Fallary Warriors storm into semis, Models Eagles tops Group Models Eagles scored a stunning 3-2 victory over PBC Gladiators in its Final League match to top the Group B table at the end of the league stage. The doubles duo of Darwin Barreto and Parag Chauhan played out of their skins to defeat Pankaj Naik and Krushnan Naik 22-20, 21-23, 21-11 in their crunch Mens doubles encounter, leveling the scores at 2-2. Goa’s No 2 ranked Sunny Sawant thereafter defeated a battling Manoj Humrasker 16-21, 21-13, 21-15 to win the Tie for the Eagles. In the other matches in the Tie, Pankaj Naik and Sonali Gaokar beat Darwin Barreto and Vaibhavi Kalangutkar 21-17, 21-7, Sunny Sawant and Sumukh Sawant beat Aniket Shenoy and Krishnaraj Gawas 21-19, 21-16; and P.K. Gupta and T.S.Sawant beat Narahar Thakur and Ajay Gupta 21-18, 16-21, 21-18.
In the Group of Death encounter between Ponda Shuttlers and Fallary Warriors, the Warriors quelled the spirited challenge of the Shuttlers, winning 3-1 in a pulsating edge of the seat thriller. The Margao outfit had luck going their way as the Ponda pair of Pradeep Prabhu and Anushkar Kuvelkar had to concede the game to Sandip Kanji and Anura Prabhudesai after leading by a set, due to an on court injury to the Mens player. Sharmad Mahajan and Anurag Prabhu leveled the scores for the Shuttlers, winning their Under 19 Boys doubles with a comfortable 21-14, 21-16 win over Yash Angle and Sanath Kamat. It was Warriors all the way after that, with Vinayak Kamat and Cancio Mascarenas defeating Sudin Kuvelkar and Sudin Ghanekar 21-17, 21-16; and Chinmay Fallary and Kamlesh Kanji beating Sohal Kelekar and Kunal Savordekar 21-15, 21-19. In the semi Finals line-up, Models Eagles will face Fallary warriors while Fomento Flamingos will play PBC Gladiators. Following are the other results. Blackjag Panjim Challengers beat Ashron Panthers 3-0 Rajaram Kundaikar and Pranjal Chimulkar beat Nikhil Fulari and Riya Kosambi 21-16, 19-21, 23-21 Vaibhav Shetye and Shashank Desai beat Pratit Naik and Dhruv Angle 21-13, 15-21, 21-18 Rajendra Borkar and Anil Paiginkar beat Ramnath Shetgaokar and Peter Teles 21-15, 21-17 Fomento Flamingos beat Mallya Riders 3-0 Navneet nasnodkar and Astha Gupta beat Sandeep Heble and Siyarani Zuwarker 21-9, 21-19 Chinmay Kamat and Tejas Prabhugaokar beat Pramay Mainkar and Eeshan vernekar 21-14, 21-11 Candido Dias and Rupchandra Humrasker beat Chandrashekar and Satish Vernekar 21-9, 21-16 yours sincerely Sandeep Heble Secretary, PBC
