News for 14 November 2021
All the news for Sunday 14 November 2021
Men's Junior World Cup: Hockey has kept pace with other sports
K. ARUMUGAM & ERROL D’CRUZ
Addition of Junior version to the Hockey World Cup changed the competitive component field hockey forever. Many nations have built their success story with the fulcrum of junior program for which the Junior World Cup offered a genuine target. Time has proved the fact that adding junior genre in the same decade in which the World Cup proper was instituted, worked wonders for the game.
Olympic medal-winning hockey team to join the ongoing national camp in Bhubaneshwar
The national camp already began on November 10 sans the members of the bronze medal-winning side 
Indian men hockey team celebrates after winning bronze at Tokyo Olympics (Source: Reuters)
Members of the historic Olympic bronze medal-winning Indian men's hockey team, including skipper Manpreet Singh and veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, will join the ongoing national camp in Bhubaneswar ahead of next month's Hero Asian Champions Trophy in Dhaka.
Beeston Claim Spoils On Clifton Robinsons' Landmark Day
Photo credit: @asandysmith (Twitter)
Two early goals saw Beeston spoil the Clifton Robinsons party as a landmark day for the Bristol-based club ended in defeat in the Vitality Women’s Premier Division.
Western and Watsonians still Top
It`s still tight at the top of the ScottishPremiership tables but in the men`s, Western have opened up a four-point lead at the top while Watsonians still lead Edinburgh University but by only two goals in the women`s competition.
GHK and Grange triumph at U18 Finals
This season’s Scottish U18 National Club Finals lived up to expectations with two thrilling matches. After two closely fought encounters, GHK won the girls’ final; and Grange boys regained the trophy they last won in 2018.
Melaka test for Negri
By Jugjet Singh
NEGRI Sembilan will face their first real test when they play Melaka in the men's Razak Cup today at the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil.
No. 1 Field Hockey to Play No. 9 Liberty Sunday
Elite Eight Matchup to take place at 1 p.m. in Piscataway
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - No. 1 Rutgers field hockey is moving on in the NCAA Tournament, having defeated Delaware in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament. After capturing the program's first NCAA Tournament win since 1986, the Scarlet Knights moved on to play Sunday. The host of the Piscataway Regional, RU will host No. 9 Liberty on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Syracuse Field Hockey Moves On To Quarterfinals of NCAAs
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Syracuse Sports Communications) – Syracuse stormed its way into the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals on Friday with a 4-1 win over 4-seed Penn State.
Pritam Siwach, a hockey champion, good samaritan
The former Indian women’s team star, a Dronacharya awardee this year, is a champion for guiding young girls out of poverty through hockey excellence.
By Avishek Roy, New Delhi
Hockey Coach Pritam Siwach receives Dronacharya Award 2021 from President Ram Nath Kovind during the National Sports Awards ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi on Saturday.(ANI)
When Indian women’s hockey team members Neha Goyal, Nisha Warsi and Sharmila were engaged in a pulsating contest against Great Britain in the bronze medal playoff at the Tokyo Olympics, their coach Pritam Rani Siwach was fighting a tumult of emotions.
Veteran PR Sreejesh 'in talks' for his biopic after Tokyo 2020 heroics
The veteran Indian goalkeeper won the FIH player of the year award for the best male goalkeeper after his Tokyo 2020 heroics.
By Samrat Chakraborty
Veteran PR Sreejesh 'in talks' for his biopic after Tokyo 2020 heroics. Picture by Alexander Hassenstein/ Getty Images
Veteran Indian goalkeeper PR Sreejesh's career in field hockey has been nothing short of inspiring. The three-time Olympian stood like a brick wall in the goal post for India at Tokyo 2020, to help them bag a podium finish with a bronze, after 41 years of medal drought in Olympics.
Two Dar Academy Boys Win Aitchison College Hockey Scholarships
By Ijaz Chaudhry
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Lahore`s Aitchison College, also called the Eton of Pakistan, has produced several distinguished sportsmen in many disciplines. These include the current Prime Minister Imran Khan who is widely regarded as Pakistan`s greatest cricketer and is the country`s only World Cup-winning captain.
The college also has a great hockey legacy. Pakistan’s last Olympic gold medal-winning team (Los Angeles 1984) had as many as three Aitchisonians among its ranks: Qasim Zia, Ayaz Mahmood and legendary Hasan Sardar- for many the greatest centre-forward of all time. Then the college's main hockey ground is named after the late Aitchisonian Jaffar Shah, a member of two gold medal-winning teams of British India (1932 & 1936).
Aitchison College's current principal Michael Thompson, who hails from the great sporting country of Australia, is very keen to see the college excel in sports once again.
A few years back, synthetic turf was laid at the Jaffar Shah hockey ground, thanks mainly to Thompson's efforts.
The Principal also desires to have strong college teams in various sports, and the talent hunt is on. Recently, the college held open trials to select three under 15 hockey players. Boys came from far and wide.
Pakistan`s premier hockey nursery, Dar Hockey Academy sent three boys for the trials. Remarkably, two of them were among the three selected.
Majid, who hails from Karachi, has been at the Dar HA for the last two years while Faisal, the boy from Peer Mahal (district Toba Tek Singh), joined the academy four years back.
They have been awarded a full scholarship along with boarding and lodging at the Aitchison college hostel. The boys will play and get coaching at the college. However, their affiliation with the parent academy would continue. Twice, every week, they will join the Dar Hockey Academy training sessions at the National Hockey Stadium, Lahore.
Ijaz Chaudhry writes on hockey & other sports. For more about him and his work, visit: www.sportscorrespondent.info
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