Rourkela Football league kicked off
Bhubaneswar: Rourkela Football league (RFl) first ever its kind being organised by Koel Club, Rourkela in association with Rourkela Sports Association (RSA) was inaugurated by Rourkela Steel Plant CEO GS Prasad at Ispat Stadium in Rourkela on Sunday in a colorful atmosphere in presence of Koel Club President Jiten Mohanty and RSA President Mihir Ray.
In the first match Rajgangpur defeated Meenamandali Sector-7 by 1-0 goal. After the barren first half, Dinesh lakra scored the sole goal in the 33rd minute and powered the team to register victory. PK Mohanty, PK Jena, Vim Khetri and Keshab Chandra Pradhan were the officials who conducted the match. Koel Club officials Dilip Mohanty, Prasant Das, RSA officials Bhaskar Nanda and Pratap Padhee were also present. Source said total eight teams are participating in the week long tournament and the final match will be played on 21 September 2014.
State kho kho body felicitate players
Bhubaneswar: State Kho Kho Association on Sunday felicitated five boys and four girls in a function at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack.
Chandrakant Panda, Manasa Ranjan Behera, Sukhalal Hemram and Subhendu Das are the five boys and Sasmita Patra, Sasmita Nath Sharma, Puspa Marandi and Madhusmita Ojha are the four girls felicitated on the occasion. The association also felicitated sports journalist Susanta Kumar Swain, Benudhar Das and Sushant Kumar Mohanty. Coach Kalandi Charan Raout and Manoranjan Behera also felicitated on the occasion. 62 state referees got State level certificates. OCA secretary Asrbad Behera, association president Janardhan Dash, vice-president Nalini Kumar Das, Tusharkant Ghose, joint secretary Rushinath Sahu, Minati Patnaik, treasure Dr K Chitra, secretary Pradyumna Mishra and Chudhury Partha Sarathi Mohapatra were present.
Odisha girls almost out of Chess medal race
Bhubaneswar: In 10th and penultimate round, in the 4th board top seed Padmini Rout(rating 2354) with black colour drew with World U-8 (2006 and 2007) Girls champion WIM Ivana Maria Furtado(rating 2182) of Goa after 33 moves in the 41st National Women challenger at Peddem Sports Complex, Peddem,Mapusa ,Goa on Sunday.
In 9th board Kiran Manisha Mohanty(rating 2231, lIC,Odisha) with white colour drew with WFM Savant Riya of Goa(rating 1921) after 52 moves. In the 12th board Smaraki Mohanty (rating 1806) with black colour defeated WFM Swati Mohota(rating 2027) of West Bengal after 65 moves . In the 13th board Sunyasakta Satpathy (rating 1828) with black colour drew with WFM G K Monnisha (rating 2078) of Tamil Nadu after 57 moves. In the 51st board Sonali Mishra with black pieces lost from Niti Gupta(rating 1404) of Maharastra . After 10th round IM Nisha Mohota joined with overnight leader IM Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi with 8.5 points. Both are in joint 1st position. Top seed Padmini Rout & current state women champion Smaraki Mohanty with 7 points with 9 players maintaining jointly 3rd position. Kiran Manisha Mohanty & Sunyasakta Satpathy both has scored 6.5 points with a rank of 17th and 24th position respectively. Sonali Mishra has scored 3 points with 113th position.
On Monday in 11th and last round in the 5th board Padmini Rout will play against WFM M.Mahalakshmi of Tamil Nadu, in the 6th board Smaraki Mohanty will play against WIM Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa , in the 9th board Kiran Manisha Mohanty will play against WFM Tarini Goyal , in 12th board Sunyasakta Satpathy will play against Harshita Guddanti & in the 59th board Sonali Mishra will play against Jaiswal Mitali .
Birakishore bags Sundeep memorial chess title
Bhubaneswar: Birakishore Behera scored seven points by the end of eighth round and emerged champion of the 7th Sundeep Mohanty Memorial Open Chess Championship, being organised by Bhubaneswar Chess Association at Secretariat Recreation Club here on Sunday. Manas Ranjan Parida and Pravat Kumar Ojha scored seven and six points and finished second and third respectively. Bansidhar Bhoi and Swarnalata Tripathy emerged best veteran and women player respectively. Secretariat Recreation Club secretary Managovinda Dalei distributed the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, BCA secretary Arati Bijoy Mohanty, Vice president Bansidhar Bhoi, joint secretary Sitendu Rajguru, Surindernath Mohanty, chief arbiter Debasis Panigrahi, Pravat Nath, Rabindra Mohanty and Soumendra Mohanty were present.
Sasmita guides India to thrash Maldives
Bhubaneswar: Odia women footballer Sasmita Mallick netted five goals and powered the Indian women’s football team to open its campaign at the Asian Games by mauling Maldives 15-0 on Sunday.
Winger Sasmita Malik and midfielder Kamala Devi struck five times while striker Bala Devi scored twice. Captain Bembem Devi, striker Prameshwori Devi and defender Ashalata Devi also scored a goal each in a completely lopsided Group ‘A’ match.
With this win, India is virtually through to quarterfinals in the women’s football competition which has begun a week before the opening ceremony of the Asian Games.