It’s raining goals at 2nd Div S-League

SOCCER SEASON: Eight clubs are fighting it out in the main round of the Sikkim Football Association Second Division Sikkim League 2012, which started last Sunday at Paljor Stadium. A total of 32 clubs from across the state played the qualifying round which concluded on 29 June with only eight making it to the main round. The eight teams are Howler’s FC Singtam, Friend’s FC Singtam, JVC Singtam, United Brother’s Rabong, Dalom SA Sombaria, Boy’s Club A, Lower Arithang FC and GVSFC, Pendam. Although the spectator galleries remain sparsely occupied despite the summer break at schools, the league has been successful in providing a platform to budding footballers of different local clubs.

GANGTOK, 02 July: It rained goals here at the ongoing Sikkim Football Association’s Second Division Sikkim-League-2012 at Paljor Stadium today with a total of twelve goals scored in the two matches held. 
Boy’s Club A thrashed United Brother’s FC 5-1. A hattrick by Ongdup Lepcha helped the Boy’s Club score big in today’s win.
United Brother’s FC took an early lead in the game with the help of Sonam Rinzing in the 6th minute but in the next minute, Dawa Sherpa scored the equalizer. Keeping the pressure on, Ongdup Lepcha scored another goal for Boy’s Club in the 21st minute and completed his brace in the 27th minute.
In the second half, UBFC played their hearts out to come back in the game but could not score any further and in the 67th minute, Chandra Tamang scored the fourth goal for Boy’s Club and within two minutes Ongdup completed his hattrick sealing the 5-1 victory for Boy’s Club A.
The other match of the day between Dalom SA, Sombaria and JVC FC, Singtam ended in a draw.  Biswas Chettri of JVC scored an early goal in the 3rd minute itself but unfortunately JVC missed some golden opportunities to take the lead further with two of its players missing two penalty shots offered in the early minutes of the match.
One penalty shot was successfully saved by the DSA goalkeeper, while the other missed the goalposts. Soon, Khagen Subba scored the equalizer for DSA in the 26th minute and within two minutes his teammate L Hang Subba scored the second goal for his team.
With DSA leading the match 2-1 in the second half, Smile Rai scored the equalizer for JVC in the 43rd minute. Just as it seemed the match would end in a draw of 2-2, Suraj Subba scored the third goal for DSA which was quickly followed up by another equalizer by Pranay Rai for JVC. The match finally ended in a draw of 3-3.
On Tuesday, Dalom SA Sombaria will take on GVC FC, Pendam in the first match, while in the second match Howler’s FC Singtam will be playing against Lower Arithang.