Gyan Deep Hindi High school, Gandhinagar thrashed St. Joseph's High School, Baramulla 8-0 in their Pool C league match of the 38th junior boys (under-17) Nehru hockey tournament in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Leading 3-0 at half time, Gyan Deep HSS opened the scoring in the seventh minute itself and kept pumping in the goals till the dying minutes of the game. Md Aamir (25th minute, 50th, 57th) scored thrice while Shailesh Paswan and Nripennarayan scored a brace each while Ishan Upadhyay scored once.

In other matches for the day, Government High Sr Sec School, Kollam drew 3-3 with Govt Boys Hr Sec School, Jashpur -- Shuin, Sarabin and Vivek scored for Kerala while Breej Minj, Ashwin Tirkey and Jerald Kujur scored for Jashpur -- and Govt Sr Sec School, Ludhiana drew with NCC (A) 2-2. Md Kavesh Warsi and Prashik Khobragadage scored for NCC while Gagandeep Singh converted two PCs for Ludhiana.