Centre-forward Dawood’s hat-trick (23,26,29) helped SJCE, Mysore to register a facile 3-0 win over MICA and enter the quarter-finals in the Mysore City Inter-collegiate Football Tournament for the AFC Cup organised by Athletes Football Club at the University grounds here yesterday.

In the other matches, JSS law College beat Amritha FGC 4-0, while NIE, Mysuru blanked MCM Mysuru 4-0. MRIT beat MIT 3-0 via tie-breaker after being logged goalless at full-time. JSS (Medical) College beat NIE FGC 4-3 via tie-breaker after being logged goalless at full time.

Results: SJCE, Mysore 3 (Dawood 23, 26, 29) bt MICA 0; JSS Law College 4 (Cheops 16, Mboka 19, George 23, Lusu 38) bt Amritha FGC 0; NIE, Mysuru 4 (Nirikshith 7, Isman Syed 12, Rameez 37,  H.R. Chinmay 39) bt MCM, Mysuru 0;  MRIT 3 (Sharath, Wali, Shubham) bt MIT 0 (Full time 0-0, by tie-breaker), JSSMC 4 (Renzin, Afsal, Pranav, Subhankar) bt NIE FGC 3 (Nitin, Md. Adnan, Mir Aarijmd) (Full time 0-0, by tie-breaker).