Mangalore Varsity Women's Hockey Team Excels, Qualifies for All-India Tourney
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
Mangalore, Oct 13: The Mangalore University women's team has triumphed at the south zone inter-university hockey tournament held recently at Periyar University in Tamil Nadu.
This is the first time ever that the women's team of the University has reached this far.
With this, the team has now qualified to play at the national level, during the all-India university hockey tournament to be played at VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, UP in the second week of February 2012.
On the way to the title, the team beat Andhra University 2-1, Anna University, Tirunelveli 6-1, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, 3-1, Mysore University 2-0 (QF) in the knockout stage.
In the league stage, it defeated Kerala University, Trivandrum 2-1, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 4-2 and drew with Periyar University, Salem 0-0.
Saira Banu, Trupthi, Likitha Muthanna and Ponnamma were the star performers for the team.
Dr Gerald D'Souza was the coach and Sowmya T N the manager.