CHANDIGARH: Springdales Senior Secondary School, Fatehgarh Churian Road, Amritsar, defeated Guru Gobind Singh Sports College, Kursi Road, Lucknow, 5-2 to book a berth in the super league of the ATS 38th Nehru junior hockey tournament at the Sector-42 Stadium here on Sunday.
Jugraj Singh (2), Rupinder Singh, Narinder Kumar and Harmandeep Singh scored the goals for the Amritsar team that led 1-0 at halftime.
Gaurav Singh and Lalit Mohan were successful in reducing the margin for the Lucknow team.
Three other teams also qualified for the superleague, to join eight seeded teams.
S. S. High School, Khunti, Ranchi; Bright Scholar Senior Secondary School, Sonepat and Union Academy Senior Secondary School, Raja Bazar, Delhi, were the other teams that won their matches to make the third phase of the tournament in which teams will compete in groups of three each.
The other results:
Union Academy Senior Secondary School, Raja Bazar, 5 (Parveen Kumar 2, Sumit, Mohit, Manish) beat NCC 0.
S.S. High School, Khunti, Ranchi, 6 (Nirdosh 2, Enem Dodray 2, Manish Das, Vinod) beat Malwa Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Model Gram, Ludhiana, 1 (Sukhjit Singh).
Bright Scholar Senior Secondary School, Sonepat, 6 (Manish 2, Navdeep Singh, Navpreet Singh, Siddharth) beat Government Senior Secondary School, Jarkhar, Ludhiana, 0. — Special Correspondent