Jalandhar, October 21, 2024 (Yes Punjab News)
Former champions Indian Railways made a winning start by securing three points in the league round of the 41st Indian Oil Servo Surjit Hockey Tournament by defeating CRPF by a margin of 4-2. Two matches of the league round were played on the third day of the ongoing tournament at the Olympian Surjit Hockey Stadium. In the second match, Indian Oil Mumbai defeated BSF Jalandhar by a margin of 5-4.
Pool C saw a tough fight between Indian Railways Delhi and CRPF Delhi. CRPF Delhi completely dominated the Indian Railways in the first two quarters of the game. In the 7th minute of the game, Saroj Eka of CRPF converted a penalty corner to make the score 1-0. In the 22nd minute of the game Sudhri Horo of CRPF scored a field goal to make the score 2-0. In the 27th minute, Indian Railways international player Jasjit Singh Kular converted the penalty stroke into a goal to make the score 1-2.
In the 36th minute of the game, Indian Railway’s Pratap Lakra converted the penalty corner into a goal to level the score at 2-2. In the fourth quarter of the game, Indian Railways continued to attack. Joginder Singh in the 55th minute of the game and international player Gursahib Singh in the 56th minute of the game scored field goals to give Indian Railways a 4-2 lead. With this victory, three points have come to the account of Indian Railways.
In Pool A, Indian Oil Mumbai kept constant pressure on BSF Jalandhar. In the 5th minute of the game, Indian Oil international player Gurjinder Singh scored a penalty corner to make the score 1-0.
In the 10th minute of the game, Indian Oil’s Ujwal Singh scored a penalty corner to make the score 2-0. In the 20th minute of the game, Indian Oil captain Talwinder Singh scored a field goal to make the score 3-0. Amarbir Singh of BSF scored a goal in the 35th minute of the game to make the score 1-3.
Indian Oil’s Gurjinder Singh scored a goal in the 41st minute to make the score 4-1. In the 54th minute, Indian Oil’s Roshan Minj scored a goal to make the score 5-1 and in the next minute, Sukhwinder Singh of BSF, Daljit Singh in the 58th minute and Sukhwinder Singh in the 59th minute scored to make the score 4-5. With this victory, Indian Oil has three points in its account.
The chief guests of today’s matches Sham Lal Gupta of Indian Oil, Raghuvinder Singh, Naveen Mukhija and Olympian Gurjit Kaur introduced the teams.
On this occasion Lakhwinder Pal Singh Khaira, LR Nayyar Daljit Singh Customs, Tarlok Singh Bhullar (Canada), Natha Singh Gakhal, Olympian Hardik Singh, Teja Singh, Daljit Singh Dhillon, Olympian Deepak Thakur, Professor Kripal Singh Matharu, Jaspreet Kaur Railway , Varinderpreet Singh, Olympian Gundeep Kumar, Ram Saran, Kulwinder Singh Thiara, Iqbal Singh Sandhu, Surinder Singh Bhapa, Ranbir Singh Rana Tut, Narinder Pal Singh Judge, Dr TS Randhawa and other sports lovers were present.
