Ansari) bt St Xavier's, Naigaon; Vidya Vikasini B, Vasai 3 (Samalker Gitesh, Anant Gawde, Urban Dominic) bt St Francis, Vasai 0; St Joseph's, Kalamboli 3 (Gurupreet Singh 2, Vinayak Kumar) bt St Xavier's, Borivili 1 (Varun Kapoor); Fr Agnel, Malad 2 (Koli Dujan, Nayak Jiten) bt St Lawrence, Borivili 1 (Anil Mishra).

Bro Columban Memmorial (under-14): St Francis D'Assisi 5 (Vicky Varma 2, Nishit Karkera, Rajesh Karekar, Rahul Paradia) bt St Mary's, Mira Road 0; Vidya Vikasini A 4 (Prabhjot Dhillon 3, Chandak Kanishka) bt St Xavier's, Andheri 0.

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