Haryana Bags Third Women’s Senior National Hockey Title

Pune, Mar 23: Haryana thwarted Maharashtra’s hopes of profitable at dwelling with a 3-0 victory by means of shoot-out to elevate the 14th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship 2024 title right here on Saturday.

Both the groups had been tied 1-1 on the finish of regulation time. This was Haryana’s third nationwide title having gained it in 2013 and 2020.

For Maharashtra, it was the second successive 12 months that they needed to settle with the silver medal.

Haryana took the lead by means of India worldwide Deepika (twenty sixth) from a penalty-corner within the third quarter, earlier than the hosts took some time to settle and work into the opponent’s defenses.

It was Akshata Abaso Dhekale who restored parity, additionally from a set piece, to take the match right into a shoot-out.

In the shoot-out, Navneet Kaur, Usha and Sonika scored for Haryana, whereas Priyanka Wankhede, Akansha Singh and Rutuja Dadaso Pisal missed for Maharashtra.

Earlier, Jharkhand defeated Madhya Pradesh 2-0 to safe the third spot within the match.

India worldwide Sangita Kumari scored an early area purpose within the third minute earlier than Supriya Mundu (59th) transformed a penalty nook a minute from the hooter to seal the win for Jharkhand. PTI SSC| SSC UNG

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