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February 15: It took nine shots a piece in a nail-biting tie-breaker to provide a finalist to the Boys under-10 event of the MSSA-Colgate...

February 15: It took nine shots a piece in a nail-biting tie-breaker to provide a finalist to the Boys under-10 event of the MSSA-Colgate inter-school hockey tournament at Stanislaus School today. The hosts’ hopes of an all-Stanislaus final — Stanislaus B had already qualified with a solitary-goal win over St Blaise in the first semi-final — was not to be. Amidst high anxiety, Don Bosco prevailed 5-4 over Stanislaus A, after the two teams were tied 1-1 after extra time.

It must have been a great learning experiences for both teams — one had to only see young Randall Gomes’ face to realise that. The Stanislaus boy, wearing a sweatband on each wrist, missed his school’s last shot; only when he saw the Bosco bench rushing jubilantly to congratulate its team did it dawn on him that his school had lost. He raised his hands to his head in disappointment.

Needless to say, the match ran close. Finalists last year, the teams, surprisingly facing each other in the semi-final, were well balanced, and the talkgoing around the stands was the winner would have a waltz in the final.

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Stanislaus went ahead, through the swift Bradley Tellis, after Randall Gomes had reverse stopped and put the ball ahead. Bosco’s reply came in first minute of the second half, through Dhruv Panjwani’s deflection.

The introduction of Cristof Pereira, who worked well in tandem with the promising Keegan Pereira and Rommel Pereira, brought bite to Stanislaus’ attacks. At the other end, Harmeet Singh, Appachu Codanda and Volvino D’Souza spearheaded Bosco’s forays.

The tie-break was tantalising. Bosco custodian Pablo Mascarenhas brought off a few diving saves, but his counterpart Karan Misquitta did likewise. 2-2 after five shies. The sudden death stretched to four more shies, before Volvino D’Souza converted his second consecutive push, while Randall failed.

Earlier, St Joseph, Malad again rallied from a 0-1 deficit to advance to the semi-final.

Other results (SF)

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Boys U-12: St Stanislaus (Bandra) `A’ 3 (Sheehan D’Costa,Floyd Dharmai, Shane Vanshipley) bt Don Bosco, Matunga 0; St Joseph’s Malad 2 (Kunal Sompura, Sudeep Paralkar) bt Our Lady of Remedy (Kandivli) 1 (Craig D’Souza)

U-10: St Stanislaus, Bandra `B’ (Daniel Martin) bt St Blaise, Amboli 0.

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