Sports news: Railway Coach Factory Kapurthala defeated Center Railway Mumbai by 6-2 goals.
Sports news: Railway Coach Factory Kapurthala defeated Center Railway Mumbai by 6-2 goals.
Rajnandgaon. In today’s most competitive and exciting match, Petroleum Sports Promotion Board New Delhi, equipped with star players, defeated NCOE Lucknow by 2 goals to 1 and in Pool B, Eastern Railway Kolkata defeated Naval Tata Hockey Academy Jamshedpur by 2-1 goals in an interesting match. In another match played, Railway Coach Factory Kapurthala defeated Center Railway Mumbai by 6 goals against 2 goals and got two points each in the league round of the 80th Mahant Raja Sarveshwar Das Memorial All India Hockey Competition.
On the sixth day of the 80th Mahant Raja Sarveshwar Das Memorial All India Hockey Competition, being played at the International Astroturf Hockey Stadium by Digvijay Stadium Committee, in the first match of the league round, Eastern Railway Kolkata defeated Naval Tata Hockey Academy Jamshedpur by 2 goals against 1 goal. Defeated the match and gained two points. Naval Tata was eliminated from the competition after losing both its matches. In the match, both the teams were looking for opportunities to score goals from the beginning. But Naval Tata got the first opportunity in the 15th minute of the first quarter. While his Manohar Mundu took a 1-0 lead by scoring a field goal, but the second quarter was in the name of Eastern Railway Kolkata, where his Samarth Prajapati scored a field goal in the 22nd minute and brought his team to a 1-1 draw. And in the 26th minute, Abhishek Pratap Singh scored from a penalty corner to give Kolkata a 2-1 lead, this lead remained till the end of the match. Both the teams could not score goals in the third and fourth quarters.
In the second one-sided match played, Railway Coach Factory Kapurthala scored two points by defeating Center Railway Mumbai by 6 goals against 2 goals. In the fourth minute of the match, Mumbai got a penalty kick, which was converted by Vishal Pillai to give his team a 1-0 lead, but after this, in the 12th minute of the match, Simran Jot Singh of Kapurthala made his point. The team was brought to a 1-1 goal draw, but in the second, third and fourth quarters of the match, Kapurthala players played aggressive hockey and in the 19th and 28th minutes of the match, Karan Pal Singh converted a penalty corner to make it 3-3. Had put his team ahead by 1 goal. For Kapurthala, the fourth goal was scored by Gauravjit Singh in the 41st minute, the fifth goal was scored by Rajin Kandulna in the 53rd minute from the penalty corner and Pradeep Singh scored in the 55th minute, bringing the situation to 6-2 and giving a decisive lead. The second goal for Mumbai was scored by Ruben Kedari in the 51st minute.
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board New Delhi, full of star players, won two points in Pool A by defeating NCOE Lucknow by two goals to one in a hard-fought match played at a very fast pace. In the match today, the young players of Lucknow gave a tough fight to the powerful Petroleum New Delhi from the beginning of the match, however, in the 15th minute of the first quarter of the match, Petroleum New Delhi got a penalty corner, on which Angadbir Singh converted the goal and gave his team 1 lead. Had led by -0 goals. In the 23rd minute of the second quarter, Abhinav Singh of Lucknow scored a brilliant field goal and leveled the match at 1-1 before half-time. In the latter half of the game, both teams struggled to take the lead. Meanwhile, in the 40th minute of the game, Angadbir Singh of Petroleum scored a brilliant field goal and put his team ahead by 2-1. The same score remained till the end of the match, although Lucknow players also got opportunities to score goals but they could not succeed.
In today’s match, the man-of-the-match award given by Mr. Rajesh Jain went to Kunjan Topno of Eastern Railway Kolkata in the first match, to Sumit Pal Singh of Army XI in the second match and to Petroleum Sports Promotion Board New Delhi in the third match. The prize money was given to goalkeeper Angadbir Singh.
Today’s match-
First match from 12.45 pm Eastern Railway Kolkata vs Army Sports Control Board New Delhi
Second match from 2.15 pm South Eastern Railway Kolkata Mumbai vs Petroleum Sports Promotion Board New Delhi
Third match from 3.45 pm SAIL Academy Rourkela vs Custom Pune