Tapoban, Kalinga win in Inter-School Football meet
Bhubaneswar: Tapoban High School and Kalinga Bidyapitha defeated Prabhujee English Medium School and Ramakrushna Mission respectively in the 24th Kalinga Marine-Vivekananda Memorial Inter-School Football Tournament at Unit High School Ground here on Tuesday. Racing from the back Tapoban edged out Prabhujee by 4-1 goals in group-B league match. Prabhujee got the lead through the goal by A Biswal in the third minute. But the team failed to maintain the lead, M Tudu scored the equaliser in the sixth minute and his-mate B Murmu netted double goals in the 19th and 31st minute. In between anther goal was scored by R Sikar in the 30th minute. Similarly in group-C league match, Bikash Naik of Kalinga Bidyapitha netted double goals in the 37th and 49th minutes and powered the team to thrash Ramakrushna Mission by 3-1 goals. Rajesh Bhoi of the winning team scored a goal in the 43rd minute. Ramakrushna’s loxman Soren netted the solitary goal in the 31st minute. Shekhawat Khan, Saroj Maharana, Amil Nayak, Rajendra Barik, Chandrakanta Barik and Bapi Das were conducted the league matches as referees. KISS and DAV Chandrashekharpur would meet Government High School Unit-6 and Aurobinda Integral School respectively on Wednesday.
Swayams leads in Kesabananda memorial chess
Bhubaneswar: Second seed IM Swayams Mishra defeated Chakrabarti Reddy M in the fourth round and scored four points and retains his overnight lead in the 2nd Keshabananda Das Memorial All India Fide Rating Chess Championship (above 2000) here on Tuesday. Swayams followed by International Master Shyam Nikil with 3.5 points and seven players shared the third place with three points each.
Top ten board results: IM Swayams Mishra (4) bt Chakravarthi Reddy M (3), IM Shyam Nikil (3.5) bt Gusain Himal (2.5), IM Anwesh Upadhyaya (2.5) draw Hemant Sharma (del) (3), Shreyansh Daklia (3) bt FM Das Sayantan (2), Pranavananda V (3) bt IM Suvrajit Saha (2), Ravi Teja S (3) bt K. Praneeth Surya (2), IM Deshmukh Anup (3) bt Krishna Teja N (2), Surendran N (3) bt FM Ramakrishna J. (2), IM Swapnil S. Dhopade (2.5) bt Sekar B (1.5), IM Sangma Rahul (2.5) bt Kaustuv Kundu (1.5).