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40th Indian Oil Servo Surjit Hockey Tournament Indian Oil in the semi-finals Punjab Police Jalandhar defeated last year's winner Indian Railways



40th Indian Oil Servo Surjit Hockey Tournament Indian Oil in the semi-finals Punjab Police Jalandhar defeated last year's winner Indian Railways Jalandhar October 31 ( ) Indian Oil Mumbai defeated Punjab and Sind Bank Delhi by a margin of 7-6 to enter the semi-finals of the 40th Indian Oil Servo Surjit Hockey Tournament. Two league matches were played on the seventh day of the ongoing tournament at the local Olympian Surjit Hockey Stadium. Indian Oil international Gurjinder Singh and Punjab and Sindh Bank's Parmveer Singh scored hat-tricks. Indian Oil secured 9 points with three wins from three league matches and became the first team from Pool A to reach the semi-finals. In the second match, the Punjab Police team beat last year's winners Indian Railways Delhi 3-1 to secure 6 points with two consecutive wins in the league round and almost secure a place in the semi-finals. The first match was played in Pool A between former winners Indian Oil Mumbai and Punjab & Sind Bank Delhi. In the fourth minute of the game, Bank's Arshdeep Singh scored a field goal to make the score 1-0. In the 18th minute and 26th minute, Indian Oil's Gurjinder Singh scored two goals to make it 2-1. In the 29th minute, Olympian Dilpreet Singh scored for Indian Oil to make the score 3-1. In the next minute, Bank's Surinder Singh scored a goal to make the score 2-3. In the 34th minute, Bank's Parmveer Singh equalized by scoring a goal. In the 35th minute, Indian Oil's Gurjinder Singh completed his hat-trick by scoring a penalty kick to make the score 4-3. In the 38th minute, Olympian Simranjit Singh of Indian Oil made the score 5-3. In the 39th minute, Bank's Paramveer Singh scored a goal to make the score 4-5. In the 45th minute, Afan Yusuf scored a goal for Indian Oil to make the score 6-4. In the 46th minute of the game, Indian Oil's Arshdeep Singh scored a field goal to make the score 7-4. In the 48th minute, Bank's Paramveer Singh completed his hat-trick and made the score 5-7. In the 54th minute of the game, Bank's Paramveer Singh made the score 6-7 by scoring a penalty corner. Punjab and Sind Bank lost all the league matches and went out of the tournament without opening an account. The second match was played in Pool B between Indian Railways and Punjab Police. In the 20th minute of the game, Punjab Police's Olympian Ramandeep Singh scored a field goal to make the score 1-0. In the 24th minute of the game, Olympian Manpreet Singh scored through a penalty corner to give Punjab Police a 2-0 lead. In the 28th minute of the game, international player Jasjit Singh Kular from Railways scored a penalty corner to make the score 1-2. In the 43rd minute of the game, Punjab Police's Olympian Manpreet Singh scored a penalty corner to make the score 3-1. The chief guest of today's matches Naresh Mittal (Lovely Group) introduced the teams. On this occasion, Hockey Punjab General Secretary Amrik Singh Powar, Tarsem Singh Powar, Olympian Balwinder Shammi, Olympian Rajinder Singh, Iqbal Sandhu, Jatin Mahaj