Army XI nail ONGC

Army XI looked in command from the start and, despite a couple of late goals from ONGC, held on to pick up their second win in as many matches at the KSHA stadium on Monday.
Olympian Ignace Tirkey gave Army XI the lead in the fifth minute. After being awarded a penalty corner, Chitranjan Singh pushed the ball to Lakra. Lakra powered the ball towards an unguarded Tirkey, who deflected the ball to sound the board. Lakra continued to tease the ONGC defence and scored in the 29th minute from just inside the semi-circle off Rommel Singh’s defence-splitting pass. Two minutes after the break, Chitranjan guided the ball to Lakra, who smashed it past ONGC custodian Kamaldeep Singh for his brace. Army XI rounded off their scoring in the 52nd through Jerum Kujur.Dharmender pulled one back for ONGC in the 57th minute and Pramod completed the scoring in the 69th minute.

DYSS lose again
In the day’s second match, IOCL consigned DYSS, Karnataka to their second defeat, scoring a comprehensive 5-1 victory. The scorers for IOCL were Inderjit Chadda (31st), Prabhjot Singh (37th, 51st), Deepak Thakur (44th) and Arjun Anjit (53rd). Aiyappa (50th) scored the sole goal for DYSS.