SOA Varsity announces team for East Zone meet
Bhubaneswar: SOA University will field teams in four sporting disciplines in the East Zone Inter-University championship to be held at the KIIT University from September 27, according to an University Press Release. The teams will compete in volleyball, tennis, table tennis and chess events, the release said. The teams: Adesh Ranjan Mallick, Amrit Ranjan Das, Santosh Acharya, Soumyajit Panigrahi, Jayendra Sai Kovur, Swastik Nishan (Tennis), Pallab Bera, Santosh Srinivas, Abhilash Balabantaray, Ashutosh Pradhan, Sanat Kumar Barik, Abhishek (Table Tennis) and Ketan Kumar, Sourav Gupta, Abhisek Kumar, Sumit Kakkar and Amit Kumar Singh (Chess).
A 12-member team will represent the University in Volleyball comprising Soumya Ranjan Dey, Abhilash Pati, Sanjeev Kumar Singh, Rohit Pal, Sandeep Rout, Debi Prasad Gajendra, Pratyush Ranjan Tarania, Manas Pradhan, Pragbansh Panda, Ankit Singh Thakur, Suraj Acharya and Sanjeeb Behera.
Unit-6 win in Gati Krushna Div-A Football
Bhubaneswar: Unit-6 Athletic Association defeated Kishore Club by 1-0 goal in the league round match of the 11th Gati Krushna Memorial Div-A Football league at Unit-1 High School Play Ground here on Thursday. The all important goal scored by Malaya Nayak in the 33rd minute. Sekhawat Khan, Durga Acharya, Sudipta Das and Pradip Kumar Nayak were officiated the match as referees. In the league round match on Friday, AG Recreation Club would meet Director of Sports.
State Sepak Takraw selection trial held
Bhubaneswar: Senior State Sepak Takraw selection trial matches held at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Wednesday, at Sepak takraw Complex. Cuttack City, Cuttack District, Cuttack Sadar Christ Collage, Raghunathjew College were the five men’s team participated and Cuttack City, Cuttack Sadar, Cuttack District, Bhadrak, Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur and SB Womens College were seven women’s team took part in the selection trail. Cuttack City emerged champion in the women event by defeating Bhadrak by 2-1 sets. Similarly, in the men’s final, Cuttack City thrashed Raghunathjew College by 2-1 goals and bagged the title. The inaugural match earlier in the morning was graced by OSSTA president Chandra Sekhar Samal and vice-president Md Gulfam. OSSTA adviser Nityananda Das distributed the prizes in presence of yoga teacher Biswa Ranjan Behera. Total 20 probable from senior women players and 12 men players have been selected to attend the final camp.
Ranjan, Biswaranjan to take part in Gateball meet
Bhubaneswar: Ranjan Kumar Nanda and Biswaranjan Mishra of Odisha left on Wednesday to participate in the 11th World Gateball Championship at Niigata City Athletic Stadium, in Japan to be held from September 26 to 28. Altogether 96 teams from 20 countries would participate in the world meet. Indian Gateball Union secretary Bikash Chandra Patnaik wished the players. World Gateball Championship is held once in every four years. This time Japan is hosting the game (Japan has hosted the 8th Championship in 2002). Four Indian teams would participate in the meet