Bengaluru: Bengal Hockey Association defeated Hockey Coorg 4-3 to qualify for the semifinals of the seventh Hockey India sub-junior boys’ hockey National (‘B’ division) championship here on Sunday.
A draw would have been sufficient for Hockey Coorg to make it to the last-four, but it was Bengal HA which topped the group and made the cut.
In another fixture, Namdhari XI qualified to the knockout round after edging Mumbai Hockey Association 3-2.
The results:
Pool C: Bengal HA 4 (Siddharth Kumar 16, Kallu Ali 20, 69, Rabi Shankar Yadav 34) bt Hockey Coorg 3 (M.K. Chethan 31, Ashik Uthappa 48, Vinesh Poovaiah 56); Vidarbha HA 0 lost to Citizen Hockey XI 6 (Gufran Mohd. 32, 69, Abhinandan 38, Pawan 47, Sanjay Soni 54, Farman Ansari 63); Hockey Himachal 1 (Abhishek 3) bt Telangana Hockey 0.
Pool B: Namdhari XI 3 (Hanspal Singh 18, Princepal Singh 22, Akashdeep Singh 35) bt Mumbai HA 2 (Faraz Tadvi 26, 61); Hockey Madhya Bharat 10 (Mohit Tatawat 9, Mudassar Qureshi 12, 68, Irbaz Khan 16, 18, 69, 70, Shubham Ahir 47, Abhishek Yadav 49, Vickey Pandya 62) bt Hockey Puducherry 1 (S. Suriya 44); Goans Hockey 1 (Sameer 44) lost to Sports Authority of Gujarat 2 (Shyamprakash Yadav 31, Sahil Katiyar 55).
