3 KISS players to join national baseball camp
Bhubaneswar: Three KISS students got selected by Amateur Baseball Federation of India for the national selection trial cum coaching camp for U-12 players at Vedanta College of Education Ground, Garhmukteswar in Ghaziabad from May 11 to 25. Ananda Munda, Kesab Bhoi and Dipak Dehuri are the three players to join the camp. The national team will be selected from the camp and the team will participate in the World Cup U-12 Baseball Championship to be held at Taipei, Chinese Taipei in July.
GM, IM chess coaching camps kick off
Bhubaneswar : For the betterment of the State chess players, All Odisha Chess Association is organising grand master (GM) and international master (IM) coaching camp at different venues here on the city. WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, WGM Padmini Rout, Sidhanta Mohanty, Swayans Mishra, Debasis Das and Rakesh Jena are the six players are participating in the third GM coaching camp at KIIT Campus here from May 10 to 19. Tajikistan GM Farrukh Amonatov is conducting the camp at KIIT, while IM Shekhar Sahu conducting the IM camp in which 25 players are participating at Shital Hotel.
Semifinalists spotted in U-14 cricket
Bhubaneswar : Cuttack-A and Bhubaneswar-A would meet Balasore and Jharsuguda respectively in the one-day 50 overs semifinal matches of the OCA Inter-district U-14 Cricket Tournament at Bidanashi and Nimpur Ground on Monday. In the last super league round 40-overs matches on Saturday, the five-wicket haul of Amit Ray of Sudargarh gone to vain while the team suffered defeat from Bhubaneswar-A by huge 112 runs. Winning the Bhubaneswar-A entered the semifinal. Partha Pratim of Angul surprised Bhubaneswar-B by bagging six wickets and restricted Bhubaneswar-B innings for 116 runs in 32.5 overs. In reply, Digbijay Mishra smashed 63 runs and helped the Angul to reach the winning target for the loss of three wickets in 26.1 overs. In other matches of the day, Jharsuguda and Cuttack-A defeated Cuttack-B and Jagatsinghpur by six and 10 wickets respectively and both the team entered semifinals.
Brief score: At Ravenshaw Ground-2: Bhubaneswar-A 194/9 in 40 overs (Raghunath Malla 81; Amit Ray 5/41, Anil Singh 2/36) beat Sundargarh 82/10 in 24.5 overs (Suman Sarangi 37; Sultan Ahemad 4/10, Sourav Dash 2/20) by 112 runs.
At Nimpur Ground: Cuttack-B 116/10 in 39.1 overs (Prajwal laha 28; Mukund Senapati 3/20, Sandeep Singh 2/5) lost to Jharsuguda 118/4 in 34.2 overs (Md Saha Alam 26 n.o; Kumar Deepak Mohanta 24; Srikanta Behera 2/40) by 6 wickets.
At Bidanasi Ground: Jagatsinghpur 83/10 in 31.3 overs (Subasis Behera 2/6, Nikhil Barun 2/9, Piyush Priyadarsi 2/14) lost to Cuttack-A 85/0 in 17 overs (Punit Banerjee 46 n.o;) by 10 wickets.
At SCB Medical College Ground: Bhubaneswar-B 116/10 in 32.5 overs (Chiranjit Das 26; Partha Pratim 6/20, Chandan Singh 2/25, Keshab Bansal 2/34) lost to Angul 120/3 in 26.1 overs (Digbijay Mishra 63) by 7 wickets.