Holy Spirit Institute crowned U-14 Subroto State champions
Holy Spirit Institute, Margao beat Fr Agnel High School, Pilar, 7-5 via tie breaker to emerge State winners in the Boys U-14 Subroto Cup inter-school football tournament organised by the Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs (DSYA) at Duler Stadium, Mapusa on Monday. At the half time the score was 1-1.
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The defending champions began the play on an impressive note as they dictated pace from the middle and soon broke the deadlock in the third minute through Arnold Oliveira, 1-0. Ten minutes later, Shreyash Naik scored the equaliser for Fr Agnel. The Holy Spirit team displayed great composure keeping possession of the ball for long spells. Crossing over in the 37th minute, Nathan Rodrigues gave Holy Spirit the edge once again through an assist off Arnold, 2-1. In the 49th minute Shreyash secured his brace and equalised for the Pilar side. Both the teams were locked at 2-2 at full time and hence the tie-breaker was applied. Holy Spirit converted their penalties through Nathan, Arnold, Bhuvan Parwar, Anish Gadar and Oscar Braganza. Sherwin Abranches, Tarak Kandolkar and Atmaram Jadhav converted for Fr Agnel.
Goa's Niraj Saripalli (2107 rating) put up an impressive performance in the second round of the 55th National Challengers Chess Championship to continue his rich form in the tournament, held at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on Sunday.
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Published Aug 15, 2017, 4:24 AM IST
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Panaji Niraj is now in joint lead with two points after his second round win over Pathak Vivek Kumar. Goa's Ameya Audi (2287 rating) is also unbeaten so far, but the lad played out a draw after an intense battle against Sachin Malik. Ameya now moves on to 1.5 points. After a narrow defeat in the first round, Devesh Anand Naik -- another Goanin the fray -- put up a stellar performance in the round two as he got the better of Gaurav Roy to open his points tally with a point.…
