Blue Star enter semis by edging out Renown
BERNARD PERERA
Blue Star Sports Club from Kalutara made their way to the semi-finals
of the Old Bens SC organised Golden Jubilee Soccer Championship, beating
Renown SC by one goal to nil at St. Benedict’s College ground, Kotahena
yesterday.
Blue Star SC were in possession of the ball most of the time during
the first session.
They missed three goal scoring opportunities when their strikers
failed to find the target.
Renown SC who defeated the Kalutara team on earlier occasions took
things easy and paid the penalty in the first session. Both teams failed
to score and at ‘lemons’ it was a blank score sheet.
The second session began with the Renown team combining well to go on
the attack. But all their attempts were thwarted by the custodian from
Kalutara.
In the second half the Blue Star coach made a few changes bringing in
Mohamed Irshad in place of M. Fouzan. Irshad played his heart out
sending in good balls to the front runners.
In the 73rd minute Sanjeeva Seemon manning the right wing lobbed a
neat pass which was headed to the goal by Irshard. This put the Kalutara
boys in the lead.
Renown tried everything to find the equaliser but failed in their
attempts and went down fighting by one goal to nil.
Priyanga Pieris controlled the game.
ZAHIRA WIN
On Saturday in the schools segment in the same tournament Zahira
College - the strongest team recorded a comfortable 8-0 victory over
Ananda College, Colombo to enter the semis.
M. N. M. Fazal under 19 national schools player displayed his skills
once again scoring four goals for the winners.
RATNAM VICTORIOUS
Ratnam Sports Club had to fight all the way to win after the tie
breaker by eight goals to seven against Saunders Sports Club.
Saunders were in front at the half way mark 2-1. Goals being scored
by Sanjaya Pradeep (6th minute) and Tharanga (16th minute).
The goal for Ratnam during this period was netted in by Mohamed
Issadeen (10th minute).
During the second half Saunders failed to score but Kasun Jayasuriya
got the equaliser in the 67th minute.
At the final whistle the scores were level and the tie breaker was
introduced where thirteen kicks were taken.
Ratnam managed to net in eight while Saunders could get only seven
goals which resulted in Ratnam SC entering the semis. |