Glut of goals in national junior hockey championship

Hosts Tamil Nadu down Gujarat by a a 24-0 margin with seven goals each coming from the sticks of Heartlin James and Lakshman Karan.

A host of one-sided games were the order of the day in the national junior hockey championship in Chennai on Tuesday.

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Hosts Tamil Nadu downed Gujarat by a a 24-0 margin with seven goals each coming from the sticks of Heartlin James and Lakshman Karan.

In another match, Bihar thrashed Madhya Bharat 16-1, while Air India toyed with Kerala for a 11-0 win.

Results:

Group A: Tamil Nadu 24 (Heartin James 7, B Lakshman Karan 7 including a hat-trick, Vinod Rayar 4, Shyam Kumar 3, S Vivek, S Peter Alan Rajesh, D Saravanakumar) beat Gujarat 0.

Bihar 16 (Mohammed Riyazuddin 5, Nirmal Dhan 3, Dhim Kumar 2, Birsu Dhengra 2, Raja Singh Rana 2, Prabodh Bara, Amrendra Kumar) beat Madhya Bharat 1 (Hakim Singh)

Group E: Air India 11 (Ashish Minz 2, Vinod Kumar 2, Pramod Dhir 2, Innocent Kullu, Mayank Names, D Mujtaba, Md Imran, Arujun Anil) beat Kerala 0.

Delhi 4 (Kulwant, Munda, Mehtab, Vikas Sharma) beat Chattisgarh 2 (Navid Sharma, Fazil Ahmed).

Haryana 4 (Vinod Kumar, Rohit Singh, Sandeep Kumar, Ved Prakash) beat Hyderabad 1 (Santosh Kumar)

Group G: Chandigarh 6 (Rajoth Singh 2, Dharamvir Singh 2, Verender Singh, Harmanbreet Singh 1) beat Andhra Pradesh 3 (Sandeep Raju 2, Laxman Rao 1).