Pune: Ghorpuri Young Ones needed tie-breaker to break the deadlock in beating Commandos FC 4-2 in the Senior Division match, in the 19th Guru Tegh Bahadur Football Tournament in progress at College Of Engineering Ground on Thursday.
Meanwhile, fancied Deccan XI stormed into the quarterfinal with a 2-1 win over Green Box Chetak ‘A’ in the Super Division match.
Yash Pathare (5th) opened the scoring early on before Ritwik Bhardwaj made it 2-0. Chetak scored the consolation goal through Aniket Devi in the 67th minute.
Strikers in final
Subhod Lama (18th) opened the scoring and Amit Rawat (40th) rounded off the tally as Strikers FC beat Valley Hunter 2-0 and made it to the final.
Results:
Strikers 2 (Subodh Lama 18th, Amit Rawat 40th) bt Valley Hunter 0.
CMS Falcon 2, 4, 2 (Aniket More 4th, Karan Gopinath og 63rd; Harshad Lunawat, Gitesh Mulchandani, Sujit Nair, Mayur Patil; Aniket More, Anand Vinod) bt Fatima XI 2, 4, 1 (Zain Shaikh 40th, Vijayan Arvind 61st; Ruben D’Souza, Rahul Govalkar, Aniket Pawar, Omkar Sharma; Zain Sharif).
GOG FC 2 (Ishwar Kshrisagar 4th, Kartik Raju 38th) bt Roopali Sports Club 1 (Harshad Rakshe 7th).
Deccan XI ‘A’ 2 (Yash Pathare 5th, Ritwik Bhardwaj 12th) bt Green Box Chetak ‘A’ 1 (Aniket Devi 67th).
Ghorpuri Young Ones 0, 4 (Pradhu Bhandari, Vishal Angirwal, Ruturaj Patil, Mayur Awale) bt Commandos FC 0, 2 (Daniyal Chetti, Agner Pillay).