Sonepat: Haryana muscled past Odisha 6-1 here on Tuesday to set up a mouth watering semi-final clash with runners-up Jharkhand in the 2nd Hockey India Junior Women National Championship at Motilal Nehru School of Sports, here.

In the semi-finals to be played on Thursday October 11, defending champion Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy take on Chandigarh at 2 PM while last year runners-up Jharkhand will clash with the hosts Haryana at 4PM.

Navneet Kaur scored thrice as Haryana raced to a 6-1 goals win against Odisha in the fourth quarterfinal match.

Haryana opened their account through a field goal scored by Navneet Kaur in the 15th minute. Odisha tried to reduce the margin in the 20th minute with the penalty corner successfully converted by Ambika Toppo.

Haryana who led 3-1 in the first half scored two another goals through Jyoti Gupta in 23rd and Navjot Kaur in 31st minute via penalty corner.
For Haryana Jyoti Gupta (38), Navneet Kaur (41) and (64) to put 6-1 on board.

In the 3rd Quarterfinal match played earlier in the day, Chandigarh scored a hard-fought 5-3 win against Uttar Pradesh to enter the semi-finals.
Chandigarh made an impressive start leading 4-2 in the first half.

Own goal by Chandigarh helped Uttar Pradesh to take an early lead in the 3rd minute but they fought hard and leveled the score in the 6th minute through penalty corner converted by Pooja Rani. For Chandigarh Navdeep converted two penalty corners in three minutes taking lead to 3-1. Karishma Singh scored another goal for Chandigarh through a direct pass from Hardeep Kaur in the 14th minute.

Uttar Pradesh reduces the margin in the 22nd minute with a field goal by Pratibha Chaudhary. Both the teams tried to restrict each other in the second half but Chandigarh successfully availed penalty corner opportunity in the 55th minute through Pooja Rani putting 5-2 on board. Three minutes later Pratibha Chaudhary scored another goal for Uttar Pradesh through penalty corner.

By Indian Sports News Network