ECoR Eves Emerge Football Champions
Bhubaneswar: Superb goalkeepeing by Swarnamayee Samal helped East Coast Railway win the 5th Jayant Mohapatra Memorial Women’s One-day Football Tournament at Unit-VI Boys’ High School Ground here on Saturday. Samal affected three diving saves in the penalty shootout as the railway side beat Government Sports Hostel in the final by 2-0 goals. The summit clash went to the tie-breaker after play in the regulation time ended in goalless draw. In the penalty shootout, Riki Patra and Pratima Minz scored for railway, while all four sports hostel players failed in their attempts. Altogether four city-based teams participated in the tournament, which was organized by Unit-VI Athletic Association. Earlier in the semifinals, Sports Hostel crushed Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS) 3-0, while East Coast Railway edged out Urmila Football Academy 1-0.
Subhaprava Rout scored twice and Sasmita Ekka struck once for Sports Hostel, while the all-important goal for East Coast Railway was netted by Pratima Minz. Urmila FA finished third, beating KISS 3-2 via tie-breaker in the play-off match. Champions East Coast Railway received a cash prize of Rs 4,000 and runners-up Sports Hostel were given Rs 3,000. Former Minister Padmanav Behera handed over the trophy at the closing ceremony. Former India women football team coach Mohammad Sahid Jabbar, Unit-VI Athletic Association president Tapan Kumar Mohanty, vice-president Prafulla Mishra, secretary Dilip Das and Bhubaneswar Athletic Association joint-secretary Naba Ranjan Patnaik were present on the occasion. Sasmita Ekka, Tikina Samal (both Sports Hostel), Swarnamayee Samal, Manisha Panna (East Coast Railway) won the prizes as player of the tournament, best forward, best goalkeeper and best defender respectively. Before the start of the tournament, players and organizing officials observed one-minute silence as a respect to former Orissa Football Association secretary Suvendu Patra, who passed away at Cuttack earlier in the day. Unit-VI Athletic Association, in association with Special Olympics Bharat-Odisha, will stage a seve-a-side exhibition football match, involving mentally challenged and non-deseable players at Unit-VI High School ground on Sunday.
ex-FAO Secretary Suvendu Patra passes away
Bhubaneswar: The Football Association of Odisha (FAO) expresses its deep condolence on the sad and untimely demise of former secretary Suvendu Patra who passed away on Saturday. He was around 74yrs old. He has very richly contributed for the development of football in our State. He has represented our State in the National Senior Men Football Championship for Santosh Trophy in 1967.His able administration of various games and sports of our State will all ways be remembered. FAO secretary Sanjay Behera and all the office bearers of the association of Odisha have expressed their heartfelt condolence on the sudden demise of Suvendu Patra . President , Secretary and members of Bhubaneswar Athletic Association deeply condole the sad demise of Suvendu Patra, one of the most versatile Sportsman of the State. It is a great loss to the Sports fraternity of Odisha. Two minutes of silence was observed during the 11th Gati Krushna Memorial Football league to-day.
29 women inmates flee Sports Hostel
Bhubaneswar: 29 women hockey players of Bhubaneswar Sports Hostel missing from the hostel on Saturday morning all the players are the resident of Sundargarh District. Sources alleged that, due to inhuman behaviour of the hostel in-charge and low quality food forced us to leave the sports hostel. As we belong to minority community and tribal’s several times we have been requested the hostel in charge to leave us on Sunday morning to go for prayer but he has denied. In between the players reached Rourkela and meet the ADM and informed the State Sports and Youth Services Department took a decision to shift the hockey excellence hostel from Rourkela to Bhubaneswar they never asked us. As they have shifted us the Department must do alternative arrangement for our education. Now we are studying in Rourkela and staying at Bhubaneswar. The million dollar question is how they could able to disappear from the hostel in presence of all the coaches and the security in the morning. When a single biker cannot enter the stadium as the security is so strong. How 29 players mange to cross the stadium gates.
Padmini suffers defeat in Women Chess
Bhubaneswar: In 9th round, In the top board International Master Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (rating 2314)of Air India with white colour demolished Odisha’s hope WGM Padmini Rout (rating 2354) after 66 moves in the 41st National Women challenger at Peddem Sports Complex, Peddem,Mapusa ,Goa on Saturday. In the 2nd board WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty (lIC,Odisha, rating 2231) playing with e4 with white pieces lost against International Master Nisha Mahota after 42 moves. In the 17th board current State women champion Smaraki Mohanty (rating 1806) with white colour defeated R Dibya lakshmi(rating 1895) of Tamil Nadu after 41 moves. In the 19th board Sunyasakta Satpathy (rating 1828) with white colour destroyed Aishwarya Thorat (rating 1468) in 19 moves in a convincing fashion. In the 50th board Sonali Mishra with black pieces lost against rated Alaina J J Pereira (rating 1281). After 9th round IM Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi leads solely with 8 points. Top seed Padmini Rout with 6.5 points with 10 players maintaining jointly 4th position. Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Sunyasakta Satpathy and Smaraki Mohanty are in jointly 5th position with 6 points with 10 others are securing 16, 20 and 25 rank respectively. On Sunday in 10th & penultimate round in the 4th board Padmini Rout will play with black colour against WIM Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa . In 9th board Kiran Manisha Mohanty will play with white colour against WFM Savant Riya of Goa. A total of 122 players with 92 rated players in which 2 IMs, 6 WGMs, 1 WIM & 7 WFMs are participating in the meet.