Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 20 2008:
MANIPUR TEAM had a drastic win in today's matches against Meghalaya and host Tripura in the 1st North East U-16 Boys Hockey Tournament 2008 held at Agartala of Tripura.
The first match was played between Manipur and Meghalaya.
The match was a one sided match.
Manipur beat Meghalaya 8-0 .
S Sanjitkumar of Manipur opened the scoreboard by scoring one goal against Meghalaya in the 8th minute of the match.
He was followed by L Sitaljoy with a goal in the 18th minute.
Just after three minutes, N Rajesh scored one goal in the 21st minute adding one more in the goal account.
Later L Sitaljoy scored two more goals in the 28th and 47th minute of the match.
S Honda also scored one goal in the 40th minute of the match.
Again in the 51st and 56th minute of the match L Sitaljit showed his ability by scoring two more and tallied his goal account to five and his team's goal account into eight.
While no players of Meghalaya could not scored any goal against Manipur and they had to lost the match in the hand of Manipur.
The second match was played between Manipur and host Tripura.
The match too was won by Manipur after defeating host Tripura 5-1 .
L Sitaljoy of Manipur opened the scoreboard in the 25th by scoring one goal against Tripura.
He was followed by N Rajesh with one goal in the 27th minute.
The third goal of the match was scored by S Honda in the 40th minute.
In the second half L Sitaljoy of Manipur one again scored two successive goals in the 46th and 48th minute of the match.
In the meantime, players of Tripura could make only one goal against Manipur.
They had to lost the match in the hand of Manipur.
The two matches was dominantly played by Manipur team.
Both the opponent teams could not face the players of Manipur team.