St. Francis Xavier’s, Vasai and St. Blaise ‘A‘, Amboli shared honours as they played out a thrilling and exciting 4-4 draw in a high-scoring Men’s Open quarter-final league match of Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana Rink Football Tournament 2025 and played under floodlights at the WCG tennis courts on Saturday.
Striker Alymer Gonsalves played the lead role for the Vasai outfit by scoring two goals while teammates Stallone Gonsalves and Mark Carvalho contributed one goal each to secure the draw and earn a point for their team. For St. Blaise the goals came through the courtsey of Joel Fernandes, Danzel Fernandes, Merick Fernandes and Egan Fernandes, all scoring a goal each.
Earlier in another quarter-final play-off match, St. Francis Xavier’s, Kanjurmarg prolific goal-scorer Shoaib Baig scored all the three goals to help his team share the spoils with Our Lady of Health ‘A’, Versova in a tense 3-3 draw. Chris Fernandes, Kavish Davne and Pratik Vapilkar were on target with a goal each for the Versova boys.
Results – Men’s Open (quarter-final league): Our Lady of Health ‘A’, Versova 3 (Chris Fernandes, Kavish Davne, Pratik Vapilkar) drew with St. Francis Xavier’s, Kanjurmarg 3 (Shoaib Baig 3).
St. Francis Xavier’s, Vasai 4 (Alymer Gonsalves 2, Stallone Gonsalves, Mark Carvalho) drew with St. Blaise ‘A’, Amboli 4 (Joel Fernandes, Danzel Fernandes, Merick Fernandes, Egan Fernandes).
Men’s Veteran’s: Maccabi ‘A’ 2 (Martin D’Silva 2) beat NFC Orlem 1 (Alfred Nazareth).
Golden Gunners 6 (Altaf Mansoori 4, Sharad Nashiba 2) beat NY Football Club 1 (Kirk Peter).
I.C. Veteran’s 5 (Effurun Andrews 2, Abbas Ali, Luke Rosario, Mario Dias) beat Ronnie 7s 0.