Shillong: H Elias HS School lifted both the Under-13 and Under-16 Fr KV George Memorial Inter School Football 2014 trophies on Wednesday.
While the U-16 team defeated Divine Saviour HS School, the U-13s beat St Anthony’s HS School ‘C’ team in exhilarating finals played at the school football ground.
The chief guest on the occasion was Shillong Press Club president David Laitphlang, while Royal Wahingdoh Football Club Managing Director Dominic Sutnga Tariang was the guest of honour.
Others who witnessed the finals and distributed medals and trophies besides Laitphlang and Tariang included MPCC General Secretary James Lyngdoh and St Anthony’s HS School Principal Fr Bernard Pala.
This is the 14th year of the popular inter-school football tournament instituted by St Anthony’s HS School in fond memory of a doyen of sports in the state under whose stewardship as headmaster the school won the Meghalaya’s first Subroto Cup title in 1978.
