BSF wins Hawks Hockey Final Cup

BSF Jalandhar today won the Silver Jubilee Dashmesh Hawks All-India Hockey Festival final match by beating Punjab Police Jalandhar 5-4.

Punjab Police took an early lead in the 15th minute through Hardeep Singh to go 1-0 up. The BSF forward line made repeated attacks to score an equaliser, but Punjab Police’s defence stood their ground. Th score at half-time read 1-0 in favour of Punjab Police, Jalandhar.

In the second half BSF continued to press and succeeded in getting an equaliser through Ranjit Singh in the 40th minute who capitalised on a defensive lapse by their opponents and scored to bring the match back to life.

Punjab Police again scored through a penalty corner, converted by Harmik Singh in 67th minute to lead 2-1. In the last minute of the match, BSF’s hero Ranjit Singh scored a field goal to equalise and make it 2-2. Both teams were locked after normal time and the match looked heading for a tie-breaker.

The organising committee decided that in view of the weather 7.5 minutes would be given to each side, with the golden goal rule in place, but still the deadlock remained. Then the tiebreaker rule was applied and BSF won the match 5-4.