It was strange to see Rizvi's super league player Imchen Lanuchuba don the gloves and the No 1 jersey during the tie-breaker. It is routine to see the star player double up as goalkeeper at the inter-school level. But a specialist was warranted during a college game, one thought.

Lanuchuba did not need to do anything spectacular. After captain Sunil Rajak had put Rizvi 1-0 up, Amrish Bhave missed for Chinai, hitting the right post. After that, Rizvi had only to score all five from the spot. Francis Alvares, Lanuchuba, Luciano D'Souza and Harshal Naik ensured they did.

More than Amrish Bhave, it is Chinai's Akshay Rai who will rue his miss in the seventh minute. Chasing a long-ranger down the right flank, Rai caught up with the ball near the right post, withthe Rizvi goalkeeper woefully out of position, after he had misjudged the bounce. Rai only had to stop the ball and place it in; instead, he took a wild swipe and sent the ball out of play.

The only other decisive moment of the match came in the 35th minute, when Francis Alvares crossed from the left, and Luciano headed in. Luciano, last year's highest scorer, was declared off-side.

NM Commerce defeated Khalsa in another tie-break earlier to claim the bronze medal.

Our Lady in final

Our Lady School, Dadar and St Stanislaus School, Bandra entered the under-12 first division final of the MSSA-Colgate inter-school football tournament at Azad Maidan today. While Our Lady defeated Holy Family, Andheri 2-0, Stanislaus blanked neighbours St Andrew's 4-0.

RESULTS

U-12 (Div I, semis): Our Lady 2 (Majeed Qureshi, Columban Noronha) bt Holy Family, Andheri 0; Stanislaus, Bandra 4 (Bradley Tellis 3, Floyd Dharmai) bt Andrew's, Bandra 0; (Div III, PO): Cathedral 2 (Aditya Shankar, NigelAnchees) bt Francis D'Assisi 0 via tie-break (0-0); Joseph's, Colaba 3 (Sachin Anchan 2, Salvador Soares) bt Scholar 1 (Nagori Talha); Sacred Heart, Santacruz 1 (Ashley Fernandes) bt Apeejay, Nerul 0; Anthony's 1 (Edward Colaco) bt Andrew's, Bandra 0.

Xavier's drub Podar

St Xavier's College drubbed RA Podar 10-0 in the second round of the Junior College Sports Association football tournament at Xavier's Ground, Parel today. Sandeep Fernandes helped himself to a hat-trick, while Kevin Tauro (2), Hilaf Khan (2), Avalon D'Souza (2) and Rahul Parkar (1) joined the goalfest.

Other Results: Ambedkar 5 (Prashit Dhabdhabe, Sushant Shinde, Fabian Buthello, Ketan Chandorkar, Mandar Kamble) bt Siddharth Comm 1 (Kaushik Kini); Siddharth Arts 2 (Kiran Saigaonkar, Jeffrey Fernandes) bt R Jhunjhunwala 0; Dr Antonio (Tech) 3 (Anil D'Souza, Lleyton Selwyn, Abhijit Bhave) bt Somaiya Science 0.

Income-Tax win thriller

Income-Tax defeated Western Railway 3-2 in a thrilling senior division encounterin the Gulf Oil Wifa League at Cooperage today. While Dominic D'Souza, Santosh Kadampat and Rajesh Fernandes scored for the winners, Kaushik Pal and Ajay Katwal scored for Western Railway.

New India Assurance beat Fatima Boys 4-0 in a first division match, Abdul Hadi, Shaun D'Souza, Natraj Shetty and Dharmender Baria getting the goals.