Centaur earn a point

MUMBAI, July 24: Goalkeeper U M Salim's great work for Centaur helped them a long way to earn one point in the Harwood League clash against...

MUMBAI, July 24: Goalkeeper U M Salim8217;s great work for Centaur helped them a long way to earn one point in the Harwood League clash against Oil amp; Natural Gas Commission ONGC at St. Xavier8217;s ground, Parel today.

Salim saved two point-blank saves and otherwise gave a confident display as Centaur scored a late goal to share two points and two goals. That ensured Centaur their first point in two games while ONGC, who have four points from a win and a draw, maintained their clean record.

Salim8217;s brilliant save in the 60th minute when he dived to the right and made a desperate save off a shot from Sydney Lewis was a spectacular effort. Seven minutes later, Salim was again in the right position to block out Anthony Gonsalves8217;s meaty right-foot shot from the six-yard-box.

Anthony incidentally scored ONGC8217;s goal, in 12th minute which was reduced by Ramnarayan Nair8217;s 78th-minute equaliser.

Earlier, in the Division II League, Bombay Republicans defeated P D Hinduja 3-0. Sujit Kumar, Ashton D8217;Souza and Shayne D8217;Costa scored the goals.

Elbert excels

Elbert D8217;Silva scored two goals as St Dominic Savio Andheri beat St Xavier8217;s Fort 3-0 in the Inter-Schools football tournament at the Xaverian Ground Parel, today. Plejo Chacko scored the other goal in the under-16 IA match.

RESULTS

Xaverian Complex: U-16: III-B: St Michael Mahim 7 Francis Fernandes 4, Ameet Sharma 2, Savio Vaz bt St Elias Khar 0; Don Bosco Matunga 1 Akshay Darniwal bt St Joseph8217;s Wadala 0; 4-G: St Joseph8217;s Umerkhadi 1 Russel Nair bt Hindi Vidya Bhavan 0.

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U-14: I-B: St Stanislaus Bandra 2 Delano D8217;Souza, Rellin Vaz bt St Mary8217;s SSC 0; Holy Family Ground: U-14: I-A: St Anne8217;s Orlem 3 Adrian D8217;Souza 2, Wilander Pinto bt St Andrew8217;s Bandra 0; Utpal Sanghvi 1 Gaurav Gulati drew with St Dominic Savio Andheri 1 Mathias Langton; II-A: St Anthony8217;s Malvani 1 Malcolm Kolf drew with Our Lady of Remedy 1 Christopher Fernandes; III-E: Kalgidhar Mission 0 drew with Marol Education 0.