Sarthak Kerkar of Parle Tilak Vidyalaya (Vile Parle) and Nidhi Kulkarni of Omkar Cambridge International School (Dombivli) won the boys’ and girls’ U-16 titles in the MSSA inter-school carrom tournament at St Sebastian High School (Chembur) on Saturday.

Playing confidently and striking the coins with a high-level of accuracy, Sarthak easily defeated schoolmate Atharva Arkar 22-0 in the best-of-six boards final to emerge champion.