Semifinalists spotted in Women Football
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar-A and Cuttack would meet Kendrapada and Bhubaneswar-B respectively in the semifinal round of the 13th Senior Women Inter District Football Championship for PC Behera Trophy-2014 at Sohela and Padampur at Bargarh on Sunday.
Bhubaneswar-A thrashed Bargarh by 9-0 goals at Sohela venue. The flood gate opened by Pratima Minz in the fourth minute and lochana Munda netted double goals in the 10th and 20th minutes. Janjali Sahoo, Bananja Kabiraj , Riki Patra , laxmi Munda , Deogi Murmu and Bijay laxmi Sahoo of the winning team netted a goal each in the 22nd,38th,44th,46th,59th and 62nd minutes respectively. In another match at seame venue, Kendrapada defeated Jharsuguda by 2-0 goals. Jyosna Malik and Pratima Senapati netted a goal each at 31stand 58th minutes respectively. Jyosna Mallick of the winning team received the women of the match award. The officials who conducted the match were Dillip Rout, Nabin Nayak, Nityananda Meher, Ritali Barala and Santosh Pradhan as referees and PK Mohanty as match commissioner. Bhubaneswar-B edged out Mayurbhanj by 2-1 goals at Padampur Venue. lizarani Sahoo draw the first blood in the 13th minute and hermate Purnima Rao double the lead in the 61st minute. Phulamani Tudu of the Mayurbhanj scored the solitary goal in 68th minute. Sasmita Ekka of Cuttack netted three goals in the 10th,13th and 38th minutes respectively and powered the team to beat Balasore by 5-0 goals. Sakina Nisha and Gayatri Mallick netted a goal in the 35th and 45th minutes respectively. Subrat Purohit, Suresh Das, Panchanan Patra, Sudipta Das and Chitrambada Patra were officiated the match and Jugal Chandra Das as the match commissioner.
Women footballers get rousing welcome
Bhubaneswar: Srijana Tamang, Jabamani Tudu, Subha Darshini Patra, Eva Panna, Sasmita Behera and assistant coach Sradhanjali Samantary got rousing welcome here on Friday after their arrival from the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship (Qualifiers) held at Dhaka in Bangladesh. “We lost the first match but after that won three in great fashion. The girls showed a lot of character and we can take a lot of positives from this tournament,” said assistant coach Sradhanjali Samantary. The Indian girls finished second in the group with nine points from four matches, three behind qualifiers Iran who topped the table with full 12 points from four matches. Needing to win in the last game and counting on Bangladesh to beat Iran, India stole a march over Jordan in a high-scoring match. Bangladesh in the next match went down 1-2 to Iran. We lost the match against Iron by 1-2 goals, but there after we convincingly register victory against Bangladesh 2-1, UAE 12-0 and Jordan by 6-3 goals, said Samantary.
2 Odisha players in National U-25 chess
Bhubaneswar: Two Odisha players are taking part in the 23rd National U-25 chess championship-2014, which beings at Chennai on Saturday, being organized by Tamil Nadu State chess Association. In the seven day long nine round meet total 77 players are participating. In the inaugural round both Odisha player, Soumya Ranjan Sahoo(rating 1540) lost against Kishan Gangolli and Aswini Kumar Sahu(rating 1397) got one point by walk over.
Odisha’s 13 juniors players in National U-13 Chess
Bhubaneswar: A 13-member Odisha team is participating in the 28th National U-13 Open chess championship-2014, which kickstarted at Bistupur in Jharkhand on Saturday. The 10-day-long 11 rounds tournament is being organized by Jamsedpur Chess Academy. In the boys category total 134 players are participating in which five Odisha players would fight for the top honours. FM Rakesh Kumar Jena (rating 2164), FM Sankalp Baliarsingh (rating 1832), Ansuman Samal (rating 1757), Diptanshu Ranjan Swain (rating 1755) and Mahitosh Dey(rating 1364) are the Odisha players. Similarly in the girls event 94 players including seven Odisha players are participating. WFM Rutumbara Bidhar (rating 1808),WFM Saina Salonika (rating 1765), Anwesha Mishra (rating 1669), Sweta Senapaty (rating 1623), Anisha Mishra(rating 1463), Anontyoya Chatterji (rating 1244) and Shibanee Mohapatra (rating 1050) are the Odisha girls.