Formidable Don Bosco High School (Matunga) encountered a strong challenge from a determined Don Bosco International (DBI), Matunga, but managed to score a  winner at the death and snatch a narrow 1-0 win in the final of the Utpal Shanghvi Cup boys’ under-14 knockout MSSA inter-school football tournament at Cooperage on Tuesday.

Adair scores winner

Adair D’Souza, 13, the left winger tapped in the all-important winner in the 40th minute to secure the win. The MSSA under-14 first division champions Don Bosco dominated play from the start, but the International schoolboys put up a dogged display and defended stoutly to cut off the repeated raids from the marauding rival attackers.