Teams from Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Bihar won three points each by winning their respective league matches during the 14th Hockey India Junior Men National Hockey Championship. In this championship being organized by Hockey Punjab at Olympian Surjit Hockey Stadium, 6 matches of the league round were played on the fourth day.
In the first match, Uttrakhand defeated Chhattisgarh by a margin of 7-5. For the winning team, Arpit Kohli scored one goal, Naveen Prasad scored two goals, Deepak Singh scored two goals, Bist Mahindra scored one goal, Suraj Gupta scored one goal. While from Chhattisgarh, Mohit Naik scored three goals, Pakash Patel scored one goal and Vishnu Yadav scored one goal. In the second match, Uttar Pradesh defeated Puducherry by a margin of 6-1. Triloki scored two goals, Ashu Maurya one, Siddhant Singh one and Khan Fahad scored two goals for Uttar Pradesh. Darshan scored one goal for Puducherry.
In the third match, Maharashtra won three points by defeating Goa with a huge margin of 17-1. This is Maharashtra's first win in the league round. In the fourth match, Manipur beat Himachal Pradesh by a margin of 2-0 to get three points and keep their hopes alive for the quarter finals. Manipur scored two consecutive goals in the 44th and 45th minutes of the game to score 2-0 and win the match. For the winning team, N Amarjit Singh and Shusheel scored one goal each. In the fifth match, Jharkhand won three points by defeating Bengal by a margin of 5-1. For the winning team, Roshan Eka scored two goals, Deepak Sorang scored one, Abhishek scored one and S Guria scored one. In the sixth match, Bihar secured three points by defeating Telangana by a margin of 3-1.
During today's matches, Chief Guest Olympian Sameer Dad, Olympian Balwinder Shammi, Nitan Mahajan and Jatin Mahajan (Alpha Hockey), Naresh Dogra Sports Secretary PAP Jalandhar, Sukhwinder Singh SP Headquarters Jalandhar and Punjab and Sindh Bank Zonal Manager Milind Buchke visited the teams. identified On this occasion Hockey Punjab General Secretary Amrik Singh Powar, Treasurer Olympian Sanjeev Kumar, Organizing Secretary Kulbir Singh, Gurinder Singh Sangha, Harinder Singh Sangha, Gurmeet Singh, Hockey India Observer Vishal Sangar, Technical Delegate Mohammad Faheem Khan and many other hockey lovers were present.