KARACHI: One-sided matches continued in the 62nd National Hockey Championship which has completed fifth day of its commencement at the Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium on Tuesday.

Two hat-tricks — one each by Dilber Hasan and Tausiq Arshad — helped National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) overwhelmed low-profile Balochistan 13-0 in the first match of the day.

Dilber slammed three field goals in the eighth, ninth and 55 minutes while Tausiq capitalised two penalty corners in 41st and 51st minutes besides a penalty stroke in the 42nd minute to share scoring honours.

Bilal Qadir and Shan Irshad shared four goals amongst themselves while Akhter Ali, Arsalan Qadir and Atiq Arshad added one apiece as bankers post second straight victory.

Balochistan has completed their engagement in pool D winning one against Police 4-1 and losing three games and will now pack for home.

Army conjured up second straight victory in four-team pool C by getting the better of Punjab 7-1 and qualified for the quarter-finals. Their match against SSGC on Saturday will decide the top two places.

M. Rizwan (2), M. Imran, Noman Khan, Habib-ur-Rehman, Salman Shahid and Hammad Zafar one each, scored for the soldiers.

Junaid Iqbal scored the consolation goal for Punjab.

This was Punjab’s second defeat in the pool and they are now out of contention for a place in the last eight. Punjab has lost to SSGC the other day.

Three-goal Aleem Bilal and two-goal each by Bilal Ahmed, Rana Umar and M. Usman helped fancied Wapda outplay Islamabad 11-0 in the third match of the day.

Bilal’s hat-trick came off PC’s in the second, 17th and 22nd minutes. Ejaz Ahmed and Ghazanfar Ali netted once for winners.

This was Islamabad’s third straight defeat in pool B.

Wednesday’s fixtures:

PIA v Sindh at 9am; Customs v Pakistan Television at 11.30am; Punjab v Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at 1.30pm; PAF v Police at 3.30pm.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2015