MUMBAI, Sept 13: Seventh Day Adventist, Madanpura won the Inter-Schools football under-14 Division III title, sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive, when they upstaged Jamnabai Narsee, Juhu 3-1 in a shoot-out at the Mumbai Schools Sports Association’s (MSSA) ground, Azad Maidan today.
Earlier, in St Anthony, Vakola also were lucky to win 4-3 via tie-breaker against Anza, Byculla to claim the third place in the same division.Despite better ground conditions today, none of the four teams on display were impressive.
In the summit clash, the game was most confined to the middle. Adventist were attacking constantly but the Jamnabai defence comprising Deval Amin, Navzar Granee and Jimish Joshi stood equal to the task.
On a counter attack, Adventist striker Waseem Ansari stole a ball from the Jamnbai defence and almost fetched a goal for his team. However, his left-foot grounder sped inches away from the goal-post.
With both teams failing to score in regulation time the game spilled over to the tie-breaker. ForAdventist, Faisal Ansari, Mudassir Shaikh and Zaid Ansari converted while Nandi Siddartha was the only one to find the target for Jamnabai.
The script was the same in the hard-lines too. No goal was scored till full-time resulting in the Vakola team emerging successful in a shoot-out.George Lawrence, Chandan Nair, Prashant Shinde scored for the winners while Aaron D’Souza, Fahin Shaikh and Sahil Khan found the net for Anza.
Results: At Savio, Andheri: Our Lady of Remedy A 3 (Roy Fonseca 2, Nitesh Jami) bt Jamnabai Narsee 0.
At Stanislaus ground, Bandra St Andrew’s A 0 drew with St StanislausAt Azad Maidan: Don Bosco A 2 (Pablo Rodguiers, Harmeet Singh) bt St Lawrence 0; OLPS, Chembur 0 drew with St Xavier’s; St Mary’s ISC A 1 (Nervon D’Mello) bt Don Bosco B 0; Bombay Scottish 1 (Akshay Bhende) bt St Michael’s 0; Campion School 2 (Biyani Aditya, Zaid Kadar) bt Fatima 1 (James Roy); St Stanislaus A 5 (Bradley Tellis 3, Christopher Periera 2) bt Smt PG Garodia 0; St Anthony 4 (George Lawrence,Chandan Nair, Prashant Shinde, Musad Ahmed) bt Anza, Byculla 3 (Aaron D’Souza, Fahim Shaikh, Sahil Khan); Seventh Day Adventist 3 (Faisal Ansari, Shaikh Mudassir, Zaid Ansari) bt Jamnabai 1 (Nandi Siddartha).