12-stroke lead for Jasjeet

Jasjeet Singh carded a two-under 70 to open a 12-stroke lead after the penultimate round of the Royal Challenge RCGC Cup at the on Thursday.

Jasjeet’s tournament tally now stands at 14-under 202.

Himmat Rai fired a round of one-over 73 to occupy the second place at two-under 214, two strokes ahead of Saurabh Bahuguna who compiled a round of two-over 74 to occupy the third place at 216.

Arindam wins

Arindam Mukherjee emerged winner in the third HDCA UK Rathi Divine Foundation-organised International Open Rating Chess Tournament at the Swamiji Sporting Club on Thursday.

AITA meet

Top seed Siddhant Deka of Assam won a three-setter against Shuvo Halder to make the semi-finals of the boys U-12 section in the Calcutta Gymkhana Senco AITA Talent Series Tennis Championship here Thursday. Deka won 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Vinod in finals

Fourth seed Vinod Sewa lined himself up for a double, making the final in the men's singles and doubles section of the Calcutta Gymkhana Grass Court Tennis. In the singles, he beat Robin Das 6-0, 6-3, while in the doubles, he partnered Manoj Sewa to beat Farid Alam/ Robin Das 6-4, 7-5.

Avishek shines

An unbeaten 58 from Avishek Bhowmick helped Wari Athletic Club register a three-wicket win over Young Bengal SA in a CAB first division league match here Thursday.

SUMMARISED SCORES

Dalhousie AC 304 (Okaito 96; Dilip Biswas 3/58, Saurav Sukla 3/28). NSI 295/8 (N. Yadav 112, Dibyendu Chakraborty 49Prabir Mukherjee 4/128). Match drawn.

BNR 389/6 (Prasanta Sinha Roy 150, Gitimoy Basu 64; Iresh Saxena 3/126). Aikya Sammilani 301/4 (Dilshad Akhtar 89, Writam Porel 61, Ashish Sharma 51 n.o.). Match drawn.

Tollygunge Agragami 412/6 (BK Mazmuder 81, Joydeep Lahiri 158 n. o., Sourav Das). Aryan Club 342/8 (Debendu Mahato 88, Subham Mitra 85; Pradip Das 3/111). Match drawn.

Mohammedan Sporting 254 (Sandeep T 87, Mohammed Sami Ansari 55; Abhishek Pandey 4/62, Ratnakar Mourya 4/55). Bhowanipore Club 258/4 (Sandeep Mehrotra 98, Abhijit Bose 60). Bhowanipore Club won by 6 wkts.

n Anand Bazar Patrika SC 198 (Priyankar Mukherjee 4/90). ERSA 199/3 (Aryan Nandi 85, Biswanath Bose 81). ERSA won by 7 wkts.

n Young Bengal SA (Avishek Pal 49; Kunal Bajpayee 6/59). Wari AC 176/7 (Avishek Bhowmick 58 n. o.; Soumik Biswas 4/61). Wari AC won by 3 wkts.

TODAY IN SPORT

FOOTBALL: Federation Cup third place play-off — Mahindra United vs Dempo SC at Salt Lake Stadium from 7 pm.

GOLF: Royal Challenge RCGC Cup at the RCGC.

TENNIS: Calcutta Gymkhana AITA Talent Series Tennis meet 2006 semi-finals from 10 am.