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Presentation of the World League Round 1 took place in Salamanca

Josefina Chávez Diaz



City dignitaries celebrated hosting the event and invited the guests to the “Siglo XXI” Stadium.

KARACHI: A hat-trick by Khairullah helped Pakistan register a whopping 14-0 win over Hong Kong in the Boys U18 Asia Hockey Cup as the Colts progressed to the semi-finals of the event at the Maulana Bhashani Hockey Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh yesterday.

K. Arumugam



When a chronicler thinks of Dhaka in the hockey context, what must strike him tellingly is difficult to say. The city offered India telling victory and also telling blow. Around the same time Pullela Gopi Chand, who mentored Saina Newal and PV Sindhu, both Olympic medallist, won his All England Badminton Championship, around the same time VV Laxman set the Kolkata turf on fire against Australia to win a historic cricket test, Indian hockey players silently silenced Pakistan in a tie-break to win an invitational tournament, Prime Minister Cup. 26 years ago, on the same turf, Indian men lost the Asia Cup title to Pakistan, but their misconduct against Japan umpire led to the nation touch nadir within a year as a repercussion.

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After sweating for six years amidst hundreds of urban poor from five metro cities of India, and after earning a plethora of acclaim from Hockey India to President of India for the concept and execution, the globally known One Thousand Hockey Legs project got a return gift from one of the stakeholders this week when its Delhi boy Kishore Arya, 17, got selected for India’s National team for the fourth Sub-Junior Asia Cup.

Banbridge’s Matthew Bell says his first experience of the EHL “was unlike anything I had ever experienced before” when, as a teenager, he made his debut in the competition.

By BRIAN YONGA


Francis Kariuki of Strathmore University controls the ball during their Kenya Hockey Union men's Premier League match against Nakuru Club on September 25, 2016. PHOTO | MARTIN MUKANGU |  NATION MEDIA GROUP

Newcomers Amira Sailors are surprise leaders of Kenya Hockey Union women’s Premier League standings after the weekend’s round of matches.

ROBERT VAN ROYEN


Jenny Storey helped Canterbury win the women's NHL title, but the Ramesh Patel Shield is gone. John Davidson

Canterbury Hockey has handed back the Ramesh Patel Shield it was wrongly presented with less than a fortnight ago.

Men's and women's teams compete for automatic qualification for HWL R2



It’s Hockey World League (HWL) Round One time in Salamanca, Mexico, as four men’s teams and three women’s teams from across the Pan American region take to the pitch and resume old continental rivalries.

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The New Zealand Under 21 Men have been named for the Sultan of Johor Cup in Malaysia next month.

by Ken Borland



The Milo Maropeng Cavemen, who mixed a core of the triumphant Southern Gauteng interprovincial team with bright talents from elsewhere in the country, claimed the inaugural Premier Hockey League title at the weekend in what captain Rassie Pieterse said was a sign of the future direction South African hockey needs to take.

By Mike Haymonds

MARK Gleghorne scored a hat-trick in Beeston’s 3-2 win over Brooklands Manchester University which kept his side in third place in the Premier Division as all the top teams earned victories on the second day of the season.

English Olympian Ashley Jackson will return “home” to East Grinstead from Holcombe this week following a year with the Kent club but he never fully settled in the new environment.

Beestons Esme Burge celebrates scoring the first goal Credit David Kissman

Beeston ran out 4-0 winners over Belper in the Investec Women’s North Conference in front of a bumper crowd under the lights at the Nottingham Hockey Centre this past Friday night.

By Elizabeth Mburugu


KENYA HOCKEY UNION LADIES PREMIER LEAGUE Amira Sailors' Jedida Zawadi and Grace Wangari, left, of Kenyatta University during Kenya Hockey Union Premier Women's League at City Park on Saturday, July 23, 2016. [PHOTO: JONAH ONYANGO/STANDARD]

New kids on the block Amira Sailors leaped to the summit of the Kenya Hockey Union women’s league table following their 5-0 victory over Daystar University.

By Sophia C. DiCara

Freshman forward Bente van Vlijmen had a stellar weekend for the field hockey squad, scoring three of Harvard’s five goals to lead the group over Yale by a 2-0 score and No. 19 Maine by a 3-1 count.

By James Crabtree-Hannigan

After No. 6 Maryland field hockey's 4-2 win at No. 15 Iowa on Friday, coach Missy Meharg was happy with the result but didn't feel her team played its best.

By Nabil Tahir

KARACHI: In a massive step that was long overdue and would go a long way in reviving hockey in the country, Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has asked unemployed players to contact them so that they could be accommodated with jobs in different departments.

Kampong’s Under-14 “JC1” team kept alive the club’s hopes of retaining the ABN AMBRO Junior EHL as they won the Dutch qualifying rounds at Almere on Sunday.

Glasgow National Hockey Centre played host to the U16/U18 Boys Inter Districts, the first event in the Youth Calendar for season 2016-2017.

GEORGIA FORRESTER


Palmerston North is to get a new hockey turf. Warwick Smith

A new internationally recognised hockey turf looks set to be built at Massey University, New Zealand, which is committing $1 million to the project.

by Dil Bahra



Kenya's sport has lost one of its most well known and longest serving sports personalities with the passing of Jasmer Singh Grewal on Wednesday.

Recruitment campaign launched for new HPD



Hockey Australia has commenced the search for its new High Performance Director.