GCH ‘Strikers’ hit prime form and were on a roll as they cruised to convincing 3-0 wins, in the home and away ties of their Section-L league match against MG ‘B’, during the second week of the Otters-BSAM Snooker League 2018, which is also supported by Z3 Zodiac Clothing and organized by the Billiards and Snooker Association of Maharashtra.
The GCH (Garware Club House) ‘Strikers’ picked the perfect set of players, who put up a confident showing and quite comfortably won their respective frames to quickly wrap up the matches.
Playing away first, GCH made a positive winning start when Sahil Kedia (+50 handicap) got the better of home cuiest Anit Thakkar (+50) 101-94 in the 15-Red singles first frame. Latter, GCH’s doubles combo of Hitesh Kotwani and Darshak Jhaveri (+24) had thing totally under control and easily defeated the Matunga Gymkhana’s doubles pair of Sundeep Doshi and Naresh Sadarangani (+32) 98-32 in the 9-Red doubles tie. Matunga Gym’s seasoned player Arun Agrawal (+25) was unable to arrest the slide as he could not stop GCH’s Varun Bagri (+45) from charging to 101-43 victory in the third frame and seal the win.
In the return home match, GCH tweaked their team a bit, but they still managed to maintain the winning momentum. They were provided with the perfect start by Vivek Shah (+50), who prevailed over Amit Thakkar 114-92 in the opening frame. In the second frame, Hitesh Kotwani along with Darshak Jhaveri (+24) easily defeated Matunga Gym’s pairing of Nitin Kothari and Naresh Sadarangani (+30) 81-37 before Devansh Jariwal (+45) completed the clean sweep with a tight 92-85 win over Dhaval Kenia (+50) in the third frame.
In other matches, last year’s runner-up ECC ‘Elfies Hornets’ won both their ties defeating NIA ‘Cut Miss Hook’ by identical 3-2 margins in Section-I.
In Section-M, PCL ‘Beach Boys’ also had a good successful week as they prevailed over MIG ‘Saints’ – 3-2, 3-0.
Results – 2nd round (Section I to P):
Section-I: NIA ‘Cut Miss Hook’ Vs ECC ‘Elfies Hornets’ – 2-3, 2-3.
Section-J: KG ‘A’ Vs Dadar Club ‘Punters’ – 3-1, 3-0.
Section-K: Dadar Club ‘Stalwarts’ Vs GCH ‘Invictus’ – 3-1, 2-3.
Section-L: MG ‘B’ Vs GCH ‘Strikers’ – 0-3, 0-3.==
Section-M: PCL ‘Beach Boys’ Vs MIG ‘Saints’ – 3-2, 3-0; PJHG ‘Rockstars’ Vs CCI ‘Snooker Kings’ 2-3, 3-1.
Section-N: CCI ‘Snooker Royals’ Vs MHCL ‘Matka Kings’ – 3-1, 0-3; IG ‘Warriors’ Vs MIG ‘Monks’ – 0-3, 3-2.
Section-O: KG ‘C’ Vs GST-GCH ‘Snooker Team’ – 3-2, 1-3; DPCG ‘Scientists’ Vs MHCL ‘Mavericks’ – 0-3, 1-3.
Section-P: BG ‘Phantoms’ Vs CG ‘Q-Force’ – 3-1, 2-3; JVPG ‘Jugglers’ VS NSCI ‘Gunners’ 2-3, 1-3.