Ved School in final

Yashpal made no mistake with the spot kick and that scoreline stayed until the last minute when Manmeet, after a matchful of misses, finally shot an impressive one from top of the box that beat Somvir Ahlawat, the Rai goalkeeper.

Later, a depleted DAV team, with Thursday’s star Navtej Singh and two others staying out due to overage murmurs, it took a while for the forward line to get into sync.

But thatwas sorted out soon enough, and Harish Chander alongwith Ravinder Kundu struck a good tandem. Kundu moved in on his very first chance early on to set up a 1-0 lead. Saini School hit back with a superb header by Ravinder Kumar to equalise. Dinesh Sharma provided relief for DAV before half-time with a neat grounder to make it 2-1. And even as the DAV tempo rose and the Saini boys let up, Harish, in a final burst, ran round the ball and nudged it to Kundu who smashed in the last blow.