Hockey Maharashtra (HM), led by Mumbai boy Govind Nag, went down 2-9 to  Hockey Madhya Pradesh (HMP) in the quarter-finals of the Hockey India  Junior National Men's Championships in Rourkela, Odisha, recently.

Ali Ahmad (5th and 44th minute) and Zaheer Mohammad (16th and 42nd) netted a brace for HMP while Mohammad Zain Khan (15th), Mohit Karma (23rd), Mohammad Konain Dad (34th), Rahul Pal (47th) and  Arman Khan (51st) scored a goal each to complete the tally. For the Maharashtra side, Jay Kale (49th) and Ajay Naidu (58th) scored once each, but it was too little, too late.