Hyderabad, Nov 19 (Agency) Home team SCR beat Army Xl by 3-2, in the opening match on the sixth day at the ‘Gooncha 57th Nehru Senior Hockey Tournament’, being held at the SCR Sports Complex, Secunderabad here on Friday. SCR qualified through the knock out round and exhibited their mettle on Friday to be in contention for a semi-final berth in the tournament. SCR played its last league match against Indian Oil on November 21, they lost to PNB by 4-2, yesterday. Army XL played its last league match here on Friday. They are virtually out of reckoning with losses to SCR and Indian Oil earlier and a draw with PNB. Lovepreet Singh of SCR was named the man of the match. SCR’s coach Tagore Babu said, we are still alive in the competition and hope to win the next match against Indian Oil to enter the semi-finals. However in the second match was played between PNB and Indian Oil.
Both, strong contenders for semi-final berths from Pool ‘A’, drew the match goal less. Both teams did their best to score but found the opponents defence too good to breach. PNB completed its fixtures in the league round with this match, earlier they drew with Army XI 1-1 and beat SCR by 4-2. Indian Oil won their earlier league match against Army XI by 4-1 and have a game against SCR on Sunday. Inderpal Singh, of PNB was named the man of the match. Results: SCR -3 (MG Poonacha – 9th minute – field goal; Lovepreet Singh – 12th minute – field goal & Lovepreet Singh – 36th minute – penalty corner) beat Army Xl – 2 (Sukhdeep Singh Randhawa – 49th minute – field goal & Rajant – 55th minute – penalty corner). Results: PNB – 0 vs Indian Oil – 0.