BBCA win Niroj Memorial exhibition cricket match
Bhubaneswar: In a nail biting U-12 exhibition cricket match, Bharat Bhusan Cricket Academy (BBCA) edged out Town Club by five runs in superover of the Niroj Memorial Cricket Tournament here on Saturday. Ankit Pattnaik of BBCA smashed 42 runs and team total reached 101 runs in 20 overs for the loss of seven wickets. In reply, Town Club leveled the score in the 20 overs for the loss of five wickets. In the super over, BBCA set a target of nine runs. In reply, Town Club scored only four runs. Brief score: Bharat Bhusan Cricket Academy 101/7 in 20 overs (Ankit Pattnaik 42; Prasant 2/21) draw Town Club 101/5 in 20 overs (Hemendra 20; Binayak 3/14).
Super over; BBCA 9 runs beat Town Club 4 runs.
Swarupa bags bronze in National Weightlifting meet
Bhubaneswar: Swarupa Prusty bagged bronze medal in the 53kg junior women category of the 9th Youth, 50th Men and 26th Women Junior National Weightlifting Championship at the Tarun Ram Phookan Indoor Stadium in Guwahati on Saturday. She lifted 78kg in snatch (bronze), 99kg in clean and jerk (bronze) and total of 177 kg and bagged the overall bronze medals.
Saina emerges world youth chess champion in U-10
Bhubaneswar: Saina Salonika emerged champion in the under-10 girls categories of the World Youth Chess Championship, which concluded at UAE on Saturday. In the 11th round, Saina forced to shear the points with WFM Asadi Motahara of IRI and scored nine points and topped the point table. Saina started the meet with 14th rank, she registered seven win, four draw and finished the meet at top. She is the second Odisha girls player claimed this title. Earlier in 2008, WGM Padmini Rout bagged world championship title in U-14 category. Altogether 140 players including nine girls from India participated in the ten-day-long meet which inaugurated on December 18. Earlier, Saina bagged champion trophies in Asian School Chess Championship held at Colombo, Sri-lanka from 6th to 12th December 2010, Commonwealth Chess Championship 2012 in the Under-10 Girl category held at Chennai from 22nd November to 1st December. In U-9 categories, she grabbed gold medals in Asian School Chess Championship 2012 and Asian School Blitz Chess Championship at Delhi. In the U-8 category she received bronze medal in the World Youth Chess Championship at Caldas Novas, Brazil from 17th to 27th November 2011.
Home Guard win in Sarat Memorial football
Bhubaneswar: Racing from the back Home Guard of Cuttack edged out their city counterparts Independent Club by 2-1 goals in the 25th Sarat Tripathy Memorial All Odisha Football Tournament at Nima Sahi in Cuttack on Saturday. Sujit Soren of Independent scored the first goal in the 12th minute. Md Miraj Khalid netted the equaliser in the 27th minute. After the change of sides, Ramesh Nayak nailed the winning goal in the 60th minute. Purna Chandra Samal bagged the man of the match award. The officials who conducted the match were PK Pal, Subrat Purohit, Chandrakanta Barik, Y Chandrasekhar Rao and PK Mohanty was match commissioner. Srikanta Chattarjee, Arun Samal, Subendu Patra and Chand Club secretary Avijit Paul were present as the guest of the match. Unit-6 Athletic Association of Bhubaneswar would meet Jay Durga Club of Cuttack on Sunday.