DAV begin with a bang

NEW DELHI, September 30: Holders DAV School, Chandigarh, started their campaign with a big 8-1 victory over Modern School, Barakhamba Road, in pool `A’ Super League match of the 13th Limca Soccer Tournament. Harish was the hero of the win, scoring five goals for the winners. Manoj scored a brace while Ashish was the other goal getter for the winners.

Mount St. Mary’s thrashed Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan, Jaipur, 9-1 to register the biggest win of this year. The highlight of the match was a hat-trick by Shikhil Suri. Ballas Bastin (4), Grish Ojha (2) were the other marksman for the winners.

Army Public School, Delhi, put up a good fight before going down 2-4 to st Alloysis School, Jabalpur in the Pool `C’ match. Ravindran and Amit scored a brace each for the winners while the Rahul Rana and Dushyant netted a goal each.

St Joseph School, Tamil Nadu, who are runners up in 1995, collected full points from their pool `D’ match against Frank Anthony Public School, winning the tie 3-0. S Guga Hasan (2) and T Suman Babu were the goal scorers. Tamil Nadu boys could have won by the bigger margin but failed to do so due to poor marksmanship.