Mohd. Nizamuddin was in impressive form and showed excellent finishing touch scoring five goals in steering Central Railway to a convincing 10-2 victory against Savio Sports Club ‘A’, Andheri in a Men’s first round match of the Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana organised 39th Victor D’Mello Memorial Invitational Rink Hockey Tournament 2020, and played under floodlights at the Gymkhana’s tennis courts late Tuesday evening.
Opportunistic goal-scorer Mohd. Nizamuddin scored five goals in leading Central Railway to a 10-2 victory against Savio Sports Club ‘A’, Andheri in the Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana organised 39th Victor D’Mello Memorial Invitational Rink Hockey Tournament.
Besides Nizamuddin’s fine efforts, his teammates Basawaraj Abhigar and Narhad Bahadur contributed with two each each and Vinod Nair added one as Central Railway cruised to victory. Savio Sports Club reduced the deficit with goals from Carl Patel and Karl Gomes.
Prince Chaurasia was also in fine nick and struck four goals to power Union Bank of India to a facile 10-1 win against Rebels Sports Club, in a second round match. The other goals for Union Bank came from Suraj Shahi and Bhakar N., both netting two goals apiece, while Shakeen S. and Vinod Saini chipped in with one each. Saurabh Mayekar scored the lone goal for Rebels SC.
Later, Mumbai Customs Red posted a comfortable 8-1 win against Revengers Sports Club in another second round encounter.
Leading Mumbai Customs charge was Jayesh Jadhav and Alden D’Souza, both scoring a hat-trick of goals while Iktidar K. and Hemant Gethe scored one each. Revengers SC pulled one back through Moshin Khan.
Results – Men’s (First round): Mumbai Port Trust 6 (Ganesh Patil 3, Nitesh Kamble, Aniket Gurav, Dharampal S.) beat United Bandra 2 (Sidhant Gautam, Akshay Jadhav).
Central Railway ‘A’ 10 (Mohd. Nizamuddin 5, Basawaraj Abhigar 2, Narad Bahadur 2, Vinod Nair) beat Savio Sports Club ‘A’, Andheri 2 (Carl Patel, Karl Gomes).
Second round: India Rush 5 (Pranit Naik 3, Raj Patil, Anuj Singh) beat Western Railway 1 (Amit Gowda).
Ave Maria SC 10 (Vinay Walmiki 3, Vikram Singh 3, Atharva M. 2, Girish Pimpale, Ateesh Shirke) beat Mansi Foundation 1 (Arjun Gupta).
Union Bank of India 10 (Prince Chaurasia 4, Suraj Shahi 2, Bhakar N. 2, Shakeen S., Vinod Saini) beat Rebels SC 1 (Saurabh Mayekar).
Third round: Mumbai Customs Red 8 (Jayesh Jadhay 3, Alden D’Souza 3, Iktidar K., Hemant Gethe) beat Revengers Sports Club 1 (Moshin Khan).