Continuing with her impressive scoring form, Karen Pais slammed home five goals, including a fine hat-trick, to power Companeroes Sports Club to an authoritative 7-2 victory against Aquila FC in a Women’s League match of the MDFA (Mumbai District Football Association) League 2015-2016 and played at the Karnatak Sporting Association ground, Cross Maidan on Friday.
After Rachel D’Costa struck the opening goal, Karen showed brilliant finishing skills to score five goals in succession before Aditi Shetty netted the seventh and final goal to round off the winning tally. Janhavi Shetty scored both goals for the losing outfit. The former India Under-14 captain Karen had notched up a hat-trick in their 6-0 win against Royal Warriors a couple of days ago.
Earlier, Avigail Pillay scored a brace of goals as MSSA (Mumbai Schools Sports’ Association) rallied from an early 0-1 deficit to overcome Sea View SC by a comfortable 3-1 margin. Anagha Janakiraman got the third goal for MSSA after Ruqqaiya Shaikh had given Sea View an early lead.
Meanwhile, Bandra United enjoyed total domination as they blanked Royal Warriors 8-0. Khushboo Rathod hit the target thrice, while V.K. Shruti Lakshmi and Akanksha Kandalkar, both netted two each and Surbhi Manjrekar got one to complete the tally.
Results – Women’s League: Bandra United 8 (Khushboo Rathod 3, V.K. Shruti Lakshmi 2, Akanksha Kandalkar 2, Surbhi Manjrekar) beat Royal Warriors 0.
MSSA 3 (Avigail Pillay 2, Anagha Janakiraman) beat Sea View SC 1 (Ruqqaiya Shaikh).
Fr. Agnel, Blue 0 drew with Aadhar Prathishthan 0.
Companeroes SC 7 (Karen Pais 5, Rachel D’Costa, Aditi Shetty) beat Aquila FC 2 (Janhavi Shetty 2).