St Mary’s, Cathedral & John Connon win U-16 football titles

The victorious St Mary`s ICE U-16 football team

St Mary's ICSE (Mazgaon) and Cathedral & John Connon (Colaba) won the boys and girls U -16 football titles respectively, during the Mumbai School Sports Association's (MSSA) Olympic Day celebration at Azad Maidan recently.

The St Mary's boys overcame Campion School (Colaba) 6-5 via a thrilling tie-breaker to clinch the boys title, while Cathedral beat Canossa High School (Andheri) 4-0 in the girls final.

MSSA chief Fr Jude ARodrigues presents the trophy to the Cathedral girls team

Arius Dadiburjor opened the scoring for St Mary's in the boys final only to see Campion's Vivaan Kawad equalise to take the game into the shootout. In the tie-breaker, Arius, Aaron Alberquerque, Zakaria Motiwalla, Thian Sanjana, Jihaan Mehta were on target for St Mary's, while Vivaan, Samuel Tennyson, Zaid Khisay and Reyansh Shah netted for Campion.

In the girls final, Cathedral skipper Anusuya Raju netted a fine hat-trick while teammate Saisha Damodar added the fourth goal.

Meanwhile, in U-14 hockey, New Bombay City School (Nerul) and St Stanislaus (Bandra) scored dominant victories in their respective finals.

In the girls final, New Bombay City School (Nerul) routed Bai Avabai Framji Petit Girls High School (Bandra) 7-1. Harshika Singh scored four goals while Khushi Mandlik netted a brace and Renuka Jagtap added one to complete the tally for New Bombay City School. Pinaz Vaid pulled one back for Bai Avabai Petit.

In the boys final, St Stanislaus beat Children's Academy 3-1. Xander Vaz struck twice while David Miranda added the third goal for the Bandra boys. Mansh Gada scored the lone goal for Children's Academy.