Chinai scrape past St Xavier’s

After St Andrew’s won all three league matches to top the pool, Chinai and Xavier, tied with one victory each, faced sudden death. Xavier’s could not afford a draw, as Chinai enjoyed a better goal difference. That propelled them into action as the strapping Prahlad Tanwar’s left-footer, after he had side-stepped his defender, rocked the side post early in the first half.

Another shot at the iron works from the right by Godfrey Francis was all St Xavier’s could achieve as Chinai took charge. A booming 20-footer at the half-time whistlewas tipped over by St Xavier’s custodian Vineet Gangwani, who was to make a few more inspired saves.

The goal came 20 minutes into the second-half when Chinai received a free-kick outside the box after Colin Miranda was grievously fouled. Prashant received the indirect, and his right footer dipped in, past Vineet’s stretched hands. St Xavier’s came close to drawing even but custodian Conrad Correia made a crucial diving save to see Chinai through.

In another match, Rizvi and Mithibai played out a lacklustre goalless draw to qualify from Pool IV.

Results

St Andrew’s 2 (Vinay D’Silva 2) bt KC 0; Chinai 1 (Prashant Thiruthiyil) bt Xavier’s 0; Burhani 2 (Leroy Nunes, Mohammed Siddique) bt RKT 1 (Nishant Nair); Rizvi 0 drew with Mithibai 0.

Golden Boot

The top scorers in the inter-college tournament (goals scored from the super league stage in brackets):

Luciano D’Souza, Rizvi (7), Sydney Mascarenhas, Siddharth (6), Inchen Lanuchuba, Rizvi (4), Omer Ahmed, Maharashtra (4), Amol Khaire,Siddharth (3)

Mary’s in final

St Mary’s SSC, Mazagaon, entered the under-10 boys’ final of the Mumbai Schools Sports Association inter-school football tournament, sponsored by Colgate, at St Stanislaus School today. St Mary’s prevailed over Don Bosco, Matunga 5-3 in the tie-breaker. Later, the school’s under-8 team also qualified for the semi-finals with a 1-0 win over St Mary’s ISC.

Results

Under-10 (semi-finals): Mary’s SSC 5 (Clayton D’Souza 2, Sutara Parashtar, Jaffar Shaikh, Sheikh Mustafa) bt Don Bosco, Matunga 3 (Pablo Rodrigues 2, Varun Shukla) via tie-break (1-1); Quarter-finals: Stanislaus B 4 (Yohan Sethna 2, Nitesh D’Souza, Edwin Fernandes) bt Francis D’Assisi B 3 (Shashank Suvarna 2, Sahil Mehra); Mary’s ISC 6 (Nevron D’Mello 2, Areez Gazdar, Kurt Baptista, Mihir Nerurkar, Devan Dhurandhar) bt Campion 4 (Aditya Biyani 2, Rohan Sethna, Zaid Kadar) via tie-break (2-2)

Under-8 (quarters): Mary’s SSC 1 (Arzan Mistry) bt Mary’s ISC 0; Stanislaus, Bandra A 4(Karan Kapoor 2, Kelron Lewis, Keegan Pereira) bt Andrew’s, Bandra A 0.

Rizvi, Wilson win

Rizvi defeated Bhavan’s 4-0, while Wilson drubbed Chetana 3-0 to enter the fifth round of the Junior College Sports Association inter-college football tournament at Xavier’s Ground, Parel today.

Results (fourth round)

Tolani 5 (R D’Souza, P Nayak, M Dharmesh, A Dias, S Pimenta) bt Khalsa 4 (A D’Mello, U Swami, A Vaz, M Dalvi) via tie-break; KC 3 (Omer Alrafai 2, J Shahnawaz) bt Valia 1 (Ganesh Bhikru); Wilson 3 (R Waters 2, C Mohan) bt Chetana 0; Rizvi 4 (S Pereira, V Noronha, P Zanz, S Kunder) bt Bhavan’s 0

SIES Commerce win

SIES Commerce and Shahani Engineering scored comfortable wins to enter the second round of the inter-college basketball tournament at Indian Gymkhana, Matunga, today. While SIES defeated Vivekanand 42-31, Shahani outplayed Somaiya Arts 51-20.

Results (first round)

SIES Commerce 42 (Sunil Shetty 12, Shreyas Shastry 9) bt Vivekanand 31 (Mayank Jani 13,Shyam Unni 12) HT 20-12; Shahani Engg 51 (Pragnesh Bhanushali 21, D Shreyas 8) bt Somaiya Arts 20 HT 32-16; NM Commerce 28 (SK Rajdeep 10) bt Vaze 19 (Nikhil D’Souza 13) HT 12-10.