Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Shahbad, entered the final of the 19th Nehru juniors girls hockey tournament with a convincing 9-0 win over Directorate General, NCC, team at the Shivaji Stadium in the capital on Wednesday.

Government Girls Model Senior Secondary School of Sector-18, Chandigarh, registered a 5-1 win over SS Girls High School from Simdega, Jharkhand, in their final Super League encounter of the 19th Nehru girls hockey tournament in the capital on Tuesday.

Tika Ram Girls Senior Secondary School of Sonepat quelled a strong challenge from S.S. Girls High School of Simdega, Jharkhand, to prevail 2-1 in their Super League encounter of the 19th Nehru girls junior hockey tournament at the Shivaji Stadium in the capital on Monday.

Two teams from Pakistan and one each from Oman and Malaysia will feature alongside top domestic outfits in the 23rd Lal Bahadur Shastri men’s hockey tournament in the capital from November 27 to December 4.

Government Girls Senior Secondary School from Shahabad handed a 21-0 hammering to Vidya Devi Jindal School of Hisar in their Super League encounter of the 19th Nehru junior girls hockey tournament at the Shivaji Stadium in the capital on Saturday.

Directorate General-NCC continued their good run as they blanked Punjab’s Arya Girls Public School 6-0 in a Pool B match of the 19th Nehru junior girls hockey tournament at the Shivaji Stadium in the capital on Thursday.

Olympians and former India players, including Mohammad Riaz, Carriapa B.J., Baljeet Singh Saini, Surinder Kaur and Sandeep Kaur, are part of the first-ever high performance coaching programme for the Indian coaches being conducted by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and Hockey India, that got under way in Lucknow on Wednesday.

Mohammed Shaad scored a hat-trick as favourites Lucknow Hostel thrashed hosts Saifai Hockey Hostel 5-0 in the final of the state junior men’s hockey tournament at the Chandgiram Astro Turf Stadium in Etawah on Sunday.

Former captain Dhanraj Pillay is appalled by India’s dismal performance at the London Olympics and has squarely put the blame on the two warring groups, Hockey India and Indian Hockey Federation, engaged in a tussle to control the sport in the country.

Hockey India on Wednesday said Jaiprakash Associates (JAL) had come aboard as one of the six franchises that will compete in the inaugural HI League from January 5 to February 13 next year.