Dominating right from the word go, St. Lawrence (Borivali) outplayed Juhu’s RSB Vidya Mandir 3-0 to storm into the Boys under-14 quarterfinals of the Subroto Mukherjee Cup football tournament (for Suburban schools) of Maharashtra government’s DSO (Divisional Sports Office), organized by Vision Sports Reconnect and Fairplay Sports Management at Francis D’Assisi high school ground (Borivali) ground here today. Raj after scoring the opening goal in the midway into the first half, against called the shots as he scored twice in the second half.
Andheri’s Rajhans Vidyalaya, after holding fancied Ryan International CBSE goalless, surprised them by beating them 3-2 via tie-breaker.While Malad’s St. Annes thrashed Andheri’s Gyan Kendra 4-0 with a brace from Wasi Sayyed.
Inspite of heavy outfield, Riya Tank played a stellar role as Bandra’s MMK junior college’s scored a creditable 3-0 win over Lilavati Podar ISC in the girls under-17 section. Riya scored once in each half while Vidhisha Sawant completed the tally.
Results:: (St. Francis D’Assis ground, Borivali): GIRLS (U-17): (Pre-quarterfinals): MMK Jr College (Bandra) 3 (Riya Tank 2, Vidhisha Sawant) bt Lilavati Podar ISC 0. (H.T. : 2-0).
BOYS U-14 : (Pre-quarterfinals): St Anne’s (Malad) 4 (Wasi Sayyed 2, Russel Correia, Kyran Ferriera) bt Gyan Kendra (Andheri) 0. OLPS (Chembur) 2 (B.Anantha, Aryan Gupta) bt Oxford (Kandivli) 0. St. Lawrence (Borivali) 3 (Raj Ghorpade 3 (Hat-trick) bt RSB Vidyamandir (Juhu) 0. Udyachal (Kandivali) 1 (Rishiraj Bhosale) bt Rustomjee Int. (Dahisar) 0. Gokuldham (Goregaon) 2 (Ishan Deb 2) bt St. Blaise (Amboli) 0. Rajhans Vidyalaya (Andheri) 3 (Bhaumik Raj, Ashley D’Souza, Siddharth Salgaonkar) bt Ryan Int. CBSE (Kandivali) 2 (Pranav Padye, Ayush Bhagwat) via tie-breaker.