Times of India: Mizoram crush Bihar 3-0 to lift sub junior trophy
NAGAON: The 6th Hockey India Sub Junior Women National Championship (Division B) came to an exciting end on Wednesday with Mizoram walking away with the trophy.
Mizoram defeated Bihar 3-0, while in the bronze medal clash Madhya Pradesh edged past Bengal 4-1 to finish third in the tournament.
In the winner’s title clash Mizoram edged past Bihar in a one sided game. Mizoram struck their first goal through a penalty corner conversion from Marina Lalraminghaki in the 7th minute. The first half there after went on a smooth pace with Bihar pulling up their game, not allowing Mizoram to score.
However Mizoram’s efforts were duly rewarded in the form of a penalty corner which was successfully converted by Marina Lalraminghaki again in the 35th minute taking their lead to 2-0. The second half only witnessed one goal again from Mizoram which happened in 70th minute through F. Lalawmpuii helping Hockey Mizoram finish as the champions with a win of 3-0 against Hockey Bihar.
In the bronze medal clash both the teams started off with much caution not allowing either of them to penetrate into the respective halves. It was in the last minute of the first half when Hockey Madhya Pradesh drew first blood through a field goal of Sanju Prajapati giving them the much needed lead in the game.
The second half saw Hockey Madhya Pradesh on an attacking note and the same was duly rewarded in the 39th minute through a penalty corner conversion from Captain Sunanda Parmar taking the score to 2-0 in the favour of Madhya Pradesh. A few minutes later in the 47th minute another penetration from Hockey Madhya Pradesh was duly rewarded through a beautiful conversion from Sanju Prajapati to take the score to 3-0 in their favour.
The final goal which sealed the Bronze medal for Hockey Madhya Pradesh came in the 67th minute through Bishnai Baghel taking the score to 4-0. The match came to an end with Hockey Madhya Pradesh finishing third in the tournament.