Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 11:
Meiraa, Bashikhong defeated YAC, Yaiskul 4-2 while MPSC registered a comfortable 6-3 win over SAIRC in the 7th Dr Kanti Mukherjee Memorial Hockey Tournament at Khuman Lainpak Hockey stadium today.
In the 4-2 win of Meiraa in the first match, Th Herojit (ninth), K Chinglensana (18th), Th Tompok (39th) and K Rubi (46th) fired past the Yaiskul custodial while M Surdas (20th) and S Biju (23rd) sounded the rival board.
Later, in the second match of the day, N Sanjoy converted a 12th minute penalty corner to open the police score only to find K Hera equalise for SAI in similar fashion in the 15th minute.
However, P Adeva scored two Successive goals (17th & 50th-PS) to swell the police lead to 3-1 before Ph Khamba narrowed the goal deficit with a 52nd minute strike.
While S Tarunkumar added one more to the police in the 55th Khamba scored his second goal of the match to boost the SAI chances of a comeback.