Don Bosco Oratory Rink Football 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Supermen powers lost due to missing Cruise
Susegad emerged champions in the 12th Don Bosco Oratory Rink Soccer tournament, held at IEAS school premises. Susegad registered a hard fought 2-1 win against a youthful and spirited opponent Team Supermen who missed two of their members Cruise and Merwin in the finals on Tuesday, 22 July 2014 who had to travel for further studies.
It was Susegad Captain Conrad Pinto who put his team ahead in the fifth minute of the game, and it took the opponent just 3 minutes to equalize with a fantastic move dazzling with skillful footwork from Nikhil Dsouza who found his mark keeping Godfrey Aguair totally stunned and dazed without his helmet. Both teams fought tooth and nail in the second half and Supermen could have taken the lead if only their players were on target. It was Vicky Waghamarre who gave Susegad the lead that they wanted, and from there on managed to keep Supermen at bay.
Conrad Pinto of Susegad and Diego Dsouza of Supermen stood strong in the defense, even though the pressure was maintained by both teams. With this win Susegad has now engraved their name on the prestigious DBO rolling trophy along the others .DBO –B/ Big Joe / Urrak/ Fenni / Mumbaikars.
Battle of the soccer spirit fights for 3rd and 4th place and the Goan tasted better than the Russian
Valanky Rodrigues help Urrak 7 down Vodka boys 3 -1 and secure the third place. The first half remained all barren despite of several open chances missed by Urrak 7 which they failed to convert into goals. The oldest player in this tournament Julio Cardoso stood tall and strong in the goal for the Vodka boys. It was Urrak’s Loyed Mascarnehas who gave his team the lead in the second half with a powerful shot from outside the D which deflected off Julio and the ball finding the nets. However the match was played one sided with Urrak 7 missing open chances. Vodka boys also missed one of their star defender Roshan Dsouza and adding to their problems was they had no substitutes; however they managed to hold Urrak 7 to a draw in the first 18 minutes of the game.
Vicky Waghamarre’s valiant 23 run knock and partnership with Bader and James Waghamarre put up a big total to defeat the tournament favorite Team Xtreme – A. Chasing the target Score 61 for a win in 5 overs were all bowled out in the fourth over. During the entire tournament Team Xtreme – A maintained discipline in both, batting and bowling. Star bowlers Sharan/Tanvesz / Iggy and Ryan of Team Xtreme – A , somehow did not perform as everyone expected for the finals. It did not end there as the batting performance was unexpectedly poor and finally pressure got to Team Xtreme – A which resulted in 3 run outs in the third over which made it more difficult for them to achieve the target.
Konkan monsoons rain down Team Xtreme B
In the 3rd and 4th place match the battle was won by Konkan Chargers, beating Team Xtreme – B by 12 runs. It was the batting of Abdul & Wassim with some excellent bowling took the run chase away.
Don Bosco Oratory Kuwait annual Ramadan Sports Mania came to an end on 22nd July 2014. This year’s Ramadan Fest was organized under the leadership of Liston Raju / Philip Duarte and Christopher Fernandes, the organizers and committee members of DBO. Liston looked after the Box Cricket and Philip took charge of the Rink Football. This year’s Ladies Box Cricket was organized under the umbrella Don Bosco Past Pupils Association.
Wish I could have accommodated all the 31 teams for Box Cricket, but because of time factor were compelled to take only 24 teams. It was fun organizing and bringing this sport to life; we changed the batting area making it much more difficult to hit 4’s. The highest run scored was 73, compared to last 2 years where the score would go as high as 112 runs. Next year we plan to have more changes to the rules making the game much more fun and challenging. The committee is considering of streaming matches live on the internet, and other surprises are already planned for next year said Liston.
Mr. Philip who had other plans for Rink Football said that we cannot make too many changes to the rules, however the committee is planning to add more fun and make the game more exciting. 24 teams participated and what we enjoyed was that a lot of young lads have mastered their footwork. I am sure everyone who witnessed the matches this year have seen the transformation from old to young, skills, and swift moves by upcoming stars who made their mark in the arena.
Mr. Christopher who over sees all this events said “This year we achieved something very important and the credit must go to all the participating teams in both Football and Cricket. I am delighted to say that this year the Umpires and Referee decision were respected. Something we have been focusing with our own lads first. To be a true sportsman you first have to discipline yourself to respect your teammates, opponents and Referees. This year I have seen it and that has brought a lot of joy among the committee members. A note of thanks to Indian English Academy School for the use of their premises, Mr. Alec Pinto for capturing the expression with his camera, Don Bosco Oratory for organizing the Rink Football and Box Cricket, the Past Pupils for organizing the ladies Box Cricket this year, Sponsor Rink Football - Expats Properties, Box Cricket – Expats Properties, cosponsored by Sports Direct and Muzanini Exchange and for the Ladies Box Cricket sponsor Bahrain Exchange Company. The lads are looking at adding more events to Ramadan Sports Mania next year to name a few are (i) Dart league (ii) Table Tennis (iii) Box cricket and Rink Soccer for 40 year and above. And accommodate all it will be on first come first basis. More electronic scores and other technologies will be looked at. The DBO and DBPPA would like to thank the IEAS School Management for allotting us an area to create a Hall of Fame both for the school and events organized by DBO and DBPPA. We shall see you all next year said Mr. Christopher and he also mentioned to watch out for the next event called “Lightning Tournament “ which is a mixture of Sports / General Knowledge / Singing etc etc. only limited teams entries would be accepted.
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