Sports

Pune, February 25: The inaugural function will witness the king of Bollywood kick off the event in style in presence of the president of the Indian Olympic association Suresh Kalmadi, Joaquim Alemao, president Goa Football Association, The Founder President of Bharati Vidyapeeth and minister for Cooperation, Relief and rehabilitation Dr. Patangrao Kadam, and Ashok Tanwar President of Youth Congress will be present on the occasion. The first match of the tournament between Thundercatz A and City Club will follow this.

Pune, February 21: Tech Mahindra aided by Shounak Palshikar (17 points) registered a 29-point win over T-Systems — the biggest win of the day — in the Maharashtra Krida Mandal Inter-IT baketball tournament, at the Deccan Gymkhana courts, recently.

Results

Pune, February 21: All-rounder Pravin Rupnar (2/17 & 19) and Raju Adsul (49 n.o.) proved match-winners for Hindustan Antibiotics and Gossamer respectively in the VII ‘Licel’ Twenty20 Cup limited overs cricket tournament at the Nehru Stadium, on Thursday.

BRIEF SCORES: Five's Foundation: 121/7; 19.4 overs (Chatan Dangi 42, Jeevan Dhumal 28; Rajendra Kalapure 2/23, Pravin Rupnar 2/17) lost to Hindustan Antibiotics: 124/7; 19.4 overs (Umesh Jagdale 39, Haseeb Miya 23; Pravin Rupnar 19, Swapnil Wagh 2/19) — by 3-wkts

Pune, February 21: Former Davis Cupper Nitten Kirrtane turned back the clock, but couldn't do the same with his fortunes and make it memorable losing the Super Singles final of the 59th Indian Club-Bahrain Financing Company Open Tennis Tournament recently.

In the final, Kirrtane was tamed by Fahad Al Saad of Saudi Arabia 5-7, 4-6.

The Super Singles event in the tournament had six invited Davis Cup players from Kuwait, Saudia Arabia, Bahrain and India wherein two groups of 3 players each with the top-two making the semis.

Pune, February 21: Rohan Panchal, Aditya Gokhale, Ayush Prabhune, Siddanth Bantia, Liyaan Akkalkotkar, Rucha Moghe, Snehal Mane won their respective age groups in the XV RCBC 'Open' Junior Tennis Championships organised on the club tennis courts, on Thursday.

In the boys Under-10 event Ayush Prabhune scraped past Aryan Rai 9-2; while in the girls Snehal Mane put out Saloni Ghodke challenge 9-3. Last year Ayush Prabhune had won the Under-8 title; this year he continued to keep his winning run intact.

Pune, February 20: Vinayak Renuse — adjudged the best all-rounder — played a stellar role in Milo Mather+Platt’s 69-run win over Ammunition Factory, Khadki (AFK) in the final of the ThyssenKrupp Industrial Sports Association Inter-Industrial cricket tournament.

The victors who won the toss and elected to bat scored 217/5 in their 45 overs, with Renuse (62) leading from the front. Renuse found a responsible partner in Manoj Shirole (42) and Manish Desai (44) to help Mather+Platt finish with a competitive total.

Pune, February 20: To hold good the motto Fragile yet fragrant, Prajakta Team of Kathak dancers provide dance therapy to special children in a project that will kick-start on February 24. A demonstration was made by Prajakta team at Akshar Nandan School on Wednesday evening. “I met these dance teachers in a school gathering and motivated my child to start practising from then,” said 10-year-old Mallavika Tulankar’s parent.

Pune, February 20: Aditya Gokhale scraped past Shardul Gopujkar 7-6 (7-5) to enter the boys under 12 final, while Raiyka Karachiwalla will clash with Rucha Moghe for the girls U-12 title in the XV RCBC Open Junior tennis championship.

In closely contested semifinals, Raiyka outplayed Simran Nadwani 8-6 while Rucha Moghe scored a hard fought win over Anushka Sathe before registering the same scoreline.

Pune, February 17: The anxiety over aggravating a career-threatening knee injury two years ago had given K C Ramu the sort of fear nightmares are made of. They spare no athlete, but injuries can do wonky things to the mind. Kennedy Chinna Ramu started dreading the final sprint stage of a marathon-training session, always wary of the muscle-snapping sound.

Pune, February 11: Loyola High School bagged a double crown at the recently conducted PSAA inter-school tennis tournament, winning the under-16 and under-18 team championships, both against the Bishops School. The under-16 won their final quite easily with a score of 3-0, courtesy Yash Mokashi and Rahul Kamthe. However, the u-18 team consisting of Vinayak Shrivastav, Ajinkya Kavthekar, Gaurav Mehta and Tanay Gupta was made to sweat it out, narrowly beating Bishops by a score of 3-2. Vinayak and Ajinkya showed great prowess to carry their team through.