Chandigarh, April 23
Hindon Area clinched the Western Air Command Inter-Area Handball Championship-2004 from the reigning champion, Chandigarh Area. They defeated the defenders 24-21 in a neck and neck fight during the final match played at 12 Wing Air Force Station here today. At half-time, the score was 7-8 with Chandigarh maintaining the lead of one goal. At the end of the given time, there was a tie with the score being 18 all. In the extra time of 10 minutes, Hindon surged ahead and took the score to 21-19 in the first 5 minutes and maintained the lead to finish with the final score of 24-21.

For the winning team, N.K. Malik was the highest scorer with eight goals, followed by R.S. Rawat 6, R. Tanwar 5, Y. Singh 4 and V. Singh 1 goal. Prakash with six goals was the highest scorer for the losers, while R.K. Singh and G.V. Reddy scored 4 goals each and U.C. Dahiya and Jayan scored three goals each. S.K. Gulia also scored 1 goal.