IRC, Ramakrushna win in Football meet
Bhubaneswar: IRC Village High School and Ramakrushna Sikhya Kendra defeated Prabhujee English Medium School and Ramakrushna Mission respectively in the 24th Kalinga Marine Vivekananda Memorial Inter-School Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Thursday. In group-B league match, Madhu Kisku and Dipu Patra of IRC scored a goal each in the 22nd and 36th minute respectively and powered the team to beat Prabhujee by 2-0 goals with the win IRC gathered three points and Prabhujee lost both of their league matches and out of the tournament. Similarly, in another league round match of the day, racing from the back Ramakrushna Sikhya Kendra team edged out Ramakrushna Mission by 3-2 goals. Mission got the lead through the goal by Prabin Marandi in the 12th minute. But Baidyanath Murmu scored the equaliser in the 30th minute. After the change of sides, Tukuna Hemkam nailed double goals in the 37th and 45th minutes respectively. In the last season Ramachandra Soren of Mission scored a goal in the 48th minute. After two defeat in a row Ramakrushna Mission lost the race from the group round. Durga Routary, Sudip Das, Durga Achary, Somanath Barik and Chandrakanta Barik were the official who conducted the matches as referees.Aurobindo Integral School and KISS School would meet Vivekananda School Unit-4 and Xavier School Khandagiri respectively.
Swayams, Ansuman win in Memorial Chess
Bhubaneswar: Second seed Swayams Mishra of Odisha scored 5.5 points by the end of seventh round and emerged champion in the above 2000 category and Ansuman Samal of Odisha gathered 8.5 points by the end of tenth round and abgged the top prize in the below 200o category of the 2nd All India Kesabananda Memorial Chess Tournament, which concluded here on Thursday., being organised by Khurda District Chess Association (KDCA) in association with All Odisha Chess Association (AOCA). Shyam Nikil P of Tamil Nadu and Hemant Sharma (del) scored five points each and finished second and third. Top three finishers of the above 2000 rating event got Rs 50,000, 30,000 and 20,000 respectively. Similarly in the below 2000 event, Ansuman Samal, Ajay Krishna S of Tamil Nadu and Diwan Rajesh of Madhya Pradesh were the top three finishers of the above 2000 rating event got Rs 50,000, 30,000 and 20,000 respectively. Toptal 44 and 196 players we participated in the above 2000 and below 2000 events respectively. DV Ravi distributed the trophies as the chief guest of the closing cerimony in presence of organising secretary Surayakanta Das, AOCA secretary Vivek Tibarewal, Subhasish Patnaik, Sekhar Sahoo, Biswajit Ray and Suresh Chandra Sahu.