A half century by Nikhil Palande (61) and four wickets each by Onkar Salvi (4 for 24) and Vivek Naravne (4 for 6) helped Young Maharashtra to beat Young Comrade by 51 runs.

Brief Scores

Division II: Dadar Parsee Zorastrian 72 (Vishal Tawade 3-19, Nitin Samant 4-11) and 57 for 7 (Vishal Tawde 5-28) lost to P J Hindu Gymkhana 151 for 6 decl (Sairaj Bahutule 38, Tushar Zaveri 42) on the first innings.

Karnatak S A 171 for 5 decl (Nilesh Patwardhan 33, Nishit Shetty 58) drew with Islam Gymkhana 52 for 7 (Raju Sawant 3-25).

United Cricketers 81 (Ketan Karnik 37; Shravan Tawde 7-38, Ramesh Rajde 3-22) and 57 for 4 (Ketan Karnik 33 n.o.; N Gupte 3-13) lost to Jolly Cricketers 116 for 6 decl (Tej Mankar 43, TusharPatil 30) on the first innings.

Young Maharashtra 125 (N Palande 61; Sanjay Jamsandekar 4-16) bt Young Comrade 74 (Deepak Thakre 36; Omkar Salavi 4-24, Vivek Naravne 4-6).Dahisar 80 (Bhimesh Shah 3-12) and 68 for 3 (Yogesh Kaudhare 3-15) lost to Shivaji Park Gymkhana 84 for 5 decl (Franco Pereira 3-15) on the first innings.

Division IV: Sassanian 197 for 8 decl (Kishore Jadhav 44; N Gujar 3-45) bt New Hindu 79 (Javed Naikwadi 6-24, D Raje 3-21).

Young Muslim 170 (T Arora 48, V Shetty 43; Salil Baherdesai 4-51) drew with Gaud Saraswat 157 for 4 (K Meher 46, R Pagdhare 39 n.o.).

Evergreen 226 for 9 decl (Hitesh Khambe 71, R Bandodkar 63, Ashok Nagaonkar 35 n.o.; Subhod Nimkar 3-46, C Shevale 4-52) bt Sangam 106 (Paresh Satghar 30, S Kansara 33; Amit Gholatkar 6-21).

Parsee Cyclist 111 (F Desai 43; F Correia 4-19, C Gonsalves 3-21) lost to United Friends 113 for 8 (F Desai 4-49).

Ansari's scores hat-trick

A hat-trick by Iqbal Ansari steered Lazio to victory past Wallboys 3-1 in a MDFADivision IIIB football league match at the St Xavier's Ground, Parel today.

Eludha Gomes reduced the margin for the losers.

In a Div II B encounter, a second-half goal by Glen D'Souza saw Fatima Beach Boys wriggle past Fatima Khar 3-2. Beach Boys went into the lead with D'Souza and Zico Gomes to take a 2-0 lead. But their opponents were well to match equalising through Riyaz Ahmed and Jagan Chavan to make it 2-2 at half-time.

Other Results

Div III A: Worli Sports 1 (Simon Fernandes) bt Sonata 0; MLWB, Naigaon 5 (Subhash Kamble 2, Tanaji Satpute, Prashant B, Kiran Kadam) bt Striker Boys 1 (Harichand Bhare); Bosco Strikers 2 (Valencky Rodrigues, Francis Fernandes) bt Cecilian 0

Div III B: Fatima Parish, Sewri 2 (Gopal Shenoy, Prem Sheikh) bt IIT, Powai 1 (SN Jha).

Big win for Rizvi

Rizvi college scored the biggest victory in the Inter-Collegiate football tournament, winning 5-0 against RK Talreja, Ulhasnagar at the Azad Maidan here today.

Luciano D'Souza and Imchen Lanochusascored a brace each while Melvin Vaz added to the tally.

There were two other players who scored two goals each -- Lance Fonseca for Mithibai and Arnold D'Souza for St. Xavier's.

Results

St. Andrew's 1 (Denis Menezes) bt Chinai 0; St. Xavier's 3 (Arnold D'Souza 2, Arun Menon) bt Kishanchand Chelaram 0; Rizvi 5 (Luciano D'Souza 2, Imchen lanochusa 2, Melwin Vaz 1) bt RK Talreja 0; Mithibai 3 (Lance Fonzeca 2, Paul Fernandes) bt Burhani 0.

Pereira honoured

Walter Pereira of Income-Tax (Mumbai) has been adjudged as the Referee of the Year in the National class for the President award.

Manuel Pereira of FCI (Mumbai) has been adjudged as the Referee of the Year in Class I for the late B C Pinto award.

P A Subramanian has been adjuged as the Referee of the Year in Class II for the late K T Vaidya award.

WIFA office-bearers

President: S R D'Silva. Vice-Presidents: SS Shetty and F Sanches. Secretary: A F Pinto. Jt-secretary: Joe Fernandes.Treasurer: James Jones. Committee members: J Ravi Shankar, Michael Pereira, Walter Pereira, Bosco Pereira, Saby D'Costa and S S Salian.

Meghan Gupte shines

Varun Dattani, Soumitra Mujumdar, Rohil Bhat, Sachin Bedekar, Prasad Patil and Akshay Deshmukh, along with 15 others, lead the field with two points each at the end of the second-round of the boys under-9 State chess championship, organised by the Children Chess Academy, at the Dombivli Gymkhana, today.

In the boys under-7 category, top-seeded Sandeep Pawar alongwith 11 others is in the lead with two points at the end of the second-round. Second seed Nadeem Abdulla from Vashi was shocked by Meghan Gupte.

In the girls under-9 section, top-seeded Ketaki Kulkarni scored an easy victory over Monika Maskari in the first-round.

Top seed Devangi Patankar defeated Gayatri M in the first-round of the girls under-7 category.