HIL | Lancers show too good for Pipers

Nicholas Bandurak drew first blood for Kalinga Lancers.
| Photograph Credit score: R.V. MOORTHY
Thierry Brinkman struck an impressive brace as Vedanta Kalinga Lancers decimated Delhi SG Pipers 5-1 within the Hockey India League on the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium right here on Thursday.
Lancers’ third win improved their place to the third spot, whereas Pipers, who wasted 11 penalty corners, continued to languish on the backside after their sixth successive defeat.
Pipers confirmed promise with 10 circle entries within the opening interval earlier than flattering to deceive.
Lancers, who penetrated the ‘D’ 4 occasions, went up within the eleventh minute. Briton Nicholas Bandurak dashed into the circle and unleashed a shot earlier than spectacularly scoring off the rebound.
Pipers moved the ball effectively on each flanks and saved the Lancers beneath stress with extra raids. Within the closing moments of the second quarter, Jake Whetton’s lengthy cross couldn’t be utilised by Iktidar Ishrat as Pipers struggled with their ending.
Pipers continued to press and secured three extra penalty corners near the half-time, however couldn’t put it previous the vigilant Krishan Pathak.
Lancers made good use of the counter-attacks to seize the momentum by getting 4 targets inside 9 minutes of the third quarter whilst Pipers missed the providers of Jarmanpreet Singh on the again.
The Belgian pair of Alex Hendrickx and Arthur van Doren mixed effectively to transform a brief nook by way of a variation because the latter deflected within the former’s correct flick.
Brinkman stole the ball from Varun Kumar and went in to fit it in. Minutes later, with goalkeeper Pawan grounded, he pounced on one other unfastened ball to attain his second.
Gursahibjit Singh tapped in a cross from the correct to make it 5-0.
Corey Weyer’s reverse hit following a solo run lowered the margin within the ultimate quarter.
Girls’s matches
The ladies’s league will make its first look right here on Friday with Pipers taking up JSW Soorma Hockey Membership. Odisha Warriors will meet Shrachi Rarh Bengal Tigers within the different ladies’s match scheduled right here on Sunday.
The consequence: Vedanta Kalinga Lancers 5 (Bandurak 11, van Doren 36, Brinkman 38, 43, Gursahibjit 45) bt Delhi SG Pipers 1 (Weyer 46).
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