PANAJI (GOA)
Super smashers emerged champions of the Senior Badminton festival League championship event organised by Panjim Smashers Club in collaboration with Goa Badminton Association and the Sports Authority of Goa, at Indoor stadium, Campal. Eight teams from across Goa competed in the championship which was played in a League format, featuring 7 doubles matches in each Tie. Sanquelim Shuttlers emerged runners-up while Panjim Panthers and PBC Warriors had to settle for the third place spots. The Challenger’s Trophy for Promising Team was won by South Swingers Team, comprising of players from Quepem, Cuncolim and Canacona centres. GBA members Sandeep Heble, Luciano Soares, Laxmikant Kenaudekar, Deelip Halarnkar, Aniket Shenai and organising Club officials Chinmay Kamat (President), Shashank Desai (Secretary) and Rahul Chandrashekar graced the championship closing. Following are the Festival Championship list of winners:
Championship Winners – Super Smashers
(Floyd Araujo, Karan Naik, Haresh Chari, Shelton Matthew, Daniel Phillips, Srikant Verma, Vasudev Shetye, Sushant Sawant, Viraj Shirwant, Nitin Mayekar, Avita Bandodkar, Aahana Nayak and Noor Gupta)
Runners up – Sanquelim Shuttlers
(Karan Dhavaskar, Sohan Naik, Pranav Nayak, Siraj Wadkar, Soham Somesh Naik, Leo Velho, Pratik Sawant, Kartik Swamy, Siddhesh Wadkar, Sairaj Machnoor, Umesh Naik, Siya Kakodkar and Marina Albuquerque)
Third Place – PBC Warriors
(Darwin Barreto, Dattaprasad Parab, Rahul Srivastava, Shrinjan Ghosh, Soham Vernekar, Jayesh Shirodkar, Tejas Pillai, Anand Rane, Eeshaan Vernekar, Rajaram Kundaikar, Supriya Pai kuchelkar and Rhucha Bhobe)
Third Place – Panjim Panthers
(Bhushan Vernekar, Arnold Rodrigues, Hilary Fernandes, Kashinath Jalmi, Suresh Pujari, Patrick Gonsalves, Manish Pankhania, Mahesh Pauskar, Kishor Raghubans, Shashank Desai, Betty Gonsalves and Sachi Dhavalikar)
Challengers Trophy for Promising Team – South Swingers
(Anar Singbal , Mohit Naik, Aditya Desai, Arnav Desai, Elrich D’ Gama, Sidhant Jalmi, Anmol Desai, Preston Jacques, Prasad Patil, Sandeep Rivonker, Aadita Nayak and Lavina)
