MUMBAI, Aug 22: A goal each by Majeed Quereshi and Edwin D'Souza helped Our Lady School (Dadar) defeat St Mary A ISC 2-0 at the MSSA-Castrol Azad Maidan today.With this win, OLS entered the quarter-finals with 12 points in the Colgate-Palmolive sponsored Inter-Schools under-12 Division II C football league.
Majeed put the Dadar school ahead in the middle of first half when his curling shot found the roof of the net. OLS made a number of inroads afterwards but could not get the second until the latter part of second-half. Edwin D'Souza's forceful strike off a melee gave no chance to the St Mary goalkeeper.
St Mary's B also lost, to Antonio D'Silva by a solitary goal.
The all important goal came late in the second-half when St Mary's goalkeeper dropped the ball and Akshay Khamkar made no mistake.
Results
At St Francis D'Assisi (Borivli)
Under-12 II A: Vidya Vikasini 3 (Rishi Pillai 2, Lopes Agenllo) bt Our Lady of Remedy (Kand) 1 (Yash Tanna); IIA: St Francis D'Assisi (Bor) 2(Anthony WIlfred, Hardip Rajput) bt Swami Mukhtnanda 0; III-G: Holy Cross (Mira road) 0 drew with Gokuldham (Goregoan) 0; St Joseph (Orlem) 2 (Ashutosh Pai, Monish Patel) bt Jamnabai Narsee (Juhu).
MSSA-Castrol Schools Sports Centre, Azad Maidan
12 I B: Don Bosco (Mat) A 1 (Lyle D'Souza) bt OLPS (Chembur) 0; 12 I B: St Mary SSC 2 (Keith D'Lima 2) bt ANZA (Byculla) 0; 12 I D: Campion School 1 (Lorenzo Vidalpolch) bt St Joseph's 0; OLS, Dadar 2 (Majeed Qureshi, Edwin D'Souza) bt St Mary's ISC A 0; 12 II B: Dr Antonio D'Silva (Dadar) 1 (Akshay Khamkar) bt St Mary's ISC B 0; III B: GD Somani 2 (Janish Suratwala 2) bt St Xavier's Boys Academy 0; III B: St Joseph's Colaba 2 (Sanoj Sashidharan, Yarad Gandhi) bt Greenlawn's (BP);III L: Smt PG Garodia 0 drew with Holy Cross (Kurla) 0
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