Nikita Popat of JB Petit (left) in action against Little Angels yesterday. Pic/Atul Kamble

JB Petit's round-the-year practice sessions paid off in style.

The Fort school defeated Little Angels (Sion) 2-0 in the group stages of the Nike-MSSA girl's U-16 inter-school football tournament at Azad Maidan yesterday.

"It is our first year so, we wanted to make sure we were fully prepared. Initially, we used to train only once a week.

"But soon we had practice everyday. There's been a lot of improvement since then," said coach Fenny Fernandes.

Results: B-U-16-IV: St Xavier's B (Fort) 7 (Bilal Merchant 3, Alpesh Rathod, Umair Shaikh 2, Majid Khan) bt Palm Beach (Neapean Sea Road) 0; NSS Hill Springs (Tardeo) 3 (Shubham Ray 3) bt Baretto HS (Chira Bazar) 0; Army School (Colaba) 7 (Ramdas Kadam 2, Varun Bajaj 2, Rohit Rana, Pappu Singh, Amul Singh) bt New Era (Gowalia Tank) 0; Bombay International (Babulnath) 4 (Rushil Mehta, Krutharth Jhaveri 2,Samarth Gwalani) bt HVB Academy (Marine Lines) 1 (Harsh Rathi)