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Hockey: India beats Chile 4-1 to reach final

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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 at 1704 hrs IST

Santiago, March 9: India ended its league campaign on a winning note with a 4-1 defeat of Chile en route to the final of the World Hockey Olympic qualifying tournament at the Prince of Wales Country Club here.

With their berth in the tomorrow's final already confirmed following Britain's 4-0 win against Austria, the Indians played freely and with confidence, but missed far too many scoring opportunities in the match played late yesterday.

The winner of the final will qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Drag-flick specialist V Ramachandra Raghunath was again in the thick of things scoring two goals (23rd minute, 61st), including one from India's only penalty corner to take his tournament tally to 10. Prabhjot Singh (ninth) and Bharat Chhikara (23rd) scored one apiece.

For Chile, which defended with great fortitude, Felipe Montegu converted their lone penalty corner in the 63rd minute, much to the delight of the partisan crowd.

India thus finished second overall behind Britain with 12 points, followed by Austria (9), Russia (6), Chile (3) and Mexico (0).

Although dominating much of the game, the Indian forward line again missed out on far too many scoring opportunities even granting that the Chilean defenders were on the button with their marking and covering.

The Indians rested Gurbaj Singh and Shivendra Singh for the game and the reshuffled half-line was quite solid overall despite a few blemishes.

On their part, Chile played as well as they were allowed to and their limitations denied them more success.

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