UPSA seal Jr Girls Football League crown
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, February 06 2022:
UPSA (Pukhao) inflicted a heavy 10-0 defeat on ESU (Wangkhei) to win the Baby Suchitra Khuraijam Memorial Junior Girls Football League at YWC Ground, Thambalkhong, on Sunday.
N Henarita made the most of the match by scoring seven goals.
She fired in five of her 7 goals inside 24 minutes.
Henarita started off with a quickdouble (3rd, 8th) before she struck in a treble (13th, 15th, 24th) in the space of 11 minutes.
Then Lhingboikim converted twice in the 26th and 40th minutes to stretch their lead to 7-0 as Dhanapiyari made it 8 0 in the 31st minute before Henarita took charge of the rest, adding a double (31st, 58th) to round off her and team's collection.
UPSA, YWC and AMMA all finished with six points but the Pukhao girls emerged the winners of the competition as their Sunday's emphatic victory against ESU made all the difference.
YWC finished runners-up and AMMA claimed the third place.
The tournament was organised by Imphal East District Football Association.