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Thursday, May 18, 2006

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A farcical start

Special Correspondent

BANGALORE: The 18th National hockey championship for sub-junior girls was off to a farcical start with West Bengal playing spoilsport in its match against Delhi. Down 0-3 at the half time, the West Bengal coach threatened to call off her players on an earlier disputed goal. After much coaxing and even warning the team returned to the arena and ten of its players stood at the centre line with the goal-keeper alone under the bar.

Delhi shot in a slew of goals until the coach was warned that the team would be expelled from the tournament and the players would have to vacate their rooms and head back to Kolkata. Even then the players went through the rest of the game pretending to make a match of it. For the record, Delhi won 23-0.

Karnataka thumps Assam

In the post-inauguration match, host Karnataka after making a late entry into the ground and almost being made to forfeit the match, pulled off an 11-1 win over Assam.

The results: Delhi 23 (Jasleen, Monika and Meenu (3 each), Ashu, Anshul, Savitha, Kiran and Bhawana (2 each), Sulekha, Reena, Niresh and Pooja (1 each) bt West Bengal 0; Karnataka 11 (Saba Firdaus (5), B.O. Prajwala (2), A.S. Bollamma, Saira Banu, Yogeshwari and K.S. Sukhi (1 each) bt Assam 1 (H. Lata Devi); Tamil Nadu 1 (S. Narmatha) drew with PEPSU 1 (Hardeep Kaur); Mizoram 1 (L.R. Thuami ) bt Andhra Pradesh 0; Kerala 2 (Ambili Thomas 2) bt Maharashtra 1 (Melanie Soares).

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