Odisha beat Baroda in Buchi Babu cricket
Bhubaneswar: Tukuna Sahoo of Odisha scalped seven wickets and powered the team to beat Baroda by massive 222 runs in their two day long All India Buchi Babu Invitational Cricket Tournament at Chennai on Tuesday. In reply to Odisha's massive 418 runs, Baroda innings bundle out for 196 runs in 82.5 overs. The credit goes to Tukuna Sahoo who bagged seven wickets by giving only 60 runs. Earlier on Monday, Govind Poddar of the winning team smashed 161 runs and the team dominated the day one and opener Pratik Das and Girija Rout made a strong platform for Odisha by stitching 108 runs. While Pratik scored 61 runs and Girija scored 57 runs. Dependable batsman Govind Poddar made use of the platform and scored 161 runs in the process he and skipper Biplab Samanatry contributed 104 runs for the fourth wicket.
Brief score: Odisha 418/10 in 97.1 overs (Pratik Das 61, Girija Rout 57, Govind Poddar 161, Biplab Samantray 54, Arvind Kumar Singh 27) bt Baroda 196/10 in 82.5 overs (Tukuna Sahoo 7/60, Dhiraj Singh 2/58) by 222 runs.
Three top in Kesabananda Memorial chess
Bhubaneswar: Three players scored three points by the end of third rounds in the 3rd Keshabananda Das Memorial All India FIDE Rating Chess Championship (1900 and above rating) here at Tuesday, being organised by Kordha District Chess Association. IM Praveen Kumar C, IM Narayanan Srinath and M Abhijith are the three players shared the top place with three points each. Abhijith (1924 rating) of Kerala caused two big upset of the day by defeating IM of Kerala Thejkumar MS (2439 rating) and IM Deshmukh Anup (2251 rating) in the second and third round respectively. local players Utkal Ranjan Sahoo and WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty bagged 2.5 points each and shared the third place with 10 others.
Sundargarh enters Women Football semis
Bhubaneswar: Sundargarh team entered the semifinal of the All Odisha State level Women Football Tournament by defeating Urmila Football Club of Bhubaneswar by 5-0 goals at Ispat Stadium in Rourkela on Tuesday being organised by Panposh Sports Association (PSA). While Pyari Xaxa of winning team scored four goals in 10th, 23rd, 34th and 47th minute and her-mate Jobamani Soren scored one goal in 51st minute. Chitra Patra, Bishnupriya Dash, Prasant Kumar Pal and Ajaya Mohanty conducted the match as officials. Rourkela Tahasildar PK Sahoo inaugurated the match as chief guest in presence of Ajya Kumar Jena, DIPRO, Rourkela, l.M.Pradhan, Regional Director, DAV Zone-II and PSA officials Grogary Minz, Sushant Behera, Mahendra Mishra and Bikram Swain. Cuttack would meet Rajganpur on Wednesday in the league round match.
KISS wins Inter-School Football inaugural
Bhubaneswar: Defending champion KISS started their journey by defeating Mother Public School by 2-0 goals in the inaugural match of the 25th Kalinga Marine Vivekananda Memorial Inter-School Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground on Tuesday, being organized by Unit-6 Athletic Association. Prakash Murmu of the winning team scored the first goal in the 24th minute. After the change of sides his-mate Sunil Murmu double lead in the 39th minutes. Prakash of the KISS received the man of the match award. Kabi Nayak, Saroj Maharana, Durga Routary and Prakash Das were conducted the match as referees. Bibekananda School and Venketeswar English Medium School would meet Government Boys High School, IRC Village and Prabhujee English Medium School respectively. Altogether 24 schools of the city are participating in the silver jubilee inter-school football meet which would conclude on September 2. The teams are divided in eight different groups, two teams of each groups would be qualify for the pre-quarterfinal rounds. To make the silver jubilee year memorable, we will conduct sports quiz, penalty kick tourney, target shoot and long shoot competition, said secretary Dillip Das. Former Minister Padmanav Behera inaugurated the tournament and unveiled the jersey. Tata Steel Chief Resident Executive Manikant Naik, Kalinga Marine Managing Director Maina Mishra, Special Olympics Bharat Area Director (Odisha Chapter) Prakash Kumar Rath, Unit-VI Athletic Association president Tapan Kumar Mohanty, vice-president Prafull Kumar Mishra and secretary Dilip Das were present in the opening ceremony. Ala Raka Khan, one of the all-time greats of Odisha football, was felicitated on the occasion.
Srabani bags double silver in Federation Cup
Bhubaneswar: Odisha's ace sprinter Srabanai Nanda bagged silver medal each in the 100 and 200 meter race of the 18th Federation Cup National Senior Athletic Championship is going on at Patiala. On Tuesday, Srabani Nanda secured silver medal in 200 mtr run by claiming the timing of 24.02 second. In the event, Asha Roy of West Bengal claimed the gold medal with timing of 23.89 second and the bronze medal bagged by Archana of Tamil Nadu with timing of 24.94 seconds. Earlier on Sunday, Srabani secured silver medal in 100 mtr run with timing of 11.86 sec. While Sradha Narayan of Tamilnadu bagged gold with timing of 11.72 sec and Asha Roy of West Bengal secured bronze Medal with timing of 11.92 sec.