The Indian women's hockey team ended their Europe Tour on a high by defeating the Belgium junior men's team 4-3 in a thrilling encounter in Antwerp on Monday.

For India, Gurjit Kaur (7th and 11th minutes) and captain Rani Rampal (13th and 33rd minutes) scored twice to give the visitors their first win of the tour, after losing 1-3 to the Netherlands' women's team and drawing Belgium's men's junior team 2-2 in the first game. The match was also Sjoerd Marijne's last as coach of the women's team, as the Dutchman will take over as coach of India's men's team.

The Indian team started the match with some enthralling attacking play as they earned a penalty corner in the seventh minute, which was well converted by drag-flicker Gurjit to give India the lead. The defender extended India's lead in the 11th minute as she converted another penalty corner to make it 2-0.

Rani also got on the score sheet as she netted the ball via a well-taken field goal in the 13th minute to further extend the lead at the end of the first quarter.

The second quarter began with goalkeeper Rajani Etimarpu making her second diving save of the match to keep the Belgians from opening their account. India displayed grit and fight throughout the second quarter as they held on to their 3-0 lead at the end of 30 minutes.

India started the third quarter with some high intensity play, which paid off for them in the 33rd minute as Rani scored her second goal of the match to make it 4-0.

However, Belgium finally managed to get past India's sturdy defence when Thibault Neven converted a penalty corner in the 38th minute to make it 1-4. The hosts produced a great field goal in the 42nd minute via William Van Dessel to end the third quarter with India still leading 4-2.

Belgium carried their momentum into the fourth quarter as well with Mathias Relik converting a penalty corner to give them their third goal in the 48th minute and reduce the margin to 3-4.

India endured a tense last 10 minutes as Belgium piled on some pressure to find the equaliser. But they held their nerve and defended as a unit to come out victorious.