Women’s Junior Hockey Asia Cup: The Indian ladies’s junior hockey staff on Sunday registered a thumping win over Korea in the ultimate of the Women’s Junior Hockey Asia Cup as they clinched their maiden title in the event. The Women in Blue outclassed four-time champions by 2-1 in Kakamigahara, Japan. The Indian staff displayed good defence together with attacking expertise.
For India, Annu and Neelam discovered the again of the nets with their strikes second and third-quarter strike. Meanwhile, for Korea, it was Park Seo Yeon, who scored the lone aim in the second quarter.
The opening quarter of the match noticed a goaless 15-minute interval as depsite the groups happening attacking strategy. Annu put India on the scoresheets together with her twenty second minute strike from a penalty nook. However, the Koreans have been fast to react and Seon Yeon put her staff to parity with strike three minutes later. The groups went stalemate into the primary half.
The second half began with Koreans holding the possession however India took the counter attacking strategy later. Neelam then put India again into the lead with a strong strike to low proper. Indian then fended off Korea to stay unscathed and go on to win by 2-1.
India become champion for first time
The Indian staff has gained its first Women’s Hockey Junior Asia Cup title. They have earlier fallen brief on the ultimate hurdle in 2012, which was their maiden remaining look. India had then misplaced to China 2-5 in Bangkok.
However, this season introduced pleasure for the Indians. “We were acutely aware of the specific areas we needed to excel in order to overcome the Koreans,” Indian captain Preeti stated after the match. “The remaining match led to a substantial quantity of nerves. However, we knew that as a staff now we have to play our greatest recreation to realize one thing particular and that’s precisely what we did. We are elated to make our nation proud,” she added.
