Big win for Orissa

NALGONDA, JANUARY 30: Defending champions Orissa started their title defence on the right note when they toyed with Kerala 5-0 while Punjab beat Bengal 2-0 in the 9th sub-junior National hockey championship on Sunday. Four Orissa players and two from Kerala were disqualified by the medical team for being overage.

Results: Orissa 5 Vinay Prakash Kujur 4, Nageshwar Topno bt Kerala 0; Patalia 2 Rajinder Singh, Sukhvinder Singh bt Vidarbha 0; UP 2 Ishaque, Khandekar drew Pondichery 2 Ravi Kumar 2; Punjab 2 Major Singh, Gurupreet Singh bt Bengal 0; Karnataka 12 Somanna 4, Chinnappa 3, Hardeep Singh, Pradeep, Suresh kumar, Ravindra, Dinesh Kumar bt Tripura 0; Bhopal 4 Rohan Kumar 2, Habib Khan, Shahabaz Khan bt Gujarat 2 K Jadhav, Pothawala; Mumbai 1 Russell bt Rajasthan 0; Delhi 1 Pawan Kumar drew Jamp;K 1 Iqbal.