CONTINUOUS rains since last couple of days and slushy field on which the ball hardly moved, forced District Sports Office (DSO) to decide Subroto Mukherjee Cup matches via shoot-out at St Francis de Sales College ground on Friday. The final of the Under-15 boys category between Bhavan’s Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Trimurti Nagar and SFS School, Sadar was also postponed. The ground condition got worst with every passing day and with division tournament dates approaching, DSO authorities decided to conduct matches via penalty shoot-out to find a district winner. Meanwhile, the division-level tournament, scheduled to be held at Wardha, was also put forward and now will be held from August 3 starting with Under-17 girls event. On August 4, the Under-15 boys matches will be played while on August 5, Under17 boys encounters will he conducted. On Friday, out of 15 scheduled matches, 14 were decided via tiebreaker while one was walkover. It was a total loss of players who train for these matches for days and months but could not get to show their skills due to unplayable conditions. On Saturday, all the matches will be decided via shoot-out. Results: Quarter-finals: St Claret, Butibori (Gaurav Jivtode, Saksham Uike, Tanvesh Kamble) 3 bt Era International, Besa 2 (Reyansh Khandare, Rishabh Pancheswar); K John, Saoner (Vansh Salam, Vinit Dhawangaye, Naman Dongre, Harshal Taywade) 4 bt Modern School, Koradi 2 (Khushwant Bante, Aryan Patil); DPS Mihan (Tanush K, Arnav Uprode, Bhavya Thakur, Ayush Gawande, Harshit Misal) 5 bt Jain International 4 (Tanay Patil, Advay Agrawal, Harsh Verma, Abhupaya Verma);

 

Podar International School, Katol Road (Sandesh Wafdale, Aifaz Sheikh, Shriyansh Thakur) 3 bt Orchid International 2 (Aamir Kazi, Soham Band). Pre-quarterfinals: Era International (Harshad Moon, Devansh Nikhade, Tanish Mishra, Reyansh Khandare, Shardul Thakre, Utkarsh Vishwakarma) 6 bt Saraswati Vidyalay, Koradi 5 (Nayan Mardi, Francis Hansda, Suman Hansda, Raj Singha, Samuel Murmu); K John, Saoner (Naman Dongre, Vansh Salam, Harshal Taywade, Advay Thombre) 4 bt Delhi Public School, Kamptee 3 (Shashank Singh, Aditya Aryan, Ranvijay Yadav); Modern School, Koradi (Aditya Dhobale, Aryan Patil, Aryveer Tongala, Jash Agrawal, Rudra Bhoyar, Shourya Jangade, Arav Safi, Shakir Ansari) 8 bt MM Rabbani 7 (Musuddique Akmal, Mohd Arqam, Farhan Ansari, Nashit Ansari, Nehal Akhtar, Abdur Rahman, Abdur Raheem); Jain International (Tanay Patil, Advay Agrawal, Rudra Koreti) 3 bt School of Scholars, Wanadongri 1 (Chaitanya Kathane); Delhi Public School, Mihan (Tanush K, Amar Uprode, Bhavya Thakur, Ayush Gawande, Daniel Rohan) 5 bt Ediffy School 3 (Ojavitt Gajbhiye, Abhijeet Yadav, Saurish Khobragade); Orchid International (Kshitij Itankar, Soham Band, Tauqueer Rizvi) bt BVM, Koradi 2 (Yatharth Chatap, Jayash Shende); Podar International w/o DPS, Lava. Under-17 NMC Boys: Swaminarayan (Shivesh Sharma, Dev Wasnik, Sushil Rao) 3 bt Shree Convent 2 (Ishant Thakre, Jitendra Patel) 2; Sunrise School (Priyanshu Pal, Jayant Omkar) 2 bt Shriniwas Public School 0; Bishop Cotton CBSE (Suyash Wane, Arhan Ahmed, Daksh Motghare) 3 beat St Mary’s School 0; Anjuman English School (Saad Ansari, Shadab Khan, Ashad Ansari, Dahiyal Ansari) 4 bt Sri Umiya Shankar 2 (Aditya Berri, Mrunal Aramkar).