Semifinalists spotted in Inter-School Basketball
Bhubaneswar : Defending champion Mother’s Public School (MPS) boys team and Delhi Public School (DPS) girls team entered the semifinal rounds of the Sahodaya Inter-Schools Basketball Tournament at MPS Ground here on Thursday. Altogether 11 boys team and six girls team are participating in the two-day-long tournament, which kicks started today. In the boy’s semifinal on Friday, Mother’s Public School and DAV Public School Unit-8 would meet ODM English Medium School and Baxi Jagabandhu English Medium School respectively. Similarly in the girls semifinal, DPS and DAV Chadrasekharpur would meet SAI International School and Mother’s Public School respectively. In the girls quarterfinal matches, MPS and SAI International edged out BJEM and DAV Pokhariput by 28-15 and 15-7 points respectively. Defending champion DPS and DAV Chandrasekharpur got direct entry to the semifinal. Boys quarterfinals results: MPS bt Sainik School 61-29,DAV (unit-8) bt DPS 38-18, ODM bt DAV (Pokhariput) 34-20, BJEM bt DAV (Chandrasekharpur) 64-40 .
Rajashree joins national training camp
Bhubaneswar: The only Odisha girl Rajashree Swain confirmed her place in the 24-member national U-18 Girls team, which will undergo a training camp conducted by The Basketball Federation of India (BFI) from November 07 to 26. The girls who are scheduled to participate in the 23rdFIBA Asia U-18 Championship in 2014 will be undergoing their first training camp at SAI Training Centre, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Selected players: Rajashree Swain (Odisha), Sangeeta Kaur, Sangeeta Das, Saranjeet Kaur (all Chattisgarh), Suman Pannu (Haryana), Supriya MS (Karnataka), Pooja Mol KS, Eliozabeth Hilarious, Vinaya Joseph, Arathi Vimal (all Kerala), Aayushi lakhotia, Princy Singh Rathore, Pooja laddha, Shruti Menon, Ishwari K Pingle (all Maharashtra), Kulwinder Kaur, Arshpreet Kaur (Punjab), Nisha Sharma (Rajasthan), R Sharmila, R Selva Mithra, P Hemlatha, K Devi Rajalakshmi, P Mathuravaani (all Tamil Nadu), Preeti Kumari (Uttar Pradesh), Francisco Garcia (foreign coach), Harjinder Singh (head coach), Shiba Maggon (coach).
State U-14 football team announced
Bhubaneswar: Football Association Odisha (FAO) has been announced the State U-14 (Boy’s) team on Wednesday for National U-14 Football Tournament schedule to be held at Kalyani (West Bengal) from November 10 to 22. Forward Dasrath Munda would lead the team, while Suraj Thapa and Suvendu Panda will accompany the team as coach and manager respectively. Odisha placed with Rajasthan, Mizoram and Haryana in the cluster-I. In the first match, Odisha would meet Rajasthan on November 10. State Team: Bikram Behera (Cuttack), Saune Marandi (Rourkela) (both goalkeeper)Saroj Kumar Das,Pintu Samal, Sk Kalam (all Cuttack), Sk Md Sahid (Nayagarh), Thakura Soren (Bhubaneswar)(all defence), Pratyush Kumar Singh, Deepak Kumar Bardda, Sarthak Sarangi (all Bhubaneswar), Priya Ranjan Naik, Sk Farhan, Sk Roshan (all Cuttack), Bablu Munda (Sambalpur), Rohit Sa (Jharsuguda) (all half), Chiranjib Sekhar Behera (Cuttack), Dasrath Munda, Sanjay Khadia (both Sambalpur), Soumesh Mohanty, Bimal Jani (both Bhubaneswar)(all forward), Suraj Thapa (coach), Suvendu Panda (manager).