Paragon (women) and Queen's Park (men) will put their ti­tles on the line when Paragon Hock­ey Club host its first Un­der-21 Hock­ey 5's In­door Tour­na­ment from to­day un­til Sun­day at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty, Hamil­ton-Hold­er Street, Port-of-Spain from 3 pm.

This year's edi­tion of the tour­na­ment will fol­low the new in­door rules which re­duces the num­ber of play­ers on the field of play from six to five per team.

In ad­di­tion to Paragon which will fea­ture both an A and B squad, Ven­tures, Shandy Carib Mag­no­lias and Malvern while Har­vard Mar­itime Check­ers and Notre Dame opt­ed out due to most of their play­ers be­ing un­avail­able.

The Parkites will face off with Malvern, Paragon, and Fa­ti­ma in the men's tour­na­ment.

There will al­so be a Sec­ondary Schools com­pe­ti­tion with Debe High, Queen's Park, South East Port-of-Spain, St Mary's Col­lege and Fa­ti­ma Col­lege all set to do bat­tle among the men while the girls line-up was in doubt up to press time as most of the schools in Port-of-Spain were ham­pered by their play­ers be­ing called up to the na­tion­al team for the Fourth Pan Amer­i­can Cup which takes place in Ar­genti­na next week. The teams will com­pete for tro­phies, medals and a va­ri­ety of in­di­vid­ual prizes.

Ac­cord­ing to Danielle Thomp­son, the three-day event aims to give young play­ers a chance to show­case their tal­ent while test­ing the new five-a-side hock­ey for­mat.

Thomp­son added, "It al­so seeks to reignite pub­lic in­ter­est, broad­en ex­po­sure of hock­ey in T&T, while high­light­ing the skill and ex­per­tise of the mul­ti­tude of ju­nior na­tion­al play­ers."

Tour­na­ment reg­is­tra­tion costs $300 and both clubs and schools will be al­lowed to reg­is­ter a max­i­mum of ten play­ers and en­ter up to two teams. The tour­na­ment con­tin­ues to­mor­row and Sun­day from 9 am to 8 pm.

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