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28 BAHRAIN SPORT Gulf Daily News Tuesday, 28th October 2014 Email: [email protected] CEFL season winners honoured THE organising committee of the Companies and Establishments Football League (CEFL) hosted the season closing ceremony at Diplomat Hotel under the patronage of Supreme Council for Youth and Sports second vice-chairman and Bahrain Olympic Committee honorary president Shaikh Isa bin Rashid Al Khalifa. The event was attended by HM the King’s Advisor for youth and sports affairs Saleh bin Hindi and a number of officials from the sponsors. The CEFL season saw seven teams take part, with two teams for the first time in its history – Yousif bin Ahmed Kanoo and Tatweer. Al Zayani Investments won the league and cup titles for the first time. CEFL organising committee chairman Mazin Al Omran thanked Shaikh Isa bin Rashid Al Khalifa for patronising the closing ceremony and all companies and establishments for their support. He also praised sponsors Chevron Bahrain n The winning team members with officials and guests at the closing ceremony for their support and GPIC for sponsoring the best team of the season prize. Shaikh Isa bin Rashid presented the winning teams with the trophies. Bapco finished second and Alba third. Yousif bin Ahmed Kanoo won the best team of the season award and Al Zayani Investments team player Ahmed Yousif the top scorer prize with six goals. Faisal battles into last four INDIA’S No. 4 Faisal Khan survived a scare before entering the semi-finals of the Indian Club Centenary Snooker Tournament at the club premises in Gudaibiya. The Indian national team player faced stiff resistance from Esham Saqer, who won the first and a close third frames. But Khan showed his class when it mattered the most and reeled of the last three frames to win the match 4-2 (11-74, 74-16, 46-59, 65-15, 61-32, 62-34). In another quarter-final, held last night, Habib Subah beat Zohair Ebrahim 4-3 to reach the semis. Earlier on Sunday night, Afghanistan No. 1 Mohammed Saleh became the first player n Subah and, inset, Ebrahim during last night’s encounter. Pictures by EBRAHIM AL SINAN to enter the last four with an emphatic 4-0 (93-0, 67-5, 790, 59-24) victory over Majid Dhaif and book a place in the semi-final. Matches continue tonight at 7pm and 9pm and the grand final is set for tomorrow at 8pm. Indian billiards and snooker legend Arvind Savur is being specially flown in from Bangalore to be the guest of honour at the final. The total prize money is BD1,400 with the winner getting BD700 and runner-up BD400. There is also a special prize of BD147 for the highest break. The present highest break is 105, the only century break so far in the tournament, compiled by Saleh. Trans Auto Rental are the title sponsors of the tournament. New Millennium teams excel Indian Club B move into quarter-finals n New Millennium School team members with officials NEW Millennium School-DPS lifted the table tennis titles in the CBSE Cluster (Bahrain Chapter) Inter-School Championship held at NMSDPS campus. NMS–DPS teams were winners in the under-14 boys, under-16 boys and second runners-up in the under-19 boys category. All CBSE schools in the kingdom participated in this annual event. Chairman Dr Ravi Pillai, managing director Geetha Pillai and principal Arun Kuumar Sharma congratulated the students, parents and coach Deep- ak Singh Bisht for their commendable performance. RESULTS: Under – 14 boys: Winners : NMS-DPS Team (Jas Gajaria, Rushil Mathur, Feroz Hassan, Siddharth M). Under–16 boys: Winners : NMS-DPS Team (Yash Parikh, Karam Gursahani, Aniketh Das Roy). Under–19 boys: Third runners-up: NMS-DPS Team (Jay Parikh, Arslan Baig, Patanjali KV, Moksha Pachisia). Individual champion: Yash Parikh (under-16 boys). INDIAN