Last year’s runners-up ECC ‘Elfies Hornets’ launched their campaign with a convincing 3-0 win against D.G. ‘Warriors’ in their opening round match of the Otters-BSAM Snooker League.
The ECC team was well-served by Pramod Pol and Vilas Upsham, both winning their respective frames in the two ties. In the home encounter, Pol (+45 handicap) tamed Hemant Datar (+55) 119-60 in the first 15-red singles frame before Upsham (+45) defeated Deepak Benadikar (+55) 90-78 to extend ECC’s lead 2-0. Later, ECC’s doubles combination of seasoned Farhad Tengra and Aditya Agrawal (+14) comfortably beat Manikandan Chettiar and Sudhir Khare (+35) 85-59 in the 9-Red doubles tie to seal their win at home.
In their home fixture, D.G. Warriors, changed their combination, but they could not halt ECC from racing to another fluent win. ECC, started with Pol and Upsham and they maintained their winning form, which once again set the tone for them to achieve a similar result. Pol (+45) prevailed over Benadikar (+55) 117-65 and Upsham (+40) outplayed Dominic Parappilly (+55) 114-74 in the first two frames. Later in the 9-Red doubles, the ECC pair of Kersie Gandhi and Iqbal Rokadia (+32) rolled to a 86-65 win against Sudhir Khare and Hemant Datar to complete the sweep.
JVPG ‘White Lions’ also started with a bang, defeating MBPT Sports ‘Snookyst’ by 3-0 margins in both the home and away ties.
