Sunday, November 08, 2009: Maharashtra State Police and Mumbai Customs registered identical wins over their opponents in the MHA Super League Hockey Tournament played at the MHA Mahindra Stadium, Churchgate.
M.S.Police stunned Indian Navy by 3-2 margin after leading by a goal 1-0 during breather, while Customs down by 1-2 at break time came up with defined performance to edged BEG ‘A’ by 3-2 margin.
Navy & M.S.Police clash it was Navy who dominated the opening session of play time, their strikers missed half a dozen chances, M.S.Police too had some good chances which went abortive, missed chances proved to be Navy’s short coming. M.S.Police shot into lead in the 21st minutes a silly mistage by Navy’s Liaba Singh at the goalmouth as he could not clear the ball at the time Vinod Manugade brilliantly pounced on it and dispatched the ball into the box 1-0.
After resumption M.S.Police continued their brilliant show while Navy working hard for the upperhand, soon M.S.Police added the 2nd goal Vinod Manugade’s second goal too converted indirect penalty corner in the 40th minutes (2-0) down by a brace Navy intensitied their raids but their strikers rued chances up front. However , Ajay Kumar converted a indirect penalty corner in the 54th minutes which enabled Navy to pull back goal 1-2 , 2 minutes later M.S.Police accelerated the lead further on Sandip Nagrukar’s superb scoop from the acute angle stunned the entire Navy’s defence which went into the far net (3-1 ). Thereafter Navy piled up pressure on M.S.Police defence but nothing could be yielded only a goal for the 2nd time was pulled back by Sajit Lakra scoring from close range in the 67th minutes ( 2-3 ).
Mumbai Customs who lost to M.S.Police the other day, today they beat BEG ‘A’ . Customs depleted fielding exact 11 players displayed brilliantly to come back after being down by (0-2 ) at one stage of the match. Savio Nayak ( 34th minutes ) Gyanendra ( 39th minutes ) and Stanley Fernandes ( 55th minutes ) were the goal scorers for Customs for BEG ‘A’ Rohit Dung Dung ( 23rd minutes ) & Alauddin Khan ( 33rd minutes )
Tomorrow’s match
BEG ‘B’ Vs Gr.Mumbai Police