LT beats Manipur College to win 11th Khagemba Trophy
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 14 2013:
LT, Pheidinga today defeated Manipur College 2-1 in a keenly contested final match and won the champion's tophy of the 11th Khagemba Trophy organised by Kyamgei Youth Pioneer Club (KPYC) at Kyamgei Maning Leikai, Imphal.
The match began with high notes among the players of both teams.
Each of the players were full of hopes and determination to win the match.
LT players did not lost any time in coming straight to the game with pre-planned strategy.
On the other hand Manipu College players took longer to make a strong formation to fight their strong opponents.
Taking advantage of the situation, Dum of LT drew the first blood in the 7th minute of the match.
He scored one more goal against Manipur College in the 13th minute and extended the lead to 2-0 in favour of his team LT.Meanwhile, Manipur College players recovered soon from the two goals and mounted attacks against their opponent in a bid to equalise the score.
As a result, they succeeded in opening their goal account in the 25th minute of the match through a direct hit of Jolly.
With the difference of only one goal, LT players defended themselves well against the attacks of their opponents and at the same time they also kept looking for chances to sneak behind the defence line of their opponents.
Manipur College tried their best to equalise the score but all their efforts went in vain with the final whistle of the match.
LT Pheidinga who won the tournament was awarded a cash award of Rs 30,000 along with the trophy while runner up Manipur College was awarded Rs 20,000 cash award along with the trophy.
Lemba of LT was adjusted Best Player.
The title for Best Scorer went to Jimmy of Manipur College while LT custodian Premkumar was declared Best Goalkeeper.
KSL, Haobam Marak won the Fair Play Team title and Jolly of Manipur College was awarded Man of the Final Match.