Playing in pouring rains, Jamnbai Narsee girls spearheaded by Samika Bhimani, played well enough to beat Borivali’s St. Lawrence 2-0 to make the last eight in the girls under-17 section of the Subroto Mukherjee Cup football tournament (for Suburban schools) of Maharashtra government’s DSO (Divisional Sports Office), organized and sponsored by Vision Sports Reconnect and Fairplay Sports Management at Francis D’Assisi high school ground (Borivali) ground here today. Both the goals came through Samika in the first half itself.
Samika Bhimani
A goal each by Sanjana Hatangadi, Ananya Thakur and Shubhika Murot, featured in Dhirubhai Ambani (Bandra)’s 3-0 over Kandivali’s Cambridge. With slushy field, the Bandra girls did well enough to dominate most of the time, especially in the first half to notch up three goals, while the second half went goalless with both sides trying their best could not make much headway in slushy underfoot conditions.
.Jamnabai Narsee’s under-14 boys too had a fruitful day as they got the better of Ryan International (Goregaon) 2-1, while a hat-trick by Gerald Barretto highlighted St Dominic Savio’s 4-0 win over Children Welfare Centre (Versova). St St Lawrence (Kandivli) handed IIT (Powai) 8-0 drubbing in a thoroughly one-sided tie.
Samika with her team members
There will be no matches on Saturday and Sunday at this venue. All the girls under-17 and boys under-14 quarterfinals will be played on August 1 and 2.
Results:: (St. Francis D’Assis ground, Borivali):
GIRLS (U-17): (Pre-quarterfinals): Dhirubhai Ambani (Bandra) 3 (Sanjana Hattangadi, Ananya Thakur, Shubhika Nurot) bt Cambridge (Kandivali) 0. Jamnabai Naree Int (Juhu) 2 (Samika Bhimani 2) bt St Lawrence (Borivali) 0.
BOYS U-14 : (Pre-quarterfinals):
St Dominic Savio (Andheri) 4 (Gerald Barretto 3 (Hat-trick), Owain D’Souza) bt Children Welfare Centre Versova) 0. St Stanislaus (Bandra) 1 (Saurabh ayekar) bt Vibgyor (Goregaon) 0. Pawar Public (Bhandup) 2 (Adityua Pawar, Manomay Kumbhat) bt St. John the Evengelist (Marol) 1(Avril D’Souza).
St Lawrence (Kandivali) 8 (Vishal Pandey 2, Yash Gawre, Sarthak Rane, Harh Limbachaiya, Raghav Dutta, Jatin Patole, Anurag Tawe) bt IIT Campur (Powai) 0. OLPS (Chembur) 2 (Akhilesh Barataraj, Solomon Jordon) bt St. Anne’s (Malad) 0. St Lawrence (Borivali) 4 (Nihar Modi 2, Smit Challa, Raj Ghorpade) bt Udayachal (Vikhroli) 0. Jamnabai Narsee (ICSE, Juhu) Aarhan Choudhary, SiddharthKonkar) bt Ryan Int. (Goregaon) 1 (Sanskar Kakkar).