Meenakshi leads in All India FIDE Rating Chess
Bhubaneswar: Third seeded GM Neelotpal defeated Pradeep Kumar RA of Tamil Nadu in the fifth round and scored 4.5 points and shared the top place with WGM Meenakshi Subaraman and IM Narayanan Srinath in the 3rd Keshabananda Das Memorial All India FIDE Rating Chess Championship (1900 and above rating) here on Wednesday. Five players shared second place with four points each and 10 players are in the third place with 3.5 points each. local players Utkal Ranjan Sahoo and WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty scored three points each by the end of fifth rounds.
Rajgangpur in Women Football Tourney semis
Bhubaneswar: Rajgangpur entered the semifinal by defeating Cuttack by 2-0 goal in the All Odisha State level Women Football Tournament at Ispat Stadium in Rourkela on Wednesday. After the barren first half, Satya netted double goals in the 45th and 55th and powered the team to register victory against Cuttack. Ajya Mohanty, Prasant Kumar Pal, T Mohan Rao, Chitrambada Patra and Bishnupriya Dash were the officials who conducted the match. In the semifinal match on Thursday, Sundargarh would meet Rajgangpur in the semifinal on Thursday. District Agriculture Officer (DAO) Rourkela Rabindra Kumar Mangal inaugurated the match as chief guest in presence of Manjula Ray, Principal, Deepika English Medium School as guest of honour, Sushant Ku Mohanty, Instructor & Assessor, AIFF as Special Guest and PSA officials Grogary Minz, Sushant Behera, Mahendra Mishra and Bikram Swain.
Matches ended in draw in Inter-School Football
Bhubaneswar: The two league matches of the day ended in 1-1 goal draw in the stipulated time of the 25th Kalinga Marine Vivekananda Memorial Inter-School Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground on Wednesday. The group-B league match between Bibekananda High School and Government High School IRC Village ended in 1-1 goal draw in the 50 minutes stipulated time. After the barren first half, IRC school got the lead through the goal by Sournia Hemram in the 47th minute and Surayakanta Nayak of Bibekananda scored the equaliser in the 49th minutes and bagged the man of the match award. Another league group-C match between Prabhujee English Medium School and Venketeswar English Medium School ended in 1-1 goal draw. The first half ended in goalless, Chandan Swain of Prabhujee netted the first goal in the 31st minutes and Samuyal leveled the score in the 47th minutes.Chandan of Prabhujee received the man of the match award. Chandrakanta Barik, Saroj Maharana, Kabi Nayak, Durga Acharay, Rajendra Barik and Durga Routaray conducted the matches as referees. Ramakrushna Sikhya Kendra and SAI International School would meet Xavier School Khandagiri and Vikash School of Khandagiri respectively.