SAI sails into quarterfinals

By Our Special Correspondent

KOLKATA, APRIL 1: Sports Authority of India (SAI), Eastern Centre, booked a place in the quarterfinal league of the Indian Oil Servo 106th Beighton Cup hockey tournament here on Sunday. SAI beat Corps of Signals 4-2 at the CCFC ground to join the four seeded teams.

In the other matches of the day, Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC) shocked Bombay Customs by the odd goal in three while Calcutta Customs eliminated Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, by the odd goal in five. Both the winners moved into the pre- quarterfinals.

SAI boys, putting up a brave display against Signalmen from Army, scored all the four goals through penalty corner. Despite losing five of its boys from last year's team, this SAI side showed remarkable maturity and scored first in the 10th minute through Manoj Kujur.

CoS reacted strongly by equalising the advantage four minutes later through Prem following a penalty corner.

SAI went up in the 30th minute through Atul Tirkey before halftime and got the insurance goal in 53rd minute through Edmond Kerketta.

N. S. Salaviya reduced in the 58th minute but SAI scored its fourth goal in the 66th minute through Manoj Kujur.

CESC struck through Albert Tete (penalty corner) and Anil Maity in the 16th and 46th minutes respectively as Bombay Customs got the lone goal in the 18th minute through Savio Naik. CESC will take on ONGC in the pre-quarterfinals on Monday.

Calcutta Customs shot ahead in the 20th minute thanks to Satinder Singh and got the second goal two minutes inside the second half through Ayaz Ahmed's penalty stroke conversion.

R. Dang got Tata Steel's first reducer in the 40th and T. Barla got the second in the 55th.

In between Rajender Singh got the third goal for local team in the 46th minutes.

Calcutta Customs will clash with CISF in the pre- quarters tomorrow, while in the other pre-quarterfinal match, Sikh Regimental Centre, Ramgarh, will meet South Central Railway.

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