In Belgium, today, Indian Women's Team kept their Olympic qualification dreams alive by beating lower-ranked Italy in the shoot-out in a classification match of the Hockey World League Semifinals. At the KHC Dragons Stadium at Antwerp, the Indian hockey eves, ranked 13 in the world, prevailed 5-4 over world rank 16 Italy in the shoot-out of the play-off match for the fifth to eighth positions. Earlier, both the teams were locked at 1-1 at the end of the regulation 60 minutes. The ensuing shoot-out also failed to break the deadlock as both the teams scored four times each from their five shots and the contest went to sudden-death. Taking the first try in sudden-death, Rani Rampal shot on target before goalkeeper Savita brought off a fine save against Giuliana Ruggieri to spark celebrations in the Indian camp. Rani Rampal had earlier scored the equaliser for India in the 33rd minute after Italy opened the scoring against the run of play in the ninth minute of the contest. The victory takes India into the play-off for the fifth and sixth spot on Saturday, where they will face the winner of the another classification contest between hosts Belgium and Japan. If Indian Eves win that match, they will qualify for the Rio Olympics. India's only previous appearance in the women's hockey tournament of the Olympics was in 1980.