MBCT Hockey Nursery Team Shines

Bassi Pathana, September 16: Five teams have qualified for the knock-out quarter final stage on the third day of the National Sub Junior U15 Girls Hockey Championship being held here in Bassi Pathana, Fatehgarh Saheb.

                            

Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, MBCT Hockey Nursery, and Haryana girls have entered the knock-out quarter final stage.

On the third day, in the Pool G match, Manipur routed Rajasthan 8-0 in a one-sided play, with the first goal coming off Neha in the 18^th minute and Lalle B Chanu sounded the board in 27^th minute, with Bijeta Devi scored the second goal followed by brilliant moves by Anamika who scored a hat-trick with three goals one after the other. Lanchen Chanu added two goals in 37^th and 41^st minute with Lalleibi closing with another goal in 45^th minute.

MBCT Hockey Nursery girls from Bassi Pathana had a field day who defeated Madhya Pradesh girls 13-0.  From the word ‘go’, hockey nursery team was in the MP half, and sounded the board in the very first minute followed by next few goals in the 2^nd, 3^rd, 5^th, 12^th and 14^th minutes. The goals continued to come off their sticks till the end, in which Gagandeep scored 3, Amandeep 2, Kashish 2, Kajal 2, Ramanpreet 1, Amritpal Kaur 1, and Sonali 1.

Chandigarh girls kept the score board moving defeating Tamil Nadu with 14-0. Poonam, Saroj and Shilpi dribbled past the defenders time and again and kept the pressure on not letting the rivals come to near their half.  It was a great team work. In the 8^th minute itself Poonam had the first kill, with Amanjot sounding the board in 13^th, Krishma Singh in the 15^th and Anjali in the 17^th minute. Shilpi moved in again in the 19^th and 20^th minutes to score two goals consecutively, and had another field goal in the 39^th minute. Sharmila scored in the 31^st minute, while Poonam scored another one in 35^th minute while Saroj scored goals in the 37^th, 40^th and 46^th minutes, with Lakhwinder adding another one in the 43 minute.

Match between Bihar and Chattisgarh finished with 1-1.  Yogito scored the first goal in the 11^th minute but repeated attempts by both sides did not yield any results till the 49^th minute when Bihar’s Tulsi Kumari sounded the board to level the scores.

Haryana girls won 3-1 against Mumbai team after leading with 2-0 till half time.  Neha, Kavita and Devika scored one goal each for Haryana while Natasha reduced the margin by scoring a goal in 27^th minute.

Karnatka led Delhi 2-1, with first goal Delhi conceded as self-goal in the sixth minute, while Afsana of Delhi leveled it with one goal in 17^th minute. However, Pavithra of Karnataka increased the lead in 42^nd minute by scoring another one.