MUMBAI, Sept 19: Don Bosco, Sow Laximbai, Parle Tilak Vidyalaya, ML Jasudben, VG Vaze and Mulund Commerce will represent Mumbai in the Multigames inter-school table tennis state championships, a lead up to the National School Games, at Sindhudurg in October. They qualified for the state championship by winning the division finals held at Don Bosco School, Matunga, today.Don Bosco and Parle Tilak clashed in both the U-14 and U-17 boys finals; Bosco claimed the U-14 title 3-1, while Parle Tilak avenged the defeat with a 3-0 win in the U-17 event. Andhra Education Society had no such compensation. They lost both U-14 and U-17 finals, to Sow Laxmibai, Mulund and ML Jasudben, Khar respectively.
Results (all finals)
Boys u-14: Don Bosco, Matunga bt Parle Tilak 3-1 (Alok Shah bt Shishir Juvekar 21-13 21-19; Sahil Kukreja bt Gauresh Parab 21-19 21-18; Alok Shah & Aniket lost to Gaurav Shah & Ajinkya Deodhar 14-21 16-21; Sahil Kukreja bt Shishir Juvekar 21-14 14-21 21-12)
U-17: ParleTilak bt Don Bosco 3-0 (Shashank Juvekar bt Apurva Shah 21-12 21-12; Mitesh Puranik bt Gaurav Doshi 21-9 21-5; Mitesh Puranik & Priyesh Mayekar bt Apurva Shah & Rushad Patel 21-10 18-21 21-11)
U-19: VG Vaze bt Jaihind 3-0 (Gunjan Wagle bt Karan Kapur 21-19 19-21 21-19; Manas Karmarkar bt Zulfikar Lala 18-21 21-14 21-13; Gunjan & Ashwin Naik bt Zulfikar & Gaurav Bhatia 21-14 21-11)
Girls U-17: ML Jasudben bt Andhra Education Society 3-1 (Snehal Gala lost Sampoorna Pooja 17-21 8-21; Bhavna Suvarna bt Poonam Rai 21-10 21-5; Snehal & Avanti Tendulkar bt Poonam & SF Harshada 21-17 21-7; Bhavna Suvarna bt S Pooja 21-6 21-7)
U-19: Mulund Commerce bt RA Podar 3-1 (Jahnavi Deshpande bt Archana Jagannathan 21-11 21-5; Mamta Prabhu lost to Shruti Doshi 22-20 20-22 19-21; Mamta & Shubha Shetty bt Archana & Anumeha Bansal 21-19 21-12; Jahnavi Deshpande bt Shruti Doshi 21-14 20-22 22-20)
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