St Anne’s HS (Malad) custodian Deon Shetty, 11, stood tall under the bar, making almost a dozen saves, but his school still suffered a 0-3 defeat at the hands of Bombay Scottish (Mahim) in a boys’ U-12 quarter-final of the MSSA inter-school football tournament at Azad Maidan on Saturday.

The gutsy Deon displayed excellent reflexes, fine anticipation and clean collections of the aerial balls as he bravely rushed out and dived at the feet of the rival attackers to deny them from scoring and thereby restricting the margin of defeat. Don Bosco’s (Matunga) most successful coach Leslie Machado was among those impressed, watching the young goalkeeper coolly punch a rasping shot over the horizontal.