India: Western Railway, Indian Oil in last eight stage
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April 17, 2003
The Times of India
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MUMBAI: Local outfits Western Railway and Indian Oil made it to the quarter-final league stage with contrasting wins in the 41st Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament at the Mahindra Stadium on Thursday.
Western Railway pipped Tamil Nadu Eleven 6-5 via tie-break, after leading 2-0 at half time while Indian Oil crushed South Central Railway, Secundrabad 7-2, after leading 3-2 at the breather.
Earlier, in the morning international Dhanraj Pillay starred in his team Indian Airlines 6-0 win with the first hat-trick of the tournament.
In the evening, Shivendra Singh gave Railwaymen the start in the sixth minute when he converted the only penalty corner for his team while Gurusev Singh increased the lead in the 16th minute with a field goal.
Tamil Nadu did well to come back into the match in the later part of the match. First they got a penalty stroke which was converted by defender Rathakrishnan in the 56th minute and then centre half Divakar scored a field goal to restore parity.
In the tie-break Gurusev Singh, skipper Chandrapal, Anand Sondkar and K S B Shanta Kumar scored for the winners while Rajneesh Chaturvedi pushed over.
For the losers Natarajan, Yuvaraj and Jagath Jothi were bang on target while skipper Thirumalvelavan and Rathakrishnan missed.
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