Surjit Hockey Tournament: Indian Oil, PNB register win on Day 3

Jalandhar, October 29

Former champion Indian Oil Mumbai grounded the Indian Air Force Hockey team by 5-0 and Punjab National Bank defeated former champion Army-XI (Delhi) by 2-0 to earn full points on the third day of the 39th Indian Oil Servo Surjit Hockey tournament in progress here at the local Surjit Hockey Stadium, Bulton Park.

In another match today, Spirited ASC Jalandhar entered the league stage by defeating the Indian Navy Mumbai by 3-2.

In the first match of the day, the ASC team was off to an aggressive start, dominating the Indian Navy Mumbai from the very beginning. The ASC team got a penalty corner in the 10th minute of the game on which Ravneet Singh scored a goal on the rebound. Two minutes later, Gautham Kumar scored a brilliant field goal to give his team a 2-0 lead. The navy men played well in the second quarter. A few seconds before the end of the first quarter, Ashish Topno’s good effort to score was very well saved by thee rival goalkeeper Navdeep Singh. Till breather, supplymen were leading by 2-0. After the half-time, supplymen maintained its attack and their captain Gurpreet Singh converted the 5th penalty corner into a goal to move his team ahead by 3-0. After trailing by three goals, in the 37th minute of the game, the Indian Navy’s Kuldeep made a field goal to make the goal reduce the margin 1-3.

In the Pool-B match, where Army XI Delhi, led by Jobanpreet Singh, started the game with a lot of confidence and the Punjab National Bank with full of young and enthusiastic players competed hard. Both the teams got chances to score but neither team got success. Till half time, both teams were playing a goalless draw. After the half-time, bankmen earned their first penalty corner and their Gursimeran Singh made no mistake to move his team by 1-0. After trailing behind, the armymen started their attacks and earned 4 penalty corners in a row but failed to convert. In the 55th minute of the game, Ankush of bankmen received a ball near center line, he dodged passed three defender of army and scored an excellent goal to complete the tally (2-0).

In the last match of the day in Pool A, Indian Oil Mumbai displayed controlled Hockey against Indian Air Force. In the 8th minute of play Indian Oil took the lead, when Olympian V R Raghunath converted second penalty corner (1-0). In 17th minute Indian Oil’s International Star Affan Yosuf netted the ball from right flank (2-0). At Half time Indian Oil was leading by 2-0. After the lemon break Indian Oil scored three goals in arrow. Talwinder Singh in 34th, Armaan Quereshi in 35th and Roshan Minz in 37th minute (5-0). In the last quarter’s 48th minute Indian Oil’s Gurjinder Singh and in 49th minute Talwinder Singh scored (7-0).