{"id":1587,"date":"2011-12-20T14:10:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2011-12-20T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:10:51","slug":"junior-hockey-semifinalists-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"Junior Hockey: Semifinalists decided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pune: <\/strong>Nine days after 27 teams began the quest, it is down to  four\u2014two from north and two championing the cause of east in the 1st  Hockey India Junior Men\u2019s National hockey championship at the Balewadi  Sports Complex Synthetic turf here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After  Tuesday\u2019s rest, Punjab meets Odisha in the first semifinal, while  Jharkhand takes on Haryana in the second here on Wednesday\u2014all with  contrasting styles of play.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab looks most compact side who  play the vibrant brand of hockey that the state is known for with  captain Talwinder Singh controlling the game from the middle.<\/p>\n<p>Haryana  is brash and brutal. Even though that does not guarantee a win every  time the team takes to the turf, but their approach has been positive,  specially needed to silence a team like Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy,  which mixes two styles nicely but are yet to get their grip.<\/p>\n<p>On  the other side, Odisha and Jharkhand rely mostly on the tribal players,  who make up 80 percent of their squads and play the sport in the true  sense of team work. Even though Odisha hasn\u2019t had enough match practice  as their pool was reduced to just two teams, this team led by Stanli  Victor Minz should qualify as dark horse of the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Jharkhand  must be the least liked team here after they defeated host Maharashtra,  but captain Kiro Xess has used his arsenal well with the strikers  responding well to his plans. Anil Xaxa and Rajin Kandulna, who scored  the golden goal against Maharashtra, will be the key players to watch  out for.<\/p>\n<p>Two strikers Mandeep Singh of Punjab and Malak Singh of  Haryana must qualify as scoring machines given that the two have so far  scored 14 and 9 goals respectively in the three league matches and one  quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>It was Mandeep who struck the quintuple on the  opening day of the championship against Puducherry and ended up scoring  seven goals in that match. Malak has been more restraint, but he too got  a quadruple to show for, scoring six in all against Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p>Even  though Malak was not among those who scored against Madhya Pradesh in  the quarterfinal, he was instrumental in setting up the moves that  floored the high-flying MP team.<\/p>\n<p>Hansraj Ramphal, Ranjit Singh  and Naveen Antil have been among goals, so when Haryana takes on  Jharkhand, it surely will be a clash of styles and attitude.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s Fixtures: SF1: Punjab v Odisha \u201312 noon.<br \/>SF2: Jharkhand v Haryana \u20133 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pune: <\/strong>Nine days after 27 teams began the quest, it is down to  four\u2014two from north and two championing the cause of east in the 1st  Hockey India Junior Men\u2019s National hockey championship at the Balewadi  Sports Complex Synthetic turf here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Junior Hockey: Semifinalists decided - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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