BANGALORE: Central Excise entered the quarterfinals of the Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa Memorial hockey tournament with a 2-0 victory over Kodava Samaj here on Saturday.
P.A. Aiyappa scored both the goals in the third and 24th minutes respectively.
HAL outplayed RBI 9-1 in another tie. Tej Babu (two), Nayeem, Rajesh, Naveen Shankar, Nanaiah, Dominic, Chinnappa and Abhinav Gapanapathy scored for HAL, while Rajan struck the lone goal for RBI.
PCTC rallied to hold Karnataka State Police to a 2-2 draw in the third match. After Chandrakumar (seventh) and Magesh (eighth) put KSP in the lead, A.K. Barla slammed a brace (23rd and 40th) to restore parity for PCTC.