IMPHAL, April 29: KHSC clinched the 1st edition Boy’s state level Hockey Tournament at Khuman Lampak hockey stadium by defeating LIZARD in an interesting and exciting final which saw both teams locked at 1-1 at the end of regular time.
Th Henthoiba scored in the 30th minute of play for KHSC before L Mantosh of LIZARD reduced the scoreline to 1-1 in the 52nd minute of play.
The two teams continued with a tie-breaker, however even after the end of the tie breaker the two were levelled at 4-4, with Jinjin of KHSC and N Roheshkumar missing out from scoring for their teams.
Players of both teams failed to score in the first two penalty shootouts of the sudden death; however the third penalty taker M Dhananjoy of KHSC scored, while L Boy of LIZARD failed to score in the sudden death.
The match ended 1(5)-1(4) in favour of KHSC.
Meanwhile in the girl’s final of the same tournament, IDEAL club defeated PHAM by 2-1.
Nirmala scored both the winners for IDEAl while A Geetarani scored one for PHAM. B Saria of PHAM was adjudged the Best player (girls) while K Johnson of LIZARD was adjudged the Best player (boys) player of the tournament.