Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 18 2009::
In today's first semi final match of the 11th Dr Kanti Mukherjee Memorial Invitation Hockey Tournament 2008-09 organised by the Manipur Hockey Association at Khuman Lampak Hockey Stadium, Imphal, MPSC won and entered final.
The first semi final match today was played between Manipur Police Sports Club (MPSC) and Posterior Hockey Academy Manipur (PHAM).
MPSC dominantly played the match and defeated opponent team PHAM 7-2 to win the first semi final and enter final.
Players of MPSC played the match with skillfull tactics and tried to score goals against PHAM from the very beginning of the match.
The first goal of the match was scored in the 4th minute of the match by P Adeva of MPSC.
He scored the goal from a penalty stroke.
In their hot pursuit to equalise the score position PHAM's Amarjit scored one goal against MPSC in the 13th minute of the match from a penalty corner.
N Goswami of MPSC scored a goal against PHAM in the 38th minute from a penalty corner.
The third goal of MPSC was scored in the 40th minute by S Rabi.
In the very next minute Th Birjit scored his first goal of the match against PHAM in the 41st minute.
In the 54th minute of the match, N Leejohn of PHAM scored his team'd second goal against MPSC.
P Adeva scored his second and his team's fifth goal in the 55th minute.
The sixth goal of MPSC was scored by S Rabi in the 66th minute of the match.
P Adeva scored his third and the last goal of the match against PHAM in the 70th minute of the match.
No players of both team scored any further goal against one another till the end of the match.
Players of PHAM found it hard to match the skillfull players of MPSC and lost the match to MPSC.
S Tarunkumar and M Premchand of MPSC and A Jotin of PHAM were issued a green card each by the centre referee.
P Priyojit of MPSC was also issued a yellow card for his unsporting behaviour during the match.