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CHENNAI:
Chennai Tamil Nadu Dragons pulled disconnected a valiant 5-4 shootout triumph aft a pulsating contention ended 4-4 successful regularisation clip successful the Hockey India League astatine the SDAT–Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium present connected Friday. Dragons climbed to the apical of the array with 7 points from 3 matches arsenic the league moves to Ranchi from January 11 to 16.
First triumph for Soorma
Earlier, JSW Soorma HC registered its archetypal win, prevailing 3-1 implicit Hyderabad Toofans successful a shootout aft the teams were locked 1-1 astatine the extremity of regularisation time.
Late strike
Just erstwhile it appeared Dragons had sealed the match, pursuing a superb deflection by section lad K. Selvaraj, Aditya Lalage stunned the location assemblage with a superb goal, smashing it location to unit the contention into a shootout.
Dragons replaced first-choice goalkeeper David Harte, who was outstanding passim the 4 quarters with a bid of good saves, with Prince Deep Singh for the shootout and it paid off, for the 2nd time. With the tie-breaker locked 4-4, Mohammed Raheel calmly slipped the shot done the legs of Tomas Santiago to clinch victory.
Domene’s heroics successful vain
For Pipers, Tomas Domene stood out, scoring a brace successful regularisation clip and converting each 4 of his shootout attempts, but his efforts went successful vain.
For Soorma, skipper Harmanpreet Singh sealed the triumph by converting a punishment stroke, awarded aft defender Nicolas Della Torre opted for a video referral pursuing a stick-check by Toofans goalkeeper Bikramjit Singh.
The results: TN Dragons 4 (Rohidas 9, Kaufmann 17, Craig 18, Selvaraj 40) drew with SG Pipers 4 (Domene 13, 18-ps, Willot 38-pc, Aditya 59). Dragons won the shootout 5-4.
JSW Soorma HC 1 (Harmanpreet 20-pc) drew with Hyderabad Toofans 1 (Amandeep Lakra 46-pc). Soorma won the shootout 3-1.
