KARACHI: Four hat-tricks including one double by PIA’s Owais-ur-Rehman, stole the limelight in one-sided matches played on the second day of the 34th National Junior (under-20) Hockey Championship at the Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium here on Friday.

Owais struck half-a-dozen goals as airlines taught a hockey lesson to Punjab ‘B’ while emerging victorious by 11-0 to open their pool ‘B’ account. He scored five of the six goals in a row in 18th (penalty corner), 20th, 21th (penalty stroke), 22nd, and 24th minutes before adding the sixth in 43rd minute to complete a rare feat of double hat-trick, first of the competition. Rana Sohail (27th), Arsalan Haider (33rd), Rizwan (40th), Ali Haider (52nd) off PC and Shakir Yar (59th) scored one goal apiece.

A hat-trick each by Anas and Ehtisham guided Sindh bulldozed late entrant Gilgit Baltistan exactly by a dozen goals (12-0) in pool ‘C’ encounter. Anas slammed four goals in 20th, 26th, 39th and 47th minutes while Ehtisham’s treble came in 33rd, 50th and 56th minutes. The remaining five goals came through the efforts of Junaid (18th and 23rd), Hammad (21st), Ali Musarrat (48th) and captain Wahab Riaz (55th).

It is pertinent to mention that Ilyas Ahmed of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) scored first hat-trick of the event against Punjab ‘B’ the other day. Mateen’s brace off penalty corner in the sixth and 57th minutes steered Wapda to an emphatic 5-0 victory over Pak Board. Junaid Manzoor, Sohail Anjum and Bilal Mehmood netted one goal apiece in 15th, 40th and 47th minutes respectively.

Railways, meanwhile, registered a solitary goal victory over fighting Balochistan. Full back Qasim Ahmed scored the all important goal off team’s fifth penalty corner in the 45th minute. Balochistan custodian M. Hyder remained vigilant under the bar as Railways eight PC’s went unfruitful.

Saturday’s fixtures:

Balochistan v National Bank of Pakistan at 8am; Wapda v Sindh at 10am; Pak Board v Gilgit Baltistan at 3pm; Punjab A v Army at 5pm.

Published in Dawn, April 18th, 2015

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