Police AC starts off with win

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Police AC and Howrah Union won their respective Coal India 115th all-India Beighton Cup hockey tournament matches at SAI, Eastern Centre, here on Thursday.

Police won 5-0 against Behala SA with goals coming from Abhijit Biswas (2), Kaushik Jana (2) and Santosh Rajbhar. Police AC will take on Calcutta Port Trust next.

Howrah Union defeated Kolkata Union Sporting by the odd goal in three with Jarnail Singh and Surajit Tarafder scoring for the winner and Abhijit Ghosh netting the lone goal for the loser.

Howrah Union will meet Eastern Railway SA in the next round.