SCR edge past Central to enter quarters

Mumbai: South Central Railway, Secunderabad, scored a 1-0 win against Central Railway, Mumbai, in a Pool-B league match of the 53rd All India Bombay Gold Cup hockey championship on Wednesday.This was the second win for the Secunderabad side, who finished at the top of the pool and entered the quarter finals.

Central can grab the second position by defeating Killedar XI of Mumbai in the last pool match on Thursday and join SCR in the last eight.In a far from exciting encounter, South Central managed to break the deadlock in the third quarter by scoring the decisive winner through their industrious forward M G Poonacha, who deflected home a long hit from the right in the 40th minute.

Earlier, Punjab and Sind Bank scored an authoritative 8-2 win against Union Bank of India in Pool-C league match.For the Punjab side, eight different players - Ashish Pal Sharma, Satbir Singh, Harminjit Singh, Ranjot Singh, Navdeep Singh, Santa Singh, Jaskaran Singh and Harmanpreet Singh - scored a goal each.

The local bankmen reduced the margin of defeat with goals from Nitesh Kamble and Nitin Kumar. Punjab and Sind Bank will next meet Bharat Petroleum in the last pool match on Friday.In the first match of the day, Army XI defeated Bombay Republicans 3-0.David Dung Dung, Gurpreet Singh and Sanjay Toppo were bang on target scoring a goal each to complete Army XI's victory. This was Army XI's first match and they take on Indian Oil in the final pool match on Thursday.