Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 14: Semifinals lineup has been drawn in 65th All India Police Hockey Championship, being played at KK Hakhu Astroturf Hockey Stadium, here.
Defeating their rivals convincingly, ITBP, Punjab, CRPF and BSF have entered the last four stages and will be meeting each other tomorrow for sealing berth in the finals.
Earlier, in the first quarterfinals, ITBP defeated Odisha by four goals to two (4-2). For ITBP, the first goal was scored by MC Meetai in 14th minute, which was followed by the second goal netted by Harwinder Singh in 27th minute. However, Sudhir Batra and Umesh Kishan of Odisha scored goals in 29th and 38th minutes to equalize the score. ITBP players came back strongly to score two back to back goals in 44th and 66th minutes through Harwinder Singh and Jaswinder Singh, to finally win the match by (4-2).
Dilbar Sandhu and Malkiat Singh were the umpires, Joginder Singh and VP Sharma were the judges, while Gurmeet Singh was the technical officer.
In the second quarterfinal, Punjab blanked Tamil Nadu by six goals to nil (6-0). For Punjab, Satwinder Singh scored the first goal in 4th minute of the match. Then after a gap of 18 minutes, Punjab managed to score three back to back goals in 22nd, 27th and 29th minutes through Gurbaj Singh, Amit Sandhu and Ajay Kumar respectively to make it 4-0 in their favour in the first half. Jagmeet Singh scored two goals in the second half in 54th and 70th minutes to help his team win by (6-0).
Vijay Panchal and Jai Bhagwan were the match umpires, Sham Lal and MS Reen were the judges and Amar Singh Negi was the technical officer.
In the third quarterfinal match, CRPF got better of hosts Jammu and Kashmir by four goals to one (4-1). The goal scorers for CRPF were Jayant Tirkey (17th minute), Bikas Kujur (25th minute), Bikas Kujur (48th minute) and Ravender Kujur (66th minute). The lone goal from J&K was scored by Jasreet Singh in 67th minute.
Ravinder Kharab and Deepak Kumar were the umpires, Gurmeet Singh and Amar Singh Negi were the judges, while Feroz Mohd Khan was the technical officer.
In the last quarterfinal match, BSF thrashed Karnataka by five goals to nil (5-0). The first goal was scored by Gudjit Singh in 16th minute, which was followed by second in 17th minute netted by Mandeep Singh. The third and 4th goals were scored by Hatinder Singh in 40th and 45th minutes, while the fifth goal was netted by Lakhvir Singh in 67th minute.
Anand Dangi and Amit Saini were the match umpires, while VP Sharma and Sham Lal were the judges and Joginder Singh was the technical officer.
IGP Jammu, Danish Rana, IGP Armed, SA Watali, Director Prosecution PHQ, Pawan Gupta and SSP APCR Jammu, Sham Sundar were the chief guests in the quarterfinal matches played today.
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