All Kerala Inter college football: It is Nirmala vs St. Xavier’s

Nirmala College (Muvattupuzha) will meet St. Xavier’s (Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram) in the final of the 47th Mar Thoma Trophy
all-Kerala inter-collegiate football tournament at the Mar Thoma College Ground here on Friday.

Nirmala squeaked past Mar Athanasius (Kothamangalam) 5-4 via tiebreaker on Thursday. The teams were level 1-1 at the end of
the regulation period with Nirmala’s Sreemith (34th minute) and MA’s Sreejith (49th) scoring the goals.
In the other semifinal, St. Xavier’s defeated Christ (Irinjalakuda) by a lone goal, scored by Michael in the 47th minute.
The results (semifinals): Nirmala (Muvattupuzha) (Sreemith 34th) bt Mar Athanasius (Kothamangalam) (Sreejith 49th) 5-4 (full
time 1-1); St. Xavier’s (Thumba) 1 (Michael 47th) bt Christ (Irinjalakuda) 0.

Original article on: The Hindu

From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Friday 29 January 2010, restored from the site's 2012 database. Text as originally published.