Santiago, Mar 5: India maintained their goal-scoring spree and hammered Mexico 18-1 for their third consecutive win in the World Hockey Olympic qualifying tournament at the Prince of Wales Country Club here.

Mexico showed early promise when they forced three penalty corners in the first five minutes, but the Indians kept their composure and hit back with a vengeance.

Rajpal Singh and Prabhjot Singh did the star turn for India scoring six and four goals, respectively, including a hat-trick apiece.

Drag-flick specialist V Ramachandra Raghunath, who doubled up as a forward, struck four, three of them from penalty corners, while Shivendra Singh (2), Tushar Khandekar (1) and Sardara Singh (1) rounded off the scoring for India who led 8-0 at the break.

The Mexicans drew some consolation from their only goal that came on the stroke of full-time when Pol Moreno scrambled the ball home following a mix up in the Indian defence.

While India, who had beaten Russia 8-0 and Austria 7-3, thus have nine points while Mexico, beaten 11-0 by Great Britain and 4-0 by Chile, are virtually out of contention for the lone Olympic spot available in this tournament.