28th Nehru Junior Girls State Level Hockey : Senapati suffer heartbreaking losses to IW and Bishnupur
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 28 2022:
5 field goals from Unacco School's N Daina help Imphal West secure a 12-0 win over Lao Radiant Senapati at the ongoing 28th Nehru Junior (U-17) Girls State Level Hockey Tournament 2022 organised by Directorate of YAS.
Unacco School took the lead early on with Daina scoring the opening goal in the 2nd minute of the game.
Two other goals, one each from Basanti and Nganthoibi gave Unacco a 3-0 lead by the end of 1st quarter.
Unacco added 2 more goals, one each by Pumima and Silvia, taking the lead further to 5-0 by the end of 2nd quarter.
By the end of 3rd quarter Unacco was 7-0 ahead with Silvia adding two more goals.
Daina showed extreme agility in the last quarter where she added 4 goals including a superb conversion of a penalty comer while Sonika added another goal to seal the match 12-0 in their favour.
In another match played between Young Pioneer's Imphal East and Brilliant Academy Thoubal, the later took the lead in the second quarter with opening goal scored by Henthoi in the 16th minute of the game, however Young Pioneer's Bidyaluxmi equalized the score as she made no mistake in converting a penalty comer in the 19th minute of the game.
Brilliant Academy again took the lead in the 34th minute of the game in the 3rd quarter only to be equalized and then took lead with back to back goals in the 37th and 38 th minute of the game by Young Pioneer's.Young Pioneer's maintained the cool and managed to end the match with a 5-3 win over Brilliant Academy.
Young Pioneer's Imphal East also defeated RK Sanatombi Jiribam 4-1 in another match played today.
Lao Radiant Senapati also suffered another heartbreaking loss at the hand of Thaimei Guiganpou Bishnupur as they went down 0-8 to the latter today.
3 field goals from Bishnupur's Eleena aided the team in securing the win.