IN THE CITY

ERSA in command vs Mohun Bagan

Eastern Railway SA (ERSA) placed themselves in a winning position against Mohun Bagan in their A.N. Ghosh Trophy match on Tuesday. On Day II, ERSA made 444 for five, taking a huge first-innings lead of 314 runs and then had Mohun Bagan under the cosh at 48 for three in their second innings.

SUMMARISED SCORES

n Mohun Bagan 130 & 48/3. ERSA 444/5 (Avik Mallick 100, Avishek Chowdhury 75, Ayan Nandy 72).

n Shambazar 427 (Surojit Das 130, Avishek Banerjee 87, Debabrata Pal 87). Aikya Sammilani 28/1.

School tennis

Top two seeds St James? and South Point Boys played to form and entered the ITA-organised Keventer inter-school tennis meet final at SAI Complex. In the semi-finals on Tuesday, St James? defeated St Paul?s 2-0, while La Martiniere went down fighting to South Point 1-2.

Among girls, La Martiniere and Calcutta International will vie for top honours.

RESULTS (semis)

Boys ? St James? bt St Paul?s 2-0; South Point bt La Martiniere 2-1. Girls ? La Martiniere bt M.B. Girls 2-1; Calcutta International bt St Thomas 2-1.

Floodlit meet

Azan Piperno defeated Vedant Gupta 7-1, while Rohit Gulgulia got the better of Akshay Chaudhuri 7-1 in the boys? under-12 category of the floodlit tennis meet at Saturday Club on Tuesday.

Five for trip to England

Five players have been selected from the Calcutta Police Friendship Football Tournament and will be taken on a guided tour of a few stadiums in London, as well Manchester United?s home Old Trafford.

ESPN-Star Sports is sponsoring the tour. The players selected are Tapas Dolui, Pappu Das, Sanjay Mullick, Tapas Das and Arshad Ali.

Billiards

Seema Desai had a comfortable 2-0 frame win over Manjula Singhi while Shreya Kothari beat Neeta Kothari 2-1 in state ladies billiards at BRC on Tuesday. In the junior?s section, Shahbaaz Ahmed and Ankush Dhelia had identical 2-0 frame wins against Mayank Daga and Raju Dutta, respectively. David Bose defeated Rohan Guha by 2-1 frames.

Volleyball

Simla Byam Samity earned a hard-fought 3-2 victory against East Calcutta Volleyball Club in the senior state volleyball league on Tuesday.

OTHER RESULTS

Jatra Suru Sangha bt Eastern Railway 3-1, CPT bt Saptarshi AC 3-0, Calcutta Police bt Southern Samity 3-0.

TODAY IN SPORT

BILLIARDS: State meet for ladies from 12 noon and junior meet from 2 pm at BRC.

CRICKET: AN Ghosh Trophy matches at various grounds from 9 am.

FOOTBALL: Exhibition match between Bengal under-21 side and AC Milan under-18 side at Salt Lake Stadium from 5 pm.

TENNIS: ITA-organised inter-school meet ? Boys? and girls? finals at SAI Complex from 11 am.

VOLLEYBALL: Senior state league matches at WBVA courts.