Rugved brace in Thane’s victory
Mumbai, February 12:
Striker Rugved Koppiker struck a brace of goals to lead Thane District to a 2-0 win against Usmanabad District in a junior boys’ league match of the Maharashtra State Inter-District Football Championships 2017-18, and played at Palghar on Monday. Striker Rugved netted the first goal in the 30th minute and four minutes later scored the second to secure Thane’s win.
In other matches, Nagpur District blanked Jalna District 6-0 and Jalgoan District outplayed hosts Palghar District 4-0.
Results - Nagpur 6 (Ravi Roka 2, Simon Gladwin 2, Mohammad Tauseeque, Aman Thaware) bt Jalna 0.
Thane 2 (Rugved Koppiker 2) bt Usmanabad 0.
Jalgoan 4 (Dhananjay C., Tejas Shinde, Hriday Ahuja , Nikhil Sonawane) bt Palghar 0.