MUMBAI, July 24: Goalkeeper U M Salim's great work for Centaur helped them a long way to earn one point in the Harwood League clash against Oil & Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) at St. Xavier's ground, Parel today.

Salim saved two point-blank saves and otherwise gave a confident display as Centaur scored a late goal to share two points and two goals. That ensured Centaur their first point in two games while ONGC, who have four points from a win and a draw, maintained their clean record.

Salim's brilliant save in the 60th minute when he dived to the right and made a desperate save off a shot from Sydney Lewis was a spectacular effort. Seven minutes later, Salim was again in the right position to block out Anthony Gonsalves's meaty right-foot shot from the six-yard-box.

Anthony incidentally scored ONGC's goal, in 12th minute which was reduced by Ramnarayan Nair's 78th-minute equaliser.

Earlier, in the Division II League, Bombay Republicans defeated P D Hinduja 3-0. Sujit Kumar, Ashton D'Souza and Shayne D'Costa scored the goals.

Elbert excels

Elbert D'Silva scored two goals as St Dominic Savio (Andheri) beat St Xavier's (Fort) 3-0 in the Inter-Schools football tournament at the Xaverian Ground (Parel), today. Plejo Chacko scored the other goal in the under-16 (IA) match.

RESULTS

Xaverian Complex: U-16: III-B: St Michael (Mahim) 7 (Francis Fernandes 4, Ameet Sharma 2, Savio Vaz) bt St Elias (Khar) 0; Don Bosco (Matunga) 1 (Akshay Darniwal) bt St Joseph's (Wadala) 0; 4-G: St Joseph's (Umerkhadi) 1 (Russel Nair) bt Hindi Vidya Bhavan 0.

U-14: I-B: St Stanislaus (Bandra) 2 Delano D'Souza, Rellin Vaz) bt St Mary's (SSC) 0; Holy Family Ground: U-14: I-A: St Anne's (Orlem) 3 (Adrian D'Souza 2, Wilander Pinto) bt St Andrew's (Bandra) 0; Utpal Sanghvi 1 (Gaurav Gulati) drew with St Dominic Savio (Andheri) 1 (Mathias Langton); II-A: St Anthony's (Malvani) 1 (Malcolm Kolf) drew with Our Lady of Remedy 1 (Christopher Fernandes); III-E: Kalgidhar Mission 0 drew with Marol Education 0.

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