Bombay Scottish girls, boys march into U-12 finals

Bombay Scottish’s Nizh Kapadia moves with the ball on Tuesday. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar

Bombay Scottish's (Mahim) girls and boys had a successful day as both teams advanced to the U-12 Div-I finals of the MSSA inter-school football tournament. In the girls' semi-finals, Bombay Scottish scored twice in the second half to beat Smt RSB Arya Vidya Mandir (Juhu) 2-0 at Azad Maidan on Tuesday. Later, the Bombay Scottish boys snatched a tense 4-3 tie-breaker victory against St Mary's ICSE (Mazgaon) in their semi-final clash.

The feature of the Scottish girls' win was the brilliance of their hard-working all-round player Nizh Kapadia. She scored both goals - the first in the opening minute of the second session when her angular shot went past the advancing AVM goalkeeper. Then, she showed excellent finishing again by scoring the second in the 33rd minute to knock the fight out of the Juhu girls.

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In the boys' match, Scottish and St Mary's were engaged in a keen tussle, but neither side managed to score in regulation time. In the tie-breaker, Scottish successfully converted through skipper Daksh Garg, Tejas Vadakoot, Aryeh James and Armaan Agarwal. St Mary's managed to score through skipper Aaron Albuquerque, Arius Dadiburjor and Thian Sanjana while Shlok Mehta and Zakariya Motiwala failed to beat Bombay Scottish's substitute goalkeeper Daksh.

Later, Don Bosco (Matunga) scraped past St Stanislaus 4-3 also via the tie-breaker. The Matunga lads scored through Arnav Nair, Harshal Devle, Caleb Dias and Brendon Barretto, while the Bandra boys converted through through Bhargav Dabke, Advait Parab and Daiyaan Shaikh, with Ehsaan Ansari and Craigen D'Mello shooting straight into the Bosco 'keeper's hands.

Other results
Girls' U-12 Div-II: Lilavati Podar (Santacruz) 8 (S Chaubey 6, H Singh 2) bt Ryan Int'l (Goregaon) 0, Green Acres Academy 2 (A Uchil 2) bt Smt RSB AVM (Juhu) 1 (A Pandey), JBCN Int'l (Parel) 1 (A Agarwalla) bt Ryan Int'l (Malad) 0, DG Khetan Int'l 1 (Nishta Jain) bt SVKM JV Parekh International 0. Boys' U-14 Div-II: St Stanislaus 4 (V Goel, A Parmar, J Fernandes, H Shaikh) bt St Anne's 0, Campion (Cooperage) 2 (S Toprani, Harsh Deora) bt St Joseph's (Malad).