Big wins for MEIRA, MPSC
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 18 2015:
MEIRA, Bashikhong humbled YCPA, Chandel 7-3 while MPSC thumped COSMO, Wangkhei 6-3 in Wednesday matches of the Dr Kanti Mukherjee Memorial Hockey Tournament at Khuman Lampak Hockey Stadium.
Th Tompak was the hero for MEIRA in the victory slamming three goals in a row.
His goal came in the 27th, 38th and 40th minutes.
On the other hand, N Sunil put his team in the scoresheet in the 21st minute, after which MEIRA scored another two goals in the next four minutes through W Roshan (24th) and Kh Athouba (25th) to take a 3-0 lead.
Thereafter, Tomba completed his hattrick to take MEIRA's tally to six while S Sanjoy took advantage of an opportunity to round off the score in the 57th minute.
For the losing team, T John scored a brace (35th and 48th minutes) after N Santoshkumar 's strike had opened the account in the 31st minute.
The Chandel based team squandered all of their five penalty corners while MEIRA obtained two penalty corners and converted one.
In the second match, the policemen capitalized on good finishing off their penalty corners, converting three out of six, to romp home with full points.
P Adeb put them ahead within 60 seconds and minutes later slammed the third goal for his team, one minute after Th Birjit scored from a penalty corner in the 9th minute.
S Tarunkumar scored a field goal in the 17th minute while two penalty corners culminated in goals in the 20th and 52nd minutes with S Ravi and P Jupiter giving the final touches.
For COSMO, the goals came from K Johnson (8th minute), P Rahul (57th) and S Sanajaoba (58th) .