LAHORE: The 36th National Junior Hockey Championship entered the quarter-finals stage here at the National Hockey Stadium on Monday.

Sui Southern Gas Company, Punjab-A, Army-A, Port Qasim, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-A, Mari Petroleum, Wapda and Customs made the last-eight stage after the pool round ended with seven matches on Monday.

In the first match, Sindh-B defeated Punjab-D 4-0 with scoring coming from Arslan (51st, 59th) Sardar Khan (1st) and Mohammad Haris Naseer (11th).

Port Qasim Authority (PQA) taught a hockey lesson to Punjab-B as the former registered a lopsided 12-1 victory. Four-goal Faheem Khan (34th, 35th, 40th, 47th) was the major contributor. Haris (3rd, 31st), Abdur Rehman (50th, 59th), Mehtab (24th), Bilal (21st), Ammar (53rd) and Sajjad (45th) were the other scorers.

Hat-tricks by Shahbaz (2nd, 4th, 31st), Abbas (3rd, 7th, 33rd) and Hamza (6th, 13th, 21st) helped Customs flatten Gilgit 18-0.

Meanwhile, Balochistan defeated Sindh-A 4-2 in another match of the day. Abdul Nafeeh (10th), Miraj Ali (15th ), Sheer Mohammad Khan (32nd) and Mohammad Younus (52nd) scored for the scorers. For Sindh-A, Mohammad Daniyal (8th) and Shoban Ali (23rd) reduced the margin of defeat.

In another one-sided game, Punjab-C outclassed AJK 4-0 as Taki-ul-Hassan (22nd), Rana Waheed (48th), Khawaja Aun Abbas (53rd) and Mohammad Raza (54th) sounded the board.

MPCL defeated Army-B 4-2. For the winners, Afraz (26th, 43rd), Ihtesham (48th) and Asif Hanif (60th) were the scorers. Sajid (53rd) and Zaheer Ahmad (56th) chipped in with a goal apiece for Army-B.

Islamabad edged out KP-B 2-1 as Esa Khan (17th) and Usman Ali (24th) smashed the goals for the victors. Qasim (57th) scored for KP-B.

Published in Dawn, December 3rd, 2019