Railways, Air India and Haryana advanced to the quarterfinals of the 3rd Hockey India Senior Men’s National Championship after scoring comfortable victories over their respective rivals.
In a Pool B match, Air India trounced MPHA 10-1 while Railways defeated Namdhari XI 5-2 in Pool F. In Pool D, Haryana crushed Hockey Maharashtra 6-1.
Results- Pool B: Puducherry 5 (Hariharan K 11th, 33rd, Sellamuthu N 21st, Dayalan S 51st, Manthena Pradyumnavarma 59th) drew with Chhattisgarh 5 (own goal 12th, Prince Yadav 23rd, Upendra Pillay 24th, 64th, Pareek Ravi 69th); AI: 10 (Pradhan Somanna 11th, Vikram Pillay 15th, 66th, Joga Singh 23rd, 54th, Affan Yousuf 35th, 37th, Sameer Dad 60th, Swamy Vinaya 62nd, Arjun Halappa 68th) bt MPHA: 1 (V Choudhary 19th). Pool D: Andaman & Nicobar: 3 (Muthanna PR 37th, Bachither Singh 39th, Chandan Aind 60th) drew with MHAL: 3 (Faheem Khan 10th, Amit Goswami 19th, Jayesh Jadhav 55th); Haryana 6 (Ranjit Singh 4th, Jitender Saroha 27th, Mandeep Antil 28th, 41st, Yudhvir 51st, Dharmender 53rd) bt Hockey Maharashtra: 1 (Vikram 44th). Pool F: Hockey Bhopal: 6 (Osaf ur Rehman 2nd, 12th, 14th, Azam Baig 25th, M James 34th, Irfan Ali 42nd) bt J&K: 2 (Sikander Pal Singh 18th, Rajinder Singh 40th); Railways: 5 (Amit Gowda 10th, own goal 34th, Sanjay Bir 60th, 67th, B Horo 69th) bt Namdhari XI: 2 (Y Valmiki 11th, Didar Singh 61st). Pool G: AP: 5 (S Sammeta 21st, 35th, Myalram 29th, Loka VR 51st, Ramesh 53rd) bt Kerala: 2 (Mujathaba PK 52nd, George JV 68th).
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