Undettered, FCI concentrated the attack on the wings and their forwards fetched two goals before half-time to put Mumbai in a spot. Both the goals were scored by the assiduous Navbir Singh, the parity off a cross from captain Kero, and the advantage deflecting a square pass off Lakra.However, Mumbai got the equaliser nine minutes into the second half through young debutant Vijay Alphonso and thereafter kept themselves busy warding off the unpredictable FCI forwards. Mumbai earned eight penalites and blew them all.PUNJAB WIN AGAIN: For Punjab, the day's outing was a cakewalk. Forward Baljit Singh stole the show with three goals - the fourth and the fifth off strokes and the eighth a field goal. EASY FOR AIRLINES: Heavyweights Airlines pumped in more than half of their tally in the first half itself. A four-goal deficit put Haryana in a bother but they succeeded in beating Ashish Ballal under the Airlines bar towards the close. India star Mohd Riaz opened the account in the fifth minute, Brojen scored the second two minutes later and Sameer Dad made it 3-0 before the game touched the tenth minute. Later, Dilip Tirkey converted a penalty corner. Three quick goals in the second half were scored by Altaf-ur-Rahman, Mohd Riaz and Lazrus Barla in the 36th, 43rd and 47th minutes respectively.ResultsGroup A: Punjab 7 (Baljit Singh 3, Gurusewak Singh, Jasdev Singh, Sarabjit Singh, Surjit Singh) bt Andhra 0.Group B: Indian Postal 2 (Nirmal Singh, Siraj-Ul-Haq) bt Hyderabad 1 (N Suresh); CISF 1 (GV Xaxa) bt Gujarat 0.Group C: Mumbai 2 (MK Prakash, Vijay Alphonso) drew FCI 2 (Navbir Singh 2).Group D: Orissa 2 (S Kumar Barla 2) bt Maharashtra 1 (Sanjay Pollaya); Indian Airlines 7 (M Riaz 2, Brojen Singh, Samir Dad, Dilip Tirkey, Altaf-Ur-Rehman, Lazarus Barla) bt Haryana 1 (M Fahad).Tomorrow's fixtures (Timing in bracket): (0630) Indian Railways vs Rajasthan, (0830) BSF vs Vidharba, (1030) Bihar vs Andhra, (1230) J&K vs Indian Airlines, (1430) UP vs Nagaland, (1630) Haryana vs Maharashtra.
