Gumla: The Jharkhand host reached the final of the 11th Junior Women’s National Championship by beating Maharashtra 3-1 on Thursday.
Championships are detained in the Simdega district.
Haryana also reached the final beat Chandigarh of 3-2.
The final will be held on Friday.
Jharkhand began to dominate the game from the start.
The home team scored all three goals in the corner of the penalty which was hit by Ropni Kumari in the 14th minute, Deepika Soreng in the 42nd minute and Kajal Bara in the 50th minute.
After the Jharkhand reached the first goal, Maharashtra equalized it in 15 minutes, but in the end the home team stormed into the final.
“Today the players in the future we don’t have the right combination and play defensive while one of our stickers, Himanshi Gawande can’t play when he was injured during the quarter-final match,” said Maharashtra Vaishali Sule coach.
In another match, Dhapa Devi Chandigarh appeared as a star in the semi-finals playing spectacular hockey and the defense line of his team was also executed well thwarting most of the opponent’s attacks.
Until the third quarter, the two teams were locked at 2-2.
But only 6 minutes before the schedule time, Umpire gave a penalty angle to Haryana and the goal was stated.
Haryana’s Neelam pocketed a brace in the 2nd and 54 minutes through the corner of the penalty and Preeti added one goal to win the match.
Jharkhand Hockey President Ball Bholanath Singh and Hockey Simdega President Manoj Konbegi congratulated the players as soon as the team strengthened his place in the final.
“We hope that Jharkhand will make a hat-trick win this year too,” Singh said.