Grace on a goal binge

Vidya Vikasini win
Hosts Vidya Vikasini High School A defeated St Xavier’s (Borivli) 4-0 in the under-14 Inter-School Rev Brother Paulus and Brother Columban Memorial football tournament. Agnel Lopes scored all the goals.

Other results
Under-17: St Xavier’s (Vasai) 3 (Deepak Padyar 2, Nitin Soman) bt Jindal Vidya Mandir 2, Vidya Vikasini A 1 (Gagan Singh) bt Our Lady of Remedy 0, St Augustine 3 (Rajesh Gaelota, Luvneet Amin 2, Fredrick Mascarenhas) bt St Xavier’s, Vidya Vikasini B 1 (Sundeep Panicker) bt St Francis (Vasai).

Under-14:Jindal Vidya Mandir 1 (Rajiv Mishra) bt Vidya Vikasini B 0.

Melwyn Vaz dazzles
A fine brace by young Melwyn Vaz helped Central Bank to trounce Union Bank 4-1 in Group Aof the Air-India Millennium Cup football tournament at the Air-India Colony (old) ground, Kalina, today. The winners were trailing by a first-half UBI goal.

After two successive days of drawn encounters, the spectators who had turned out in large numbers were thrilled to witness five goals being scored.

Central Bank scored through Melwyn Vaz in the 62nd and 74th minutes, Chris Fernandes (56th minute) and Caitano Fernandes (penalty in the 89th minute). Chris Fernandes had given UBI the lead.

Melwyn, who showed superb opportunism, was adjudged the most valauble player of the match.

Thatte in lead
Ashish Thatte emerged sole leader at the end of the sixth and penultimate round of the chess tournament organised for selection of the University team at the Sports Pavilion.

Thatte (5 points) defeated G Balaji of SIES in the fifth round and drew his sixth round with Sushant Banerji. Thatte is assured of a place in the University team for the All-India University championship to be held in Barodafrom January 15.

D Ravishankar, Ramkrishna Kashlekar (both MCC), Sushant Banerji, Balaji (both SIES) are on second spot with 4.5 points each.

ERROR REGRETTED: The name of Aaron Pereira inadvertantly appeared as Aaron Fernandes in the story headlined `Golden Aaron creates ripples’ in the issue of December 2 of the Express Newsline. The error is deeply regretted.