Khalsa Boys moving into the JDS Ganganagar half

2nd Match:

The second match was between the Khalsa High School and Julien Day School, Ganganagar. Khalsa attacked right from the beginning and the defence of JDS Ganganagar which stood them in such good stead did not function cohesively. Khalsa won 5-0. The scorers being Rahul Singh (7th and 8th minutes), Anuj Keshri(9th minute) and Hussenpreet Singh (17th minute) and Taramveer Singh (16th minute). Durbar Dasgupta was adjuged the best player of JDS Ganganagar and Taramveer Singh that of Khalsa High School.

Mr Gurcharan Singh, the Khalsa coach gives a pep talk to his wards a the half time

3rd Match:

The third match was a high scoring game between Julien Day School, Ganganagar and Khalsa High School. It was a pending match from the 2010 Hockey festival. Khalsa again dominated the proceedings and the ultimate score was 7-2 in favour of Khalsa. For the Khalsas, the scorers were Anuj Keshri (3rd minute), Taramveer Singh((7th minute), Rahul Singh(14th minute), Jagdev Singh (15th minute) and Rahul Singh (17th minute). Rajdeep Singh ((9th minute) and Abul Kasim (20th minute) reduced the margin for JDS Ganganagar and the final score stood 7-2 in favour of Khalsa. Omar Siddique of JDS Ganganagar and Rahul Singh of Khalsa were chosen the respective best players.

The icing on the cake came in the form of a match played at the behest of the two Julien Day School teams of Kalyani and Brahmananda. They wanted to play a match between a combined Julien Day team and a coaches/veterans side. The coaches/veterans side comprised of Clive Eastwood, Rocky Downes, Clifford Ryan, all former elite players and Srikanth, and (Dr) Shankar Kumar Chatterjee, both former amateur hockey players. The “golden oldies” matched their wards move for move and surged into the lead through a first half goal by Clive Eastwood. The students had to struggle for the equalizer through the hard tackling veteran defence which came in the fag end of the game. The veterans made up with their passion for hockey what they lacked in stamina.

JDS schools v the Coaches and Officials

4th Match:

The fourth and last match of the day was between Keshabchandra Brahmananda High School and Julien Day School Kalyani. The difference in standard was glaring as K C Brahmananda School, consisting of two players having represented Bengal in the sub-junior level tore apart the defences of JDS Kalyani. Subhankar Bag struck twice in the 4th and the 9th minutes (2-0). Abhijit Porel completed the tally in the 14th minute (3-0) while Love Shaw reduced the margin in the 17th minute for JDS Kalyani (3-1). Rajesh Malik was adjudged the best player of the K C Brahmananda High School and Subhodip Mondal that of JDS Kalyani.

The last days’ matches which were due on the 13th Feb will now be played on the 20th Feb because of the political rally to be held at the Calcutta Maidan tomorrow(13th Feb).