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Day 69.

Thursday, November 17, 2011 saw the doughty hockey team of S.G.T.B. Khalsa College steamroll another bona fide side which belonged to Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and yours truly was there watching the events unfold and what transpired was nothing short of an amazing moment which grasped every atom in the air and extracted the fun element out of it.
The Competition -

• The Inter- College Hockey Tournament, University of Delhi was held between 14 to 17 November, 2011, and the final match was played betwixt the above mentioned teams in our very own Sant Harchand Singh Longowal Sports Complex, which has the very best facilities for indoor sports, has a pavilion, a gymnasium and offices. Not to forget the outdoor Basketball and Volleyball courts. Well, I can write a whole blog on that but, I digress.
• This was match number 10 of the Hockey Tournament and Khalsa College's 6-3 victory over Motilal Nehru College, the other day made them the favorites for this final match against SRCC, who were a bit under pressure after their loss at the hands of Motilal Nehru College by 5-2.

First Half -

• Since the commencement of the match at around 12:20 pm,Team Khalsa showed the reason why they had enough firepower to cause an upset by keeping the ball in their possession with some brilliant passes. The boys in blue who represented Team Khalsa were led by jersey number 4, i.e. Piyush Upadhyay and the very essential task of Goal Keeping was performed by jersey number 16, i.e. Naveen Chillar.
• At 12:47 p.m.,Team Khalsa sent a wave of bliss among the crowd as they scored their first goal of the day and took a goal lead over the boys in red from SRCC. This further gave a boost to Team Khalsa and the midfield took the game by the scruff of the neck which helped team blue defeat team red by seven goals to nil. Soon after their first goal team Khalsa substituted jersey number 9 with number 18, 12:50 pm, to be more specific. As the half-time (which happened at 12:57 pm) drew nearer, Team Khalsa ensured that Team SRCC, go out with nothing in their hands.

Second Half -

• The second half unlike the first, was full of penalty corners. Team captain's motivational words, kept Team Khalsa going as they scored goals in quick succession since the commencement of second half. A splendid goal was done by Team Khalsa at 1:26 pm as they took their 5-0 lead to 6-0.
• Like I said before, it was all about penalties in this half and at 1:31 penalty chance was given to Team Khalsa but they couldn't capitalize. However, another penalty corner was converted into a goal at 1:33 allowing them to take a lead by 7 goals to nil. With the blowing of whistle at 1:34, the crowd and the players were overjoyed. The entire stadium was dancing to the beats of dhol and boys in blue didn't disappoint their home crowd and brought the crown with themselves.

In 1986-87, three of our hockey players Vimal, Harendra Singh and Satinder Sharma were chosen for the Combined Universities tour of the German Democratic Republic. Defender Harendra Singh became a senior international in 1989 and was a silver medalist in the 1990 Beijing Asian Games. Let's hope that these young players of today, make our college and our nation more proud and bring more glory by reaching the zeniths untouched.