JN Petit, St. Thomas, Sinhagad Springdale, City International and SNBP Rahatni qualify for knockouts
Sinhagad Springdale duo Shrinivas Bhadane and Varun Makam along with SNBP Rahatni’s Nishil Pawar scored by the many and left a glimpse of the future rising on the second day of the inaugural Godrej Properties-Pune FC ‘The Futsal Cup 2015’ at the Freekick Turfs in Balewadi.
At the end of the day, six teams JN Petit High School (Group A), GG International (Group B), St. Thomas High School (Group D) Sinhagad Springdale, Ambegaon (Group H), City International School (Group K) and SNBP, Rahatni (Group P) joined Millennium High School, Vikhe Patil Memorial and Infant Jesus High School in the knockout stages.
On a day filled with goals, the star of the day was undoubtedly Shrinivas Bhadane of Sinhagad Springdale, Ambegaon. The youngster struck five times in their first round 8-1 win over SNBP, Yerawada and then followed up with a six goal effort against Pawar Public School, Magarpatta to take his tally to eleven and top the goalscorer’s chart.
In the meantime his teammate Varun Makam made the move up the top scorers chart netting eight in the same two games as Sinhagad moved into the knockouts. Interestingly, Sinhagad’s 12-1 win over Pawar Public was the biggest of the competition till now.
The standout performance in the afternoon session came from SNBP, Rahatni’s Nishil Pawar who scored nine times, four against Ornellas and five against The Orbis School, Mundhwa, to send his side into the knockouts. The youngster thus moved up to second place in the top scorer’s list.
The second day of the competition also saw increased participation from players in the Under-10 category with a total of seven players finding the back of the net. The youngest of the lot was Pawar Public School, Magarpatta’s Omkar Nagre at 9 years old followed by Rishabh Sharma (Indira National School), Atharva Dake (Sinhagad Springdale, Ambegaon), Abhishek Sarwad (SNBP, Yerawada), Ameya Bhosale (Vibgyor High, Magarpatta), Archit Joshi (Vibgyor High, Balewadi) and Mihir Shelke (GG International).
Interestingly, Indira National School’s eight-year-old striker Arav Sable was the youngest player to feature on Day 2 of the competition.
RESULTS, Day 2
GROUP A
#1: JN Petit High School: 2 (Saaquib Khan 2) b Global Indian International School, Chinchwad (Kushagra Narang)
#2: Global Indian International School, Chinchwad: 1 (Kushagra Narang) drew with Indira National School: 1 (Rishabh Sharma)
#3: JN Petit High School: 3 (Azlan Inamdar 2, Saaquib Khan) b Indira National School: 0
GROUP B
#1: GG International: 5 (Mihir Shelke 4, Aryan Panwar) b Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir: 0
GROUP D
#1: St. Thomas High School: 3 (Omkar Shinde 2, Sohail Khan) b Vibgyor High, Magarpatta: 1 (Umang Mago)
#2: St. Thomas High School: 3 (Omkar Shinde, Yash Bhojware, Sohail Khan) b Orbis Keshavnagar: 1 (Shivam K)
#3: Vibgyor High, Magarpatta: 2 (Umang Mago, Ameya Bhosale) b Orbis Keshavnagar: 0
GROUP H
#1: Sinhagad Springdale, Ambegaon: 8 (Shrinivas Bhadane 5, Varun Makam 2, Atharva Dake) b SNBP Yerawada: 1 (Jabber Shaikh)
#2: Sinhagad Springdale, Ambegaon: 12 (Shrinivas Bhadane 6, Varun Makam 6) b Pawar Public School, Magarpatta: 1 (Omkar Nagre)
#3: Pawar Public School, Magarpatta: 4: (Rishi Nale 2, Siddhant Mahajan, Samarth Tupe) b SNBP, Yerawada: 1 (Abhishek Sarwad)
GROUP K
#1: Vibgyor High, Balewadi: 2 (Archit Joshi, Aryan Khanolkar) b Symbiosis School: 1 (Jay Dabi)
#2: City International: 3 (Balraj Jagtap 3) b Symbiosis School: 1 (Jay Dabi)
#3: City International: 0 drew with Vibgyor High, Balewadi: 0
GROUP P
#1: SNBP, Rahatni: 6 (Nishil Pawar 4, Shantanu Deshmukh 2) b Ornellas High School: 0
#2: SNBP Rahatni: 8 (Nishil Pawar 5, Shantanu Deshmukh 2, Vitthal Chaudhar) b The Orbis School, Mundhwa: 1 (Ayub Ali)
#3: Ornellas High School: 1 (Rudra Kamble) drew with The Orbis School, Mundhwa: 1 (Ayub Ali)
