Lahore thrashed Rawalpindi with a record number of 42 goals in the Inter Division Youth U-16 Girls Hockey Championship at the National Hockey Stadium here Thursday. Lahore scored a goal every one-and-a-half minute. Interestingly, the entire 70-minute game was played in the Rawalpindi half with majority of the time the players remaining in the visiting team’s goal area.
Kanwal Shehzadi and Maida came up with five hat-tricks each, Shafaq recorded three and Emal one with their overall goal count such that Kanwal Shehzadi scored 16 goals, Maida hit 15, Shafaq seven, Emal three while Shaneel scored one goal to leave Rawalpindi girls in shambles. In the second match, Bahawalpur outplayed Sargodha 10-0. Tehmina scored four, Riffat and Maira added identical two goals whereas Fozia and Noreen scored one each. In the third match, Multan defeated Sahiwal 4-0.
Sofia Saeed, Qurat-ul-Ain, Bakhtawar and Kalsoom shared one goal each. In the last match of the day, Gujranwala beat DG Khan 2-0. Sadaf and Muqadas secured one goal each.