Pinegrove lift hockey title

Ambika Sharma

Solan, November 8

Pinegrove School, Dharampur, ousted Sherwood College Nainital by 3-0 to lift the 11th Inter-School sub-junior boys hockey tournament for the fifth time today.

The game caught momentum right from the beginning and it saw the Pinegrovian’s dominate all through. For Pinegrove the two goals came in the first half while one was scored in the concluding part of the game. Nikhil Verma opened the account for Pinegrove in the fifth minute while Deepak added one more goal in the seventh minute of the first half. Arjun scored the third goal for the host team in the seventeenth minute of second half.

Earlier in the first semifinal, Pinegrove defeated Daly College, Indore, by 3-0. All the three goals were scored in the second half of the match. Nikhil, Nischay and Khushvikram were the goal scorers for Pinegrove.

In the other semifinal, Sherwood College, Nanital outplayed Lawrence School, Sanawar by 4-1 in an action-packed match where Sherwood boys got into an attacking mode right from the very beginning scoring three goals in the first half itself. Sanawar team hit back with one goal. In the second half the Sherwoodians consolidated their lead by one more goal and won the match. Puru, Jujhar, Sidharth and Ayush scored one goal each for Sherwood while Lavya scored the only goal for Sanawar.

Nabhdeep Singh of Pinegrove School was adjudged the Player of the Tournament while Sidharth Basnet of Sherwood College, Nanital was given the Highest Scorer award. Garvit Chaudhary of Pinegrove School was adjudged the Best Goalkeeper. The Best Defender award was given to Tururav Raghuvanshi of Sherwood College, Nanital. Tejeshwar Singh of Daly College, Indore was awarded the Best Upcoming Player.