Anasuya Raju shines as Cathedral storm into final

Cathedral’s Anasuya Raju (left) in action v Bombay International. Pic/Sameer Markande

Cathedral & John Connon (Fort) cruised into the summit round, brushing aside the challenge from Bombay International School (Babulnath) with a 2-0 win in the girls' U-12 semi-finals of the MSSA inter-school football tournament at Azad Maidan on Monday.

Attacking midfielder Anasuya Raju had a hand in both goals. Cathedral skipper Ariana Jalan got to the end of an Anasuya flag-kick from the right to put the ball in the back of the net in the very second minute. Cathedral doubled the lead when Anasuya dribbled her way into the rival box from the left and scored with an angular shot. Bombay International captain Prisha Patel, who has scored 11 goals in four matches, tried her best to lead the attack and take the fight to her opponents, but with no support from the teammates, she couldn't do much.

Earlier, the Cathedral boys (‘B' team) also had a rewarding day as they defeated Bombay Scottish ‘B' (Mahim) 1-0 in an U-12 Div-II match. Nathan DeSouza scored off an on-the-run shot in the 36th minute to seal Cathedral's win.

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Other results
Boys' U-12 Div-II: Rustomjee Cambridge International 2 (Amit Maroo, Dhananjay Kolamkar) bt Bombay International (Babulnath) 0, Campion (Cooperage) 2 (Priaan Kantawala, OG-Dhruv Jain) drew with Lilavatibai Podar (Santacruz) 2 (Kartik Chandani, Aaryan Singh); Arya Vidya Mandir (Bandra) 5 (Ayushmaan Dhawan 3, Utkarsh Worlikar 2) bt ST Aloysius (Bandra) 1 (Chinmay Narsale); Ascend International School 2 (Nirvaan Ansari, Ranvir Chona) bt Vibgyor (Malad) 1 (Yash Garg); VCW Arya Vidya Mandir (Bandra) 5 (Pradeep Lamba 2, Kabir Saxena, Sharvil Utture, Dhiaan Khimani) bt Rustomjee International 0.

Boys' U-14 Div-II: Lakshadham HS (Goregaon) 0 drew with St Mary's SSC (Mazgaon) 0, Don Bosco HS (Borivli) 2 (Aarav Kataria, Joshua Kuriakose) bt Smt RSB AVM (Juhu) 0, St Lawrence (Kandivli) 5 (Prem Shivkumar Mishra 2, Aditya Anil Mishra 2, Tanish Mangesh Mahafil) bt Cambridge (Kandivli) 0.