Hosts Catholic Gymkhana dished out an outstanding fighting performance and scored a stunning 4-3 win against formidable U.K. United in a thrilling Men’s Open first round match of the Catholic Gymkhana Rink Football Tournament 2019, played under floodlights at the Catholic Gymkhana’s artificial turf, Marine Drive. The tournament is being conducted under the auspices of the MDFA.
Striker Sakshi Mange struck a brace of goals to guide Athlon FC to 2-0 win against Sea View SC in Women Open first round match of the Catholic Gymkhana Rink Football Tournament .
Aman Meher who struck a brace of goals was the star of Catholic Gym’s win, while his teammates Yash Khanvilkar and Dhiraj Tandel played good supporting roles and contributed with a goal each to secure their victory. United scored through Pratik Koli double strikes one from Riddic Carlo.
Playing confidently, Catholic Gym rocked their fancied opponents’ citadel with two first half strikes to go into the break with a 2-0 advantage. After changing ends, the home side immediately added one more goal to extend their lead before U.K. United finally scored their first goal to cut the deficit 1-3.
The Gymkhana outfit continued to search of goals and struck the fourth goal to consolidate their lead and they then managed to defend their lead despite U.K. United going all out to draw level. United could manage two more goals and crashed out of the competition.
Meanwhile, young enterprising striker Sakshi Mange struck both the goals to steer Athlon FC to a fluent 2-0 win against former champions Sea View SC in a Women’s Open first round match.
Future Stars had a rewarding day, as both their Women’s teams and the Men’s team won their respective matches. Future Stars Pink defeated Speed Stars SC 2-0 and later Future Stars Blue blanked Sellebrity FC-KNFC 5-0 in the women’s competition. In men’s action, Future Stars got the better of S. United 4-1.
Results: Girls’ Open (1st round): Future Stars Pink 2 (Rhea Rodrigues, Saili Kanhat) beat Speed Stars 0.
Athlon FC 2 (Sakshi Mange 2 ) beat Sea View SC 0.
Future Stars Blue 5 (Trevina Fernandes 3, Meenakshi Bhagat 2, Vidisha Sawant) beat Sellebrity FC-KNFC 0.
Men Open (1st round): Catholic Gymkhana 4 (Aman Meher 2, Yash Khanvilkar, Dhiraj Tandel) beat U.K. United 3 Pratik Koli 2, Riddic Carlo).
Future Stars 4 (Abdul Khan 3, Suyog Surve) beat S. United 1 (Joel Pereira)
Shalom United Red 2 (Sushant Jadhav, Sherwyn Chang) beat Maryland United 1 (Jeet Satam).
Shalom United Blue 6 (Sandy Lopez 3, Agnel George, Stalin Pereira, Shashank Lopez) beat Sea View SC 1 (Denzil D.).
Sellebrity FC 5 (Bishow Thapa 4, Olaide Aaron) beat Juhu SC 4 (Elroy C. 2, Jonathan F., Deepak J.).