Maharashtra ride on Sagar brace

Bedekar gave Maharashtra the lead in the sixth minute before Jayaesh Rane made it 2-0 three minutes later. Tripura fought back through Debraj Jamatia, who reduced the margin in the 13th minute, and then Ashadan Jamatia netted the equaliser in the 27th.

Maharashtra went ahead again through Bedekar in injury time of the first half and they could finally breathe easy when Sagar Khanvilkar returned their two-goal cushion in the 73rd minute to round off the scoring.

Results:

Cluster I: Maharashtra: 4 (Sagar Bedekar 6th, 45+, Jayaesh Rane 9th, Sagar Khanvilkar 73rd) bt Tripura: 2 (Debraj Jamatia 13th, Ashadan Jamatia 27th).

Cluster II: West Bengal: 10 (Sovik Mondal 2nd, 18th, 25th, 45+, Pankaj Moula 9th, 15th, Narayana Das 30th, Dharmendra Singh, 48th, 78th, Lucky Imran 85th) bt Himachal Pradesh: 0.

Cluster III: Orissa: 2 (Sanathan Lohar 13th, Sudam Sorem 32nd) bt Goa: 0; Meghalaya: 4 (Samul Shadf  11th, Victor Shadf 44th, Eudemessanperu 19th, 25th) bt Jammu &Kashmir: 0.

Cluster VII: Punjab: 0 drew Andhra Pradesh: 0; Bihar: 2 (Mohidul Mallick 55th, MD Ejaz 68th) bt Rajasthan: 0.