Charitra scores hat-trick

Striker Charitra Singh Bishnoi scored a hat-trick to help Rajasthan record a 5-1 win over Manipur in the inaugural junior National hockey championship (under-20), at the Gachibowli Complex here on Friday.

The results:

Punjab 3 (Ramandeep Singh, Satbir Singh, Navjot Singh) bt Kerala 0; SAIL Rourkela 3 (Dilip Toppo, Aijub Ekka, Ranjin Kandulna) bt Bhopal 0; Patiala 4 (Jaskaran Singh, Balwinder Singh 2, Ripudaman Singh) bt J&K 1 (Sahil Kumar).

Chandigarh 4 (Ranjit Singh, Harjot Singh, Manmeet Raj, Navdeep Singh) bt Puducherry 0; MP 4 (Ram Pravesh, Vijay Kumar Kori, Franklin Mariyan, Aditya Chandel) bt Uttarakhand 3 (Puneet Kumar, Ankit Suyal 2).

U.P. 6 (Sunil Yadav 2, Lalit Upadhyay, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Abhishek Singh, Abhimanyu Balmiki) bt Himachal Pradesh 0; Haryana 7 (Gurpreet Singh 3, Sunil 2, Ankit Singh, Bishan Singh) bt Maharashtra 0; Rajasthan 5 (Devanshu Rawat, Charitra Singh Bishnoi 3, Chandransh Sharma) bt Manipur 1 (K. H. Bhananjoy Singh). —