New Delhi: Mizo girl Offee Lalhmingluahpuii continued her superb form as she scored her fourth hat-trick in five matches to take Government Mizo High School, Aizawl, to the Under-17 final of the 53rd Subroto Cup here on Tuesday.
The summit clash on Thursday will be an all-Northeast affair with the Aizawl school taking on Oriental English School of Manipur, who got the better of Government High School, Haryana, 2-0 in the second semifinal on the same day.
Lalhmingluahpuii struck in the 25th, 40th and 50+1 minute as the Mizoram school thumped Ramakrishna Saratha Higher Secondary School of Tamil Nadu 4-1 in the first semifinal of the girl’s tournament.
Lalhmingluahpuii had got her name in the Subroto Cup record books as the first girl to score a hat-trick in the tournament and had scored an impressive 11 goals before this match. Her fourth hat-trick surely puts her in a league of her own.
J Revathi scored the consolation goal for Tamil Nadu in the 18th minute. Talking about her goal scoring spree, Lalhmingluahpuii, who idolises French great Zinedine Zidane said, “I play because I enjoy playing and I don’t think much. Guess that is the reason I get to score goals.”
In the second semifinal, K Tony gave the Manipur school the lead in the 18th minute before S Ranjana scored the second goal in the 39th minute to seal their school’s berth in the final.
Meanwhile, the league matches for the boys U-17, in which Meghalaya is represented, started on Tuesday. (PTI)