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Andhra knocks Hyderabad out

Principal Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Andhra knocked out host Hyderabad 5-4 via tie-breaker in a league match of the 4th Junior National hockey championship for boys (under-18) at the Gachibowli Complex here on Monday.

With Nagaland and Himachal Pradesh pulling out, Andhra and Hyderabad had to play only one match today. It was a must-win situation for both teams to qualify for the quarterfinals. Hyderabad shot into lead in the seventh minute when Mohd. Jawar latched on to a quick cross from the right flank by R. Durga Prasad to find the target.

Splendid recovery

Andhra recovered quickly from the setback with the speedy S. Ramesh, Ramesh Krishna and Kiran Babu working in tandem. A splendid one-to-one effort between Ramesh and Kiran culminated in a goal for Andhra when the unmarked Kiran scored in the 20th minute.

Andhra took the lead when Kiran Babu steered clear of the defence to find the target off a perfect centre from the right. But Andhra’s joy was shortlived when Sai of Hyderabad was fortunate to see his feeble effort off a deflection from his teammate N. Mahender saw the ball roll into the goal to level the scores (2-2).

With the teams locked two-all at full-time, tie-breaker rule was applied. R. Siva Kumar and N. Mahender scored for Hyderabad while Stalin, Keerthi and S. Ramesh were successful for the winner.

Jharkhand advances

In another match, Jharkhand recorded a 5-0 win over Uttaranchal to make it to the last eight stage. Bihar also made it to the knock-out phase after two wins from Pool ‘A’ .

Other results: MP Academy 2 (Imran Yousuf, Ashok Soni) drew with J& K 2 (Amrinder Singh, Sukhinderpal); Delhi 5 (Mohd. Shahbaaz 2, Amir Sohail, Praveen, Rahul Kalakoti) bt Vidarbha 2 (Asif, Niraj); Jharkhand bt Uttaranchal 5-0 (Dilbar Horo 2, Anil Xaxo, Deepak Soren, Rohit Tirkey); Kerala 1 (Sobish) drew with Assam 1 (Paranjal Rabha); Punjab 12 (Mandeep Singh 4, Prabhdeep Singh 2, Ramandeep Singh, Karanpal, Jogroot Singh, Simranjit Singh, Jaskaran Singh, Joginder Singh) bt Gujarat 1 (Ardik Patel); Karnataka bt Madhya Bharat 16-0 (Chandan Aind 4, Mudappa 4, Biju 2, Arun Kumar, Naveen Kumar, Mohd Nayeemuddin, Achhappa, Elvarasan, S.K. Uthappa).

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