Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 20 2009:
In the third place's match of the 11th Dr Kanti Mukherjee Memorial Invitation Hockey Tournament 2008-09 organised by the Mani-pur Hockey Association at Khuman Lampak Hockey Stadium, Imphal, played today, Posterior Hockey Academy Manipur (PHAM), Yaiskul beat its opponent and won the third place of the tournament.
Today's match was played between PHAM and South East Youth Organisation (SEYO), Singjamei Wangma Kshetri Leikai.
PHAM defeated SEYO 4-3 and won the match.
Both teams' players played the match with almost equal skills and tactics.
It was hard for each of them to dominate over one another.
They tried at various moments to score goal against one another.
At the same time players of the two teams were busy over defending themselves against the various goal attempts of their opponent team's players.
PHAM got seven penalty strokes and was able to turn out two of it into goal.
On the other hand SEYO got nine penalty strokes but they could turned only one goal out of it.
The first goal of the match was scored in the 16th minute by O Bonium of PHAM from a penalty stroke.
In return of the goal, Th Hemjit of SEYO scored one goal against PHAM in the 21st minute.
In the 31st minute of the match Th Purnachandra of PHAM scored his team's second goal against SEYO.
The first half concluded with PHAM ahead of SEYO by one goal.
In the second hald Th Umashankar of SEYO scored one goal against PHAM from a penalty stroke in the 48th minute.
SEYO's third goal was scored by Kh Hemlet in the 54th minute.
O Bonium scored his second and his team's third goal against SEYO in the 62nd minute of the match.
The first half conlcuded as a drawn match.
In the extra time, Kh Kothajit of PHAM scored the golden goal of his team in the 6th minute and won the match.
K Deveshwar and N Leejohn of PHAM and Th Hemjit of SEYO were issued a green card each by the referee.