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PUNE, Sept 18: Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce (BMCC) continued their strangle-hold in the PDMGSC under-19 badminton tournament as their eves defended their crown defeating Fergusson College 2-1 at the WIE Sports Complex today.
Likewise, their boy's were one-step closer from making it a `grand double' as they stormed into the final with a 2-0 win over Modern College and will now take on Fergusson who knocked out Abasaheb Garware College but the same score-line.
In the girls final, BMCC trailed initially losing the first singles, when Snehal Date put out Gauri Kulkarni 11-13, 3-11. Trupti Murgunde the currebt senior state champion rectified BMCC's opening loss with a ease 11-1, 11-3 win over Radhika Chitale. In the deciding doubles, Trupti paired up with Maitreyee Kale to make short-work of Radhika Chitale and Chatura Vaidya 15-10, 15-6.
Girls; U-19; Finals: BMCC b Fergusson College: 2-1 (Snehal Date lost to Gauri Kulkarni 11-13, 2-11; Trupti Murgunde b Radhika Chitale 11-4, 11-3; Trupti Murgunde-Maitryee Kale b Radhika Chitale-Chatura Vaidya 15-10, 15-6).
Boys; U-19; S/F: BMCC b Modern College: 2-0 (Aditya Umrani b Tejas Cholkar 15-4, 15-0; Sagar Sarda b Ninar Khade 14-17, 15-9, 15-6).
Fergusson College b Abasaheb Garware College: 2-0 (Varun Khanvalkar b Omkar Gupta 15-3, 15-1; Harshad Jogaikar b Rohan Mahabshad 15-12, 15-11).
Boys; U-17; Q/F: Seth Dagdushet Katariya b Loyola H.S: 2-0 (Anup Jamdagni b Kunal Pradhan 15-4, 15-2; Ajit Phatak b Pranav Khot 15-9, 15-12).
Abhivav Vidyalaya (English) b Panditrao Agashe H.S: 2-1 (Tejas Ranade b Nikhil Phadnis 15-5, 15-1; Tejas Kinjwadekar lost to Vaibhav Deshpande 5-15, 12-15; Tejas-Rahul Gadre b Vaibhav Deshpande-Tejas Joshi 15-7, 15-6).
St. Vincent's b Kamalnayan Bajaj H.S: 2-0 (Sagar S b K Chetan 15-3, 15-3; Bhavin Chandak b P Aalok 15-4, 15-10).
Muktangan H.S b Vimlabai Garware H.S: 2-1 (Siddharth Joshi b Omkar Govardhan 15-3, 15-1; H Bhagwat lost to Akshay Gadre 4-15, 15-12, 10-15; Soham Gadgil-H Bhagwat b Apoorva-Akshay 15-0, 15-6).
Boys; U-14; Q/F: St. Vincent's b Abhinav Vidyalaya (Marathi) 2-0 (Kanak Sashtrabudhe b Manas Alurkar 15-8, 15-11; Siddharth Sarfare b Anil Pansare 15-8, 15-5).
Loyola High School b MIT (Marathi Med): 2-1 (Harshwardhan Satbhai lost to Saurabh Paralikar 15-17, 0-15; Aditya Chitra b Sushil Kanade 15-0, 15-1; Aditya Chitre-Harshwardhan Satbhai b S. Gadgil-Saurabh 15-1, 15-3.
NCL (English Med) b P.B Jog (Marathi): 2-1 (Nitesh Joshi b Aritam Parankar 15-1, 15-0; Jaideep Pore lost to Siddharth Mahadik 5-15, 2-15; Nitesh Joshi-Rasik Phalke b Siddharth-Prasar Garge 15-2, 15-0).
Panditrao Agashe H.S b Modern H.S (English): 2-1 (Akshay Behre b Chaitanya Dixit 15-0, 15-3; Kshitij Phansalkar lost to Parag Tulpule 0-15, 0-15; Akshay-Ashish Kulkarni b Parag-Mihir Sathe 15-8, 15-12).
Girls; U-14; Q/F: Abhinav Vidyalaya (English) b MES Balshikshan (Eng. Medium) 2-1 (Aarti Matkar b Jai Jadhav 11-2, 11-1; Manasi Desai lost to Amita Dahinje 0-11, 1-11; Girija Ranade-Aarti b Dhanashree Dabir-Amita 12-15, 17-16, 17-14).
Abhinav Vidyalaya (Marathi) b Sardar Dastur H.S: 2-1 (Gayatri Kochak lost to Sheetal R 11-0, 11-0; Amraja Panse lost to S Bhosale 1-12, 5-11; b Gayatri-Priyanka Bapat b Geetanjali-Prerna Kapoor 15-3, 15-9).
St. Joseph's b MIT (Marathi): 2-0 (shipi Kankane b Gayatri Dharne 11-0, 11-2; Gayatri Gunjal b Mansi Satbhai 11-3, 11-0).
Jain Kanya Shala, Chinchwad b NCL (English): 2-1 (Meghana Pawaskar lost to Sayali Gokhale 5-11, 12-13; Dipti Parelu b Poorva Doke 11-0, 11-0; Meghana-Bharati Paralu b Sayali-Poorva).
Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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