ICF beats Karnakata XI via tie-breaker

Chennai: In an eventful encounter, Integral Coach Factory recorded an 8-5 victory over Karnakata XI in the All India Basheer Ahmed Khan memorial hockey tournament at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium on Tuesday.

The highlight of the contest was the hat-trick by Sathyaraj who scored in the third, sixth and 45th minute.

Lively exchanges

Lively exchanges marked the tie which ended at both teams scoring four goals each at the end of the regulation time.

ICF, however, came off convincingly in the tie-breaker scoring four against the one by Karnataka XI.

Heartlin James slotted the only goal for Indian Bank, which proved the match winner against SAI (Lucknow) in the other match.

The results:

ICF 8 (Sathyaraj 3 (hat-trick), Satish Kumar; Tie-breaker: Sathyaraj, Ramesh Babu, Saravanan, Shyam Kumar) bt Karanataka XI 5 (Aiyappa, Nitin Thimmiah 2, Mudappa; Tie-breaker: Mudappa).

Indian Bank 1 (Heartlin James) bt SAI, Lucknow 0.