Cathedral & John Connon (Fort) and St Mary's ICSE (Mazagon) won their respective boys' U-14 Div I pre-quarter-final play-off matches convincingly in the Mumbai Schools Sports Association-organised inter-schools football tournament at Azad Maidan yesterday. The Cathedral lads struck twice in the final five minutes to record a 3-0 win against Lakshdham HS (Goregaon), while St Mary's produced an impressive five-star performance to tame Don Bosco (Borivli) 5-0.

Cathedral found the going tough and faced quite a lot of pressure from Lakshdham attackers who played aggressively, but lacked ideas and direction and failed to find the net. The Cathedral side, after a hesitant start, finally came good when their energetic striker Kabbir Chawla got the breakthrough. Kabbir intercepted a weak goal kick and quickly poked the ball home past Lakshdham custodian Huzan Sanga who was beaten by a bad bounce of the ball in the 19th minute.