IOC advances

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Deepak Thakur’s hat-trick helped Indian Oil Corporation defeat Karnataka XI 4-3 in a quarterfinal match of the DCB Aga Khan hockey tournament here on Wednesday.

The results (quarterfinals): Indian Oil 4 (Deepak Thakur 3, Hamza Mujthaba) bt Karnataka XI 3 (M.R. Deepak, P.R. Muthana, Nitin Thimmaiah).

Bharat Petroleum 5 (Birendra Lakra, Gurpreet Singh, Jarnail Singh 2, Amar Aiyama) bt IOB, Chennai 0.

First round: RCF, Kapurthala 4 (Deepak, Roop Singh 2, Ranjod Singh) bt Bandra Select 2 (Peter Fernandez, Saad Pathan Wala)