Panvel’s Pillai College held fancied Rizvi College goalless at the regulation time, but then went on to prevail over Bandra college 4-3 in the tie-breaker to storm into the final ofInter-collegiate football tournament in memory of late Gurdip Singh Anand, being organized at far-flung Al Universal Institute ground at Karjat.
Action during the Rizvi’s semifinal tie.
So too the other semifinals between KMC (Panvel) and Kandivali’s Thakur College. Both fought hard, but failed to break the deadlock at full time. In the resultant tie-breaker, KMC found the net thrice, to Thakur’s two.
Earlier, in the quarterfinals, Rizvi, thanks to brace by Manish Reddy, beat Vile Parle’s MMK 2-0; KMC thrashed RKT (Ulhasnagar) 3-0, Pillai knocked out Hyderabad 4-0 and Thakur (Kanidvali) outplayed Karjat’s Vijay Bhoomi 2-0.
Results : Quarterfinals: Rizvi (Bandra) 2 (Manish Reddy 2) bt MMK 0; Pillai College (Panvel) 4 ( Aryan Negi, Yash Dange, Sujay Lohar and Dishank Kothari) bt Hyderabad College 0; KMC College (Panvel) 3 (Pathmesh Yadav, Rishi Gaikwad, Prasad Naik) bt RKT College (Ulhasnagar) 0; Thakur College (Kandivali) 2 (Rahul Almeda, Lalit Bangede) bt Vijay Bhoom College (Karjat) 0.
(Semifinals): Pillai College (Panvel) 4 (Yash Dange,Sanjay Lohar, Sahil Bhagwania, Aarambh Kanokar) bt Rizvi College (Bandra) 3 (Abdul Larim, Gaurav Solanki, Karan Waghmare) 3- via tie-breaker (Full time 0-0) .
KMC College (Panvel) 4 (Mayuresh Desmukh , Aditya Ankush, Kathik Rao and Chinmay Punia) bt Thakur College (Kandivali) 3 (Rula Almeda, Shivansh Rao , Kaushik) 3. Vie-tiebreaker . (Full time 0-0).