Don Bosco beat Campion 5-4 via tie-breaker to enter semis

Don Bosco’s Travis Pereira. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

Don Bosco High School (Borivli) held their nerve to defeat Campion School (Colaba) 5-4 during a thrilling tie-break in a quarter-final match of the boys U-16 Ahmed Sailor Dreams Sports Mumbai School Sports Association (MSSA) inter-school knockout football tournament at Azad Maidan on Friday.

The match ended goalless in regulation time and headed into a tie-break.

The Borivli outfit converted all five of their spot-kicks through Marc Fernandes, Travis Pereira, Aksh Naik, Saumil Wadgaonkar and Keyon Bhoye. Campion kept pace with successful penalties from Samuel Tennyson, Rigved Gupta, Darren D'Souza and Cristiano Fernandes. However, Reyaansh Shah missed the final attempt, allowing Don Bosco to book a berth in the semi-finals.

In another quarter-final of the boys U-16 Ahmed Sailor tournament, Don Bosco High School (Matunga) progressed after overcoming Bombay Scottish School (Mahim) 4-1 via tie-breaker in the quarter-final.

Jacob Singh, Jordon Fernandes, Harshal Devele and Naveen Ganeshari converted their penalties for the Matunga outfit. Pratham Singh scored Bombay Scottish's only successful spot-kick.