MPSC-C, X-Polo Club to face off in Men's State Polo Tournament
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, April 08 2022:
MPSC-C and X-Polo Club will meet in the final of the 37th Men's State Level Polo Tournament 2022 after their semifinal triumphs on Friday.
MPSC-C, who started the semifinal fixtures, made light work of MPSC-B as S Bimol struck in 5 goals in his side's 10-3 victory.
The first chukker saw the MPSC-C riders take a 3-2 lead courtesy of a double from S Bimol and a single from S Abungcha while Th Ranjit scored both goals of MPSC-B .
In the second chukker, S Bimol and M Jawan collected one goal each to put MPSC-C 5-2 up.
MPSC-B reduced the deficit in the third chukker with a goal from T Pradeepkumar before the C team bounced back with a pair of goals from S Bimol, making it 7-3 .
In the fourth chukker, MPSC-C scored 3 more goals through M Jawan, who scored twice, and T Roshan to close out the contest in style.
X-Polo Club, meanwhile, eased their way to a 10-5 win over CHPC-A en route to the final.
S Atangba scored the bulk of X-Polo's collection, racking up 6 goals.
Both sides were even ly matched in the opening period that saw Leishemba put X-Polo in front before L Thomson found the equaliser for CHPC-A.In the second chukker, X-Polo took a 4-2 lead after A Atangba hammered home a double and P Ojit scored one as O Rozer was the scorer for CHPC.
X-Polo then stretched their lead to 7-2 in the third chukker with Atangba scoring another double and Ojit collecting his second goal.
The match ended in a 10-5 result in favour of X-Polo as Atangba completed his 6-goal salvo with two more goals and Th Jacob added one in the fourth chukker.
On the other hand, CHPC's two goals came through H Muhindro and Th Kaoba.
The final match will take place on April 10 .