Mayor’s Cup Inter-School Football: St Xaviers & Jai Bageshwari in semi-final

Jay Bageshwari English Medium School and Nepalgunj St. Xaviers have entered the semi-finals of the Mayor’s Cup inter-school boy-girl football competition being conducted in Nepalgunj.

In the tournament organized by Banke District Football Association with the support of Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City, Jai Bageshwari entered the semi-finals by defeating Dreamland and St. Xaviers St. Thomas on Saturday.

Jai Bageshwari defeated Dreamland 1-0. Jai Bageshwari’s goal scored by Pushkar Saud in the 7th minute of the match was decisive. Saud was the man of the match in this match. He was awarded by Chief of Nepal Television Regional Broadcasting Center Kohalpur Vijay verma and Advisor of Democratic Industrialists Association, Banke Lalit Rauniyar.

In the next match, St. Xaviers defeated St. Thomas by 2-1. St. Xavier’s took the lead in 12 minutes with Pushkar Bhandari’s goal. In 45 minutes, Vipin Khadka scored a goal and increased the lead of the team. St. Thomas’ Nishant Neupane scored in the 55th minute. St. Thomas became aggressive by scoring at the end and wasted the subsequent opportunities and ended up being defeated. In this match, Gent Xavier’s Nishant Shahi became the man of the match. Durga Bahadur Chaudhary, Member of Parliament of Lumbini Province, awarded him.

28 schools have participated in the competition. Nepalgunj sub-metropolitan ward no. The competition is being held at the Anfa Grassroots Training Center of 1. The winner of the competition will receive 21,000 and the runner-up will receive 11,000.