Club ‘B’ and BCC ‘A’ completed the quarter-final cast in the Indian Club Seven-a-side Centenary Cup Cricket Tournament. Indian Club ‘B’ beat BOC by five wickets and BCC ‘A’ had to work a lot harder to get better of Indian Club ‘A’ by two wickets. Batting first, Indian Club ‘A’ were bowled out for 34 runs in six overs with Charan top scoring with a 13-ball 21. But it was not good enough as BCC reached the target for the loss of four wickets and with three balls to spare. BCC’s Kasim was declared man-of-the-match. In the last pre-quarter-final clash, Ajay Kumar (15, balls) and Nishant (13 not out) were the stars as Indian Club ‘B’ successfully chased the target of 41 for the loss of one wicket and five balls to spare. Dharmesh contributed nine runs. Earlier, BOC were all out for 40 in their six overs with Ubaid (22, 15 balls) being the top scorer. Ajay Kumar was declared the man-of-thematch. The Indian Club Centenary Cup is co-sponsored by BMMI and Alba, powered by YK AlMoayyed (Renault) and sponsored by Trans Auto Rental, Al Maya International, Al Nisr Aluminium, Aref Sadeq Design Consultants, Berger Paints, Booknow.bh, Mark 7 Advertising, MH AlMahroos, Orange Garage Mohd Ahmedi and Sportsland. Pak Royals edge past Riffa Star PAK ROYALS scored a thrilling four-wicket victory over Riffa Star in the Cricket Bahrain (BCL-CBA Division) Diamond League T20 Tournament. Batting first, Riffa Star put up a challenging 154 for seven with Omer making a fine 77. Raees claimed three wickets for 27 runs for Pak Royals. In reply, Pak Royals chased the target successfully for the loss of six wickets and with two balls to spare. Rasika (48) and Usman (46*) were the main scorers while Shahid picked up two wickets for 35 runs. OTHER RESULTS: Fire Link 110-9 (Shujit 22; ASif 4-24) lost to Shahzad Zafar Global Star 114-9 in 19.2 overs (Sattar 20; Jabbar 3-15, Maqsood 2-18) by 1 wicket. Kannada Sanga 258-5 (Abbas 79, Dhanish 55, Kamal 55; Amir 2-55) bt GT Abdullah 77-7 (Rahis 22; Rajesh 3-15) by 181 runs. Pak Hawks 165 (Khalil 46, Khakan 30; Neel 4-30) bt Titans 140-9 (Ansar 59, Siddiqui 38; Nouman 5-14) by 25 runs. Unique CC 175-5 (Siddique 55, Niyaz 42; Junaid 2-19) bt Al Hekma 96 all out (Raheem 21; Shihab 4-20, Ali 3-18) by 79 runs. Awali Camel 200-4 (Vishal 72, Xavier 68; Younis 2-31) bt Young Star 139 all out (Alam 30, Ebrahim 23; Saito 5-9, Sanjay 4-16) by 61 runs. Albi CC 165-9 (Romy 55, Nabeel 36; Rafeeq 3-17) beat Sprite CC 92 all out (Arun 30; Manju 2-9, Nabeel 2-24) by 73 runs. Amguard Matrix 183-7 in 18.4 overs (Shithin 61, Nazar 55; David Hilton 2-28)bt Awali Bapco 182-7 (Surya 43, Amresh 42; Adnan 2-23) by 3 wickets. BKS international club badminton championship set THE BKS Optima International Club Badminton Championship (BICC 2014) begins today at the Bahrain Keralyeea Samajam (BKS) Diamond Jubilee Hall premises in Segaiya. The championship, which will be held in association with the Bahrain Badminton and Squash Federation (BB&SF), concludes on Friday. BKS is organising a team event this year and it’s played in the Sudirman Cup format, which consist of five matches – men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles. Teams from Indonesia, Malaysia and Bahrain will participate in the four-day event. The Bahrain Badminton Academy team consists of Arab champion Jaffer Ebrahim, Heri Setiwan and Mohammed Munawar. The other teams are Djarum Badminton Club and Garuda Badminton Club from Indonesia and One Adademy Badminton from Malaysia. Today’s inaugural function starts at 7.30pm and will be followed by the matches. The total prize money for the tournament is $6,000. Optima Bahrain is the title sponsor and co-sponsors are Viva Bahrain, UAE Exchange, Mohammad Fakhroo and Al Mahroos. Other sponsors are Mark 7, Gulf Fencing, AMG and Maison Interiors.