KEA lift 2nd CETAA KIDs soccer tournament trophy
Nidhin of MACE grabs most promising youngster award
ber. Shoemaker returned seven months to the day after an injury that forced him to have surgery to stop bleeding in his brain. Shoemaker allowed solo home runs to Jed Lowrie and Ryon Healy in five innings of four-hit ball.
Yankees 5, Rays 0 In St Petersburg, Florida, CC Sabathia was sharp in his first start while Ronald Torreyes and Chase Headley both homered as the Yankees earned their first victory this season.
Starting his 17th major league season, the 36-year-old Sabathia allowed three singles in five innings. Five relievers finished the five-hitter.
Most of the offense was supplied by the bottom of the batting order. Torreyes, in the lineup because of a shoulder injury to Didi Gregorius and batting ninth, hit New York’s first home run this season, a two-run drive off Jake Odorizzi in the third that drove Aaron Judge.
Odorizzi was charged with four runs and seven hits in six innings.
Astros 2, Mariners 1 In Houston, Brian McCann and Marwin Gonzalez homered to back a solid start by Lance McCullers and help the Astros to the win.
McCann’s homer off Hisashi Iwakuma put Houston up 1-0 in the third inning, and Gonzalez broke a 1-all tie with his solo shot to left-center in the sixth.
McCullers, slowed by injuries for chunks of last season, allowed one run and struck out seven in six innings. Ken Giles got three outs for his second save.
Rockies 6, Brewers 5 In Milwaukee, Greg Holland earned his second save in two days with Colorado, and Gerardo Parra hit a three-run double.
Holland tossed a perfect ninth for the Rockies, who have opened the season with 8-1/3 scoreless innings from their bullpen. The former Royals reliever is back on the mound after missing the 2016 season following Tommy John surgery.
Parra and Mark Reynolds, a pair of former Brewers, look comfortable back in Milwaukee. Parra’s bases-loaded double made it 4-1 in the third. Reynolds, who is playing first base with Ian Desmond sidelined by a broken left hand, added an RBI double in the fifth.
Tigers 6, White Sox 3 In Chicago, Justin Verlander struck out 10 to match the most by a Detroit pitcher on opening day since Mickey Lolich in 1970 as the Tigers backed him with three home runs.
JaCoby Jones, Nick Castellanos and Ian Kinsler connected against Jose Quintana, and the Tigers sent Rick Renteria to a loss in his debut as White Sox manager. It was Jones’ first career homer. Verlander gave up two runs and six hits in 6-1/3 innings.
Winners KEA with the second CETAA KIDs Football Tournament Trophy.
KUWAIT CITY, April 5: The second inter alumni KIDs soccer tournament conducted by College of Engineering Trivandrum Alumni Association (CETAA) and sponsored by Indroyal Builders with their new venture “The Uptown” at PMG Trivandrum, Hydrotek Engineering Co, National Contracting Company (NCC) and Al-Noori establishments, saw KEA beat MACE 1-0 in a grand finale at Classico Football grounds, Ahmadi on Mar 31, 2017.
The soccer tournament had six Alumni Associations of Kuwait Engineers Forum (KEF) fraternity. The matches were conducted in a league cum knock out format with 3 teams in each pool played against each other during the league stage. The top 2 teams from each pool qualified for the semifinals.
The tournament started with the team line up. The Vice-President of CETAA Manoj Balakrishnan welcomed the participants and the General Convener of KEF Sreekumar G., duly inaugurated the tournament.
In Pool A, KEA topped the group beating TKMCE 1-0 and CET 2-0. CETAA beat TKMCE 3-1 to regain second spot in pool A. Last year champions TKMCE bowed out of the tournament with straight losses to KEA and CET.
In Pool B, MACE topped the group beating TEC 7-0 and held NSSCE to a thrilling 3-3 draw. NSSCE beat TEC 6-1 and booked the second spot in pool B, knocking TEC out of the tournament.
The semifinal matches were of high quality and rose to the occasion. The first semifinal between favorites KEA and NSSCE was a thrilling match. NSSCE took the early lead through their mercurial striker Shahin Sirajuddin (Player of the tournament and Top goal scorer — 6 goals). KEA hit back immediately via Dylan Daniel (Player of the match). The match was evenly poised at 1-1 during half time, and with only 5 minutes to go before the final whistle NSSCE unfortunately conceded a selfgoal and had to crash out of the tournament losing to KEA 2-1.
The second semifinal saw the match between hosts CETAA and last year runner-up MACE. Both teams played their heart out but couldn’t score a goal in the first half. There were some great saves by CETAA goalkeeper Nirosh Mathew (Best Goalkeeper of the tournament) but couldn’t stop the match winning goal from the boots of Ivin Issac MACE lifting the Runners up trophy awarded by KEF General Convener
Sreekumar G.
Georgi (Player of the match).
The final between KEA and MACE was an exciting battle and there were many excellent moves from both teams. Ansel George (Player of the finals) scored the all-important goal and sealed the match for KEA. KEA had many match winners in their side and beat MACE 1-0 in the finals to lift the second CETAA Kids football tournament trophy.
The winners and runners up trophies along with medals were distributed by
General Convener of KEF Sreekumar G., Shyam Mohan and Thomas John.
The most promising youngster award was given to Nidhin Jojan of MACE.
The families and friends witnessed some entertaining soccer by the kids of KEF fraternity, and had a memorable evening. The organizers wish to extend their sincere thanks to all those who offered support including the sponsors for the successful conduct of the tournament.