CRPW down Hotel Centaur

MUMBAI, Oct 6: Central Railway Parel Workshop CRPW beat Hotel Centaur 2-0, in the Harwood League match of the Mumbai District Football As...

MUMBAI, Oct 6: Central Railway Parel Workshop CRPW beat Hotel Centaur 2-0, in the Harwood League match of the Mumbai District Football Association MDFA at the St Xavier8217;s Ground, Parel.

CRPW took the lead in the 31st minute. A pass by Thomas Castellino saw winger Edward D8217;Souza dribble the ball past the Centaur defence and end it up with a powerful right-footer into the net. The match went 1-0 into the breather

The second-half saw a more spirited performance by the railwaymen.

Edward was again instrumental in increasing the lead. A fine pass by him saw striker Samson Elizah deflect the ball into the net

Earlier Samson had missed a penalty when Thomas Castilino was brought down in the dee But the ball hit the post and rebounded to Edward. Edward to had a shy at the net but the ball hit the bar again. Edward took the shot for the second time but punched it out.

After today8217;s match CRPW increased their points tally to seven from as many matches. Centaur have three points from their seven matches.

In a Division I league match for the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Trophy Village Amboli rammed BEST 2-0 Philbert Pereira and John D8217;Souza scored a goal each.

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Borivli Rangers drew Toofan in their Division II league match Both Teams were unable to score any goals.

Customs post winBombay Customs netted four goals to beat Tipu Sultan in the Gulf Oil WIFA, Senior Division league match at the Cooperage, today.

Sunil Sachdev, Nadeem Ansari, Sydney D8217;Souza and Dharmendra Baria scored one each for the winners. Tipu Sultan failed to score.

Centaur soar to victory

Centaur Hotel thrashed Excel Petrobanking 4-1 to win the Parish Football Tournament organised by the Dominic Savio Parish yesterday.

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Prakash Moily scored a brace for the winners and was well supported by Norman DSouza and Selwyn Carvalho who scored one each Jaideep Sarkar decreased the margin of victory for Centaur.

D8217;Assisi mesmerise

The uner-14 and under-17 football teams of the Francis D8217;Assisi High School, representing Mumbai, made a clean sweep at the State Level Football Championships held at Nasik, recently.

D8217;Assisi beat Vidya Vikasini in the finals 6-5 via tie-breaker. Both the teams failed to score at the end of extra-time. Sushant Pawar, Fabian Rodrigues, Amit Dongre and Agnelo Picardo of D8217;Assisi made their way into the u-17 State team.

Ten players of the u-14 squad booked their place in the State team. They are:- Rakesh Kharekar, Frankson Thattara, Vinay Verghese, Savio Pereira, Vicky Verma, Aldrin Monteiro, Liston Fonseca, Nishit Karkera, Ishaq Qazi and Adam Alphonso.

Mahatma, Mithibai win

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Mahatma Chembur thrashed Pillai8217;s VII 20-9 to win the men8217;s event at the XX Mumbai District Handball Championships at the Chembur English Sports Complex, yesterday.Vishal T and Raj Binu netted six times for the Chembur team.

In the women8217;s final, Mithibai outsmarted Cool Cats 13-7. Scorers for Mitibai were Nivedita B 4, Sweta M 3, Shruti J 2, Vandana S 2, Pooja 1 and Amruda N 1.