St Joseph emerge victorious

MUMBAI: Don Bosco High School, Matunga thrashed St. Joseph High School, Malad 21-0 in the league match of the Boys u-16, of the MSSAMumbai Indians Annual Inter-School Hockey Tournament, 2013-14, played at the MHA Mahindra Stadium, Churchgate, here on Monday.

Schneider Andrade and Pierre Noronha scored four goals each, Aidan Dacosta and Rosenberg Gabriel scored three and Bryce Miranda, Aradhya Deolekar, Marc D’Souza scored two, while Troy D’Souza scored one goal. RESULTS: Boys u-16: St. Anne’s High School (Malad) (2) (Kevin Fernandes 2) bt St. Paul’s High School (Dadar) (0); St. Stanislaus High School (Bandra) (10) (Earl Almeida 3, Aaron D’Mello 3, Eli Rodrigues 1, Afzal Ahmed 1, Lemuel Mergulhao 1, Kevin Barnes 1) bt St. Theresa (Bandra) (0); Children Academy (Malad) (2) ( Yash Pitwa 2) Beat St. Andrew’s (Bandra) (1) (Aziz Shaikh 1); Don Bosco (Matunga) (21) (Schneider Andrade 4, Pierre Noronha 4, Aidan Dacosta 3, Rosenberg Gabriel 3,Bryce Miranda 2, Aradhya Deolekar 2, Troy D’Souza 1, Marc Dsouza 2) bt St. Joseph Sec. (Malad) (0). Athletics Federation of India (AFI) president Adille Sumariwalla Monday clarified that a confusion in the eligibility rules led to the selection of overage athletes for the ongoing second Asian Youth Games in Nanjing, China.

Sumariwalla told IANS that AFI went by the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) rules whereas the organisers applied the rules set by Olympic Council of Asia (OCA).

"In this case we had to go by IAAF rules according to which athletes born post1996 were eligible. Moreover, the organisers issued visas to the participants knowing fully well the age mentioned in their passports. But only after reaching there we came to know of the criteria applied by the organisers -- those born between 1997 to 1999