Date:17/11/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/11/17/stories/2007111755312000.htm

Sport - Hockey

Creditable draw for Palakkad

MANJERI: Palakkad came up with a gallant performance to hold defending champion Thiruvananthapuram to a goalless draw in a pool ‘A’ match of the 37th State boy’s junior hockey tournament at the GBHS ground here on Friday.

However, last year’s runner-up Thrissur qualified for the semifinal by topping pool ‘D’.

Thrissur blanked Kottayam and Kasargod by identical margin of 3-0 to make grade.

In other matches, Kannur crushed Kozhikode 5-0, Ernakulam squeezed out a solitary goal win over Kollam and Alappuzha defeated Pathanamthitta 2-1.

The results:

Pool ‘A’: Alappuzha 2 (Jibin 22nd & Alex 25th ) bt Pathanamthitta 1 (Sreejith 4th); Palakkad drew with Thiruvananthapuram 0-0.

Pool ‘B’: Kannur 5 (Ashwin Raj 13th &20th, P.P. Cibil 20th, Jithil 36th, Ajeesh 47th) bt Kozhikode 0; Pool ‘C’: Ernakulam 1 (Nishanth 37th) bt Kollam 0; Ernakulam 1 (Tyson George 46th) bt Malappuram 0

Pool ‘D’: Thrissur 3 (Sahil 7th, Dinesh Kumar 14th & 49th) bt Kottayam 3-0; Thrissur 3 (Saneesh 16th, Ebnesar 26th, Sarath Babu 30th) bt Kasaragod 0.