St. Blaise ‘A’, Amboli and St. Paul’s ‘B’, Dadar succeeded in winning their respective Men’s Open third round encounters by narrow margins in the 45th Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana Rink Football Tournament 2025, and played under floodlights at the WCG tennis courts on Wednesday night.
The Amboli team put up a brave fight to record a fighting 2-1 win against St. James, Virar to move ahead. Egan Fernandes and Jayesh Sutar were responsible in sealing St. Blaise victory while Kaluram Thapa scored the lone goal for the Virar outfit.
Later in the evening, a determined St. Paul boys showed great character and solid fighting qualities to overcome Our Lady of Health ‘A’, Sahar by a 6-5 scoreline in a tense and thrilling encounter.
Leading St. Paul’s charge were strikers Lance Fernandes and Ayush Shetty both scorinf two goals each. Teammates Ayush Malcolm Blakely and Melroy Niddi chipped in with one apiece to round-off the winning margin. A fighting Our Lady of Health scored through a brace of goals from Rajiv Yadav and one each from the efforts of Shafan Solkar, Imran Shaikh and Shoaib Khan.
Results – Men’s Open (third round): Our Lady of Fatima, Vasai 5 (Seaon D’Souza 3, Karan Kumar 2) beat Our Lady of Fatima, Vidya Vihar 4 (Chris Godve, Arjun Singh, Trasnwer D’Mello, Samrat Bhangre).
St. Blaise ‘A’, Amboli 2 (Egan Fernandes, Jayesh Sutar) beat St. James, Virar 1 (Kaluram Thapa).
St. Paul’s ‘B’, Dadar 6 (Lance Fernandes 2, Ayush Shetty 2, Malcolm Blakely, Melroy Niddi) beat Our Lady of Health ‘A’, Sahar 5 (Rajiv Yadav 2, Shafan Solkar, Imran Shaikh, Shoaib Khan).
Men’s Veteran’s 40+: I.C. Royals Red 2 (Hamza Ansari, Naresh Pardeshi) beat Athletico De Senors 1 (Karun Vaz).
Youngstars, Madh Island 2 (Sandesh Koli, Kishore Bamhania) beat Thunderbolts ‘B’ 0.
Men’s Veteran’s 50+: Ronnie’s 7s 5 (Agnelo D’Silva, Silroy Vaz, Llewellyn D’Souza, Karun Narang) beat Athletico De Senors 1 (Bharat J.).