RESULTS: Division One -- Tengku Mahkota Ismail SS Juniors 1 Malacca
High School 1, UniKL 8 Andersons 0, Petaling Jaya CC 2 USM 1.
Division Two: Group A -- Nur Insafi 0 Kedah HA Juniors 5, STAR 1 1Mas Penang 0, Perlis 6 Matrix 2.
Group B: Bukit Jalil SS Juniors 2 Kuala Langat 3, Politeknik KPT 6 Tunku Besar Secondary School 1.
PETALING Jaya City Council (PJCC) edged Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) 2-1 for their fifth consecutive win to top Division One of the NSC-Milo-MHC Junior Hockey League yesterday.
However, the win was not an impressive one, as PJCC were hardly in the match as they toyed around with USM at the second pitch at the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil.
At the adjacent pitch, UniKL Young Guns hammered Andersons 8-0 to keep pace with PJCC.
USM took the lead off Rahimi Iskandar in the 24th minute, but Shahiram Zali gave PJCC a lifeline with a penalty corner conversion in the 27th minute, while Ahmad Iqwan nailed the winner in the 50th minute.
The UniKL goals were scored by Haziq Samsul (sixth), Syafiq Zulzairin (18th), Fitri Ismail (23rd, 26th), Izzat Ikmal (48th), Hafif Elkan (59th), Ashran Hamsani (63rd) and Azrul Hasbullah (67th).
"We only have two more matches against Malacca High School (Saturday) and SSTMI (Sunday), and for sure, we need to keep up the winning momentum to snatch the League title. There is little room for mistakes for the next 140 minutes, and I feel my players are up to it," said PJCC team manager Zanal Abidin.
However even though PJCC won both their matches this wekend, it was a struggle as they came back from one goal down to beat Andersons and USM 2-1.
"The eight goals were a super show from my players, but goals no longer count as we need to win all our remaining matches and hope that the leaders (PJCC) drop points when they play SSTMI.
"But if PJCC beat SSTMI, the league title will be all theirs, and we will be fighting for the second spot," said UniKL team manager Faiz Isa.
DIVISION ONE
P W D L F A Pts
PJCC 5 5 0 0 9 4 15
UniKL 5 4 0 1 24 5 12
SSTMI 3 3 0 0 16 0 9
Malacca HS 4 1 2 1 7 15 5
Anderson 4 1 1 2 6 13 4
SSTMI Jnrs 5 1 1 3 6 16 4
USM-MSSSPP 3 0 0 3 2 8 0
BJSS 5 0 0 5 3 12 0
GROUP A
P W D L F A Pts
Kelantan 5 5 0 0 19 5 15
Kedah HA Jnrs 7 3 3 1 14 6 12
STAR Ipoh 5 3 1 1 5 7 10
1Mas Penang 5 3 0 2 12 5 9
Perlis 4 2 1 1 15 9 7
Anderson Jnrs 4 2 1 1 9 6 7
Matri 5 1 1 3 5 13 4
SERATAS 5 0 1 4 1 10 1
Nur Insafi 6 0 0 6 1 20 0
GROUP B
P W D L F A Pts
KLSS 5 5 0 0 20 6 15
OLAK 6 4 0 2 14 5 12
K Langat 7 4 0 3 10 28 12
Datuk Taha 6 3 1 2 17 5 10
TM Pahang 6 3 1 2 16 11 10
Poli KPT 4 3 0 1 15 4 9
TBSS 7 3 0 4 14 17 9
Johor HA 5 1 0 4 8 16 3
BJSS Jnrs 5 1 0 4 5 19 3
SMKPM 5 0 0 5 9 18 0