Ave Maria raced to the finals as Girish Pimpale scored four goals against SAISA Sports Club in a Men’s Open semi-final match of the Mount Carmel Invitation Floodlit (MCIF) Rink Hockey Tournament-2018 by the margin of 10-4. The tournament has been organised by Carmel Sports Committee and is being played under the floodlights at Mount Carmel Church compound.
Along with Pimpale, teammates Vinay Walmiki and Solomon Alexander contributed two goals each whereas Vikram Singh and Nitin Kumar scored a single goal each. For SAISA, two goals came from Saurabh Bhaydekar and one each from Oriston D. and Smit Devekar.
Ave Maria will lock horns with Sea View SC in the final who managed to win the semi-final by 4-2 against Rebels SC. Karan Kapoor managed to get two goals while Julius Fernandes and Gavin Vandrine netted one goal each, securing Sea View’s victory. Jonathan D’Souza and Enrico Fernandes registered one goal each to their name for Rebels.
In Women’s semi-final clashes, Freunds SC won against Hockey Lovers SC by 9-1 and Western Railway pulled off the victory in a close encounter by 3-2 against Sea View SC.
Women’s (semi-finals): Freunds SC 9 (Meenakshi Agarwal 5, Sharmin Bassha 2, Madhavi Patil, Reshma Mahadik) beat Hockey Lovers SC 1 (Althea D’Almeida).
Western Railway 3 (Th. Ranjita, Riituja S., Jaswinder Kaur) beat Sea View SC 2 (Mamta Passi, Akshaya Shetty).
Veteran Men’s (semi-finals): Rebels SC 7 (Solomon Alexander 3, Errol D’Silva 3, Madan Vishwanathan) beat Kalina Village Boys 4 (Fr. Benhur R. 2, Kingston Reebeello, Royston Jacinto).
Air India 8 (Darryl D’Souza 3, Devinder Kumar 2, Anil Aldrin, Simon Pascal D’Souza, Gavin Ferreira) beat Hockey Dadar 2 (Oswald D’Souza, Nasir Khondkar).
Men’s Open (semi-finals): Sea View SC 4 (Karan Kapoor 2, Julius Fernandes, Gavin Vandrine) beat Rebels SC 2 (Jonathan D’Souza, Enrico Fernandes).
Ave Maria, Dadar 10 (Girish Pimpale 4, Vinay Walmiki 2, Solomon Alexander 2, Vikram Singh, Nitin Kumar) beat SAISA SC 4 (Saurabh Bhaydekar 2, Oriston D., Smit Devekar).