Army XI beat Punjab & Sind Bank by 3-1 in the league match and earned full three points in pool B on the second day of 39th Indian Oil Servo Surjit Hockey Tournament at Olympian Surjit Hockey Stadium Jalandhar here this evening. In another league match in Pool A Indian Air Force beat Indian Railways by 3-1 to earn three points.
ASC Bangaluru and Indian Navy entered the league stage after winning their respective matches. In League stage in Pool B Punjab & Sind Bank and Army XI displayed fast hockey. In the 6th minute of play Armymen took lead when their Sarin E converted penalty corner (1-0). In the 7th minute Bankmen equalized, their Jarmanjeet Singh netted the ball of penalty corner (1-1).
At half time both teams were locked at 1-1. In the fourth quarter’s 54th minute Army’s Jagjoth Singh scored from the right flank (2-1). In the 58th minute Army’s Pratap Shinde completed the tally (3-1).
In the first match of the day, ASC Bangaluru beat CAG New Delhi by 1-0. In the 28th minute of the game, Gurpreet Singh, skipper of the ASC sounded the board by converting their first penalty corner.
Second match of the day was played between Indian Navy Mumbai and Army (Green) in which both the teams displayed excellent and fast-paced hockey. Both the teams scored 3-3 in the stipulated time of the match while Sushil Dhanwar of Army failed to convert the penalty stroke into a goal in last minute of the game.
In the stipulated time, Nitesh, Sushil Dhanwar & Sushil of Indian Navy Mumbai and Simerandeep Singh, Milin Topo & Jobanpreet Singh of Army (Green) scored 3 goals each and finally the Indian Navy defeated Army Green through penalty shoots by 7-5.
In league stage match of pool-A Indian Air Force , Mumbai defeated last year's champion Indian Railways, Delhi by 3-1. In the 30 minute, deep defender Parmpreet Singh of railmen converted the panality in goal to ahead his team.
At half time, railmen were leading by 1-0. After half-time,in the 42 minute Airmen showed a good game & their captain Lovepreet Singh converted the penalty stroke in goal to level da score 1-1 but the joy of the Airmen was short lived when railway forward Jaginder Singh scored a brilliant field goal with a solo effort to ahead his team again (2-1).
After half-time, Air Force showed a good game and their captain Lovepreet Singh scored a penalty stroke in the 42nd minute of the game to make their team equal 1-1. In the 46 minute, minute Airmen forward Maneed Kerkata scored a brilliant field goal to ahead his team (2-1). In the last minute of the game, Rahul Kumar scored a brilliant field goal with a solo effort to give the Air Force team a 3-1 win.
29th October Matches
ASC Bangaluru v/s Indian Navy – 2-15 PM
Punjab National Bank v/s Army XI – 4-00 PM
Indian Oil v/s Indian Air Force – 5-45 PM