Goregaon’s Vibgyor sprang a surprise as they held fancied st. Francis D’Assisi goalless at full time and then eliminated them in a tie-breaker to sail into under-14 pre-quarterfinals from group ‘B’ of the DSO’s (Divisional Sports Office)’s Mumbai Suburban (Taluka) Football tournament, organised and sponsored by Vision Sports Reconnect and Fairplay Sports Management at St. Francis D’Assisi ground, Borivali, here today. It was a day with as many as three of the eight matches scheduled were decided on tie-breakers. There will be no matches at this venue on Saturday and Sunday.
The Goregaon outfit next will take on Malad’s Ryan International, who too had to go through some harrowing time before they prevailed over St. Rock’s (Borivali) 5-4 after the regulation period saw both sides locked at 1-1. However, the day’s most exciting tie was between Rustomjee Cambridge Junior college and D.G.Khetan (Malad). Both sides fought tooth and nail all the way before they were asked to resort to the tie-breaker after sharing the honours (2-2) at the end of the allotted time. Even during the tie-breakers it was close call with Rustomjee just managing to pip Khetan 5-4.
Results: (St. Francis D’Assis ground, Borivali):
Group ‘B’: Rustomjee Cambridge Jr college (Dahisar) 7 (Anan Shah 2, Aman Mhatre 2, Ashnit Singh, Ethan Roche, Yuvraj Muchhala) bt D.G.Khetan Int (Malad) 6 (Jude Neware 2, Nishit Macchi, Parth Kapor, Darshit Sarda, Ajay Todi) via tie-breaker 5-4. (Full time: 2-2).
Ryan Int (Malad) 5 (Tanay Sharma 2, Atharva Aslekar, Manav Meht, kran Lokhande) bt Sr. Rock’s (Borivali) 4 (rakesh Rajka, Rakesh Choudhary, Gaurav Indurkar) via tie-braker 4-3 (Full time: 1-1).
Vibgyor (Goregaon) 3 (Ved Soni, Arnav Shetty, Karan Mulchandani) bt St.Francis D’Assisi (Borivali) 1 (Abhinav Michael) via tie-breaker.). Full time:0-0).
Fr. Agnel (Malad) 2 (Santosh Kounder 2) bt Yashodhan(Goregaon) 0.
St. Thomas Academy (Goregaon) 1 (Kishore Phad) bt Ryan Int (CBSC) 0.
St. Joseph’s (Orlem) 2 (Ryan Fernandes, Adityan Andu Tarambel) bt Billibong Int (Malad) 1 (Aditya Chandragiri).
St. Anne’s jr college (Malad) 3 (Jay Kharavi , Nathan Braganza) bt Universal (Dahisar) 1 (Aditya Shah).
CLOCK FOR TUESDAY
FOOTBALL – 8 a.m. onwards –Boys U-14 matches; DSO-14 Mumbai Suburban tournament, St. Francis D’Assisi ground, Borivali.