Mumbai: Yash Kapadia strike in the 33rd minute, eanbled Bombay Scottish, Mahim to edge out Dhirubhai Ambani International (BKC), 2-1 to book their place in the final of the MSSA under-10 inter-school football torunament, at the Azad Maiden, here on Tuesday. In the final slated to be held on February 7, they take on The Cathedral And John Connon School, Fort who scored a solitary goal win over St. Stanislaus, Bandra.
Scottish and Dhirubhai dished out good game of soccer, as the teams were locked 1-1 half way through the encounter. In the 33rd minute, Yash Kapadia found the back of the net which turned out to be match-winner. Results (semi-finals): Bombay Scottish, Mahim: 2 (Siddharth Bharath 15, Yash Kapadia 33) bt Dhirubhai Ambani International School, BKC: 1 (Rohan Trehan); The Cathedral And John Connon School, Fort: 1 (Niall Goghavala) bt St. Stanislaus School, Bandra: 0
Linekar to lead state football team
Striker Linekar Machado will lead the 20-member Maharashtra team in the West Zone leg of the Santosh Trophy football championship to be held in Solapur from Ferruary 7. The state team is clubbed in group-B along with Gujarat, Rajasthan and Dadra Nagar Haveli. In the opening match Maharashtra meet Gujarat on Friday and then take on Dadra Nagar Haveli on Sunday and play against Rajasthan in the last league match on February 12.
The team will be accompanied by Ritesh Inumula (Nagpur), as the coach while Irenio Vaz Sachin Narsappa, U Banerjee, Yashkumar Agarwal (all from Mumbai) as technical director, assistant coach, manager and physio, respectively: The team was selected after the probables were put through a strenuous selection process under the supervision of Head coach Ritesh Inumula (Nagpur), Assistant coach Sachin Narsappa (Mumbai) and Technical Director Irenio Vaz (Mumbai).
The team
Linekar Machado (captain; Mumbai), Rohan Fasge, Rahul Kadlag (both Pune); Owais Khan, Mohammad Ghulam, Rahul Neware, Sagar Chintala (all Nagpur); Dion Menezes, Dhurwesh Nijap, Mrunal Tandel, Jayesh Kadam, Aman Gaikwad, Rohan Shukla, Vinod Pandey, Arif Shaikh, Al Azhar Delhiwala, Leander Dharmai (all Mumbai); Sanket Salokhe (Kolhapur); Vickey Datey (Amravati); Onkar Maske (Solapur).
Tarun Sporting hold Customs
Mumbai Customs and Tarun Sporting shared honours as they failed to break the dead lock in goalless encounter in a group-A league match of the 2nd Late Shri Vishwanath Anchan Memorial Veterans’ Football Tournament, at the Karnatak SA ground, Cross Maidan here on Tuesday. Tarun Sporting had also drawn goalless with defending champions Air India in their opener. The outcome of the final group match between Air India and Customs on Thursday will decide which team advances to the semi-finals.
Earlier, Ordnance Factory, Ambernath and Rudra Football Axademy shared the spoils as they played out a 1-all draw in an exciting Group-D league match. Karnatak SA, the third team in the group had defeated Ordnance Factory 3-1 on Monday. In the first match of the day, Central Railway were locked in a goalless stalemate with Tiger Foundation in a Group-C encounter.
Results (group A): Mumbai Customs 0 drew with Tarun Sporting 0; Group-C: Central Railway 0 drew with Tiger Foundation 0; Group-D: Rudra Football Academy 1 (Vishal Nair) drew with Ordnance Factory, Ambernath 1 (Nobert Rodrigues).
ONGC outplay Century Rayon
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) struck form in the second session to outplay Century Rayon coasting to a 3-0 win in an Elite Division match of the Rustomjee-MDFA League 2018-2019 and played at the Cooperage football ground.
Results – Elite Div: ONGC 3 (Enock C 2, F. Lalmuanpuia) bt Century Rayon 0.
Sanika shines in RR victory
RR Education Trust’s Sanika Chalke (101) scored an impressive century to help her team post 135 and later claimed six wickets as their school went on to beat CNM High School Juhu by 100 runs the U-16 Manoramabai Apte cricket tournament at Islam Gymkhana here on Tuesday.
Brief Scores
SM Shetty HS: 39 (12.5 overs) S Naik (9-3) lost to St Francis Xavier HS: 40 (6.2 overs) by 10 wkts; RR Educational Trust: 135-2 (15 overs) S Chalke 101) bt CNM School: 35 (11.3 overs) S Chalke 6-18, P Dharamshi 4-19) by 100 runs; St. Columba School: 202-0 (15 overs) Tushi Shah 126, Saloni Kushte 54) bt Jamnabai Narsee HS: 35 (13.2 overs)