Gateway to meet Shabab Qatar in final

By Sports Reporter/Doha

Gateway defeated Wanderers Hockey Club in the last match of the league last Friday. In an exciting and hard fought match, Gateway won 3-1.

After a barren first half, which was dominated by Gateway, the champions opened the scoring in the 38th minute through Mohamed Adnan, their guest player from Pakistan.

Former Air India player Savio Nayak equalised in the 54th minute with his 15th goal of the league. Gateway, however, restored the lead in the 61st minute through Greek international Dimitirous.

Gateway star performer Muhamed Waseem increased the tally minutes later to make it 3-1. Wanderers will meet on MHC for the third place.

In an earlier match Shabab Qatar gave their junior and fringe players a full run and they easily overcame DHC-1 by 4-0. Ahmed Jazooly and Muhamed Samiullah scored a brace each. Both the DHC teams completed their engagements in the bottom half of the League with three points each.

In another match MHC trounced United Hockey Qatar 7-0 to stake a place on the podium. Mansoor (3), Azeem (1), Amanathullah (1) and Usman (2) were the scorers for MHC. They completed their league matches with 10 points from six matches, the same as Wanderers.

The finals of the junior tournament featuring students of MES, Birla Public school, Bhavans Public School and Pak Shamaa will take place simultaneously on the adjacent grounds.

United Hockey Qatar had the honour of winning the Haji Gulzaeb Memorial Fair Play Trophy by completing their engagements without any bookings or send offs in the entire tournament.