COAS hockey cup: PIA, SSGC, NBP register comfortable wins
PIA won 4-2 against Police. PHOTO: REUTERS
PIA, SSGC and NBP won their respective matches on the fourth day of the first Chief of the Army Staff Challenge Hockey Cup at the Army Hockey Stadium in Rawalpindi yesterday.
In the first match of the day, PIA won 4-2 against Police. The airliners started off with a penalty corner goal in the second minute and struck again in the 16th and 32nd minutes through Awais Rehman and Atif Mushtaq to make it 3-0.
Police’s Atif Baig then struck twice to reduce the lead to just one goal which meant that an unlikely comeback was on the cards. However, Rehman scored his second in the 56th minute to make it 4-2 and ensure that PIA lead the charts with three straight wins.
In the second match, SSGC won 2-0 against Navy. Akbar Ali scored the first field goal in the seventh minute to take the lead. Muhammed Sabir then in the 48th minute scored the second goal for SSGC to make it a 2-0 win.
In the last match of the day, NBP defeated Army Junior 5-0.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 26th, 2015.