Eastern Railway emerge cluster D champions

Patna, February 10, 2012: Eastern Railway, Kolkata, beat East Central Railway Hajipur, 2-1 to emerge cluster D champions of the 68^th All-India Railway football tournament at the Moinul Haq Stadium here.

North-East Frontier Railway (NFR) got the second position collecting 8 points from four matches. Though NFR and ER were tied on points but ER got the edge on better goal difference.

The main championships will be held Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi, from February 20 to 25.

S Roy Choudhary put ER into the lead in the 34 minute while Avinash Thapa leveled the score in the 48^th minute for ECR. Viplab Naskar netted the match-winner for ECR in the 62^nd minute.