State powerlifters leave for national meet
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s six powerlifters left from here on Thursday to participate in the Junior and Master National Men and Women Powerlifting (Equipped and Unequipped) Championship at Bhagwati Resorts in Jammu from January 5 to 10. Amit Thappa (53kg), Kiran Kumar Jena, Sudam Sahu (both 59 kg), Binod Majhi, Mohammad Abid (both 66kg) and lohit Kishore Bal (93kg) are the powerlifters who would participate in the unequipped events. They will be accompanied by lohit Kishore Bal and Sudam Sahu as manager and coach respectively.
Odisha Soft Tennis teams leave for National Meet
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Soft Tennis team left from here on Thursday to participate in the 12th Senior National Soft Tennis Championship schedule to be held at ludhiana from January 4 to 8. Jaysha Krushna Mangola (captain), A Venkat Rao, Rinku Pradhani, Rajib Kumar Sahu, Md Nasim, Nathan Bothra, Rakesh Ranjan Dhal and Satyabrata Samantary are the member of the men team. Similarly, Barsa Mallick, Rosalin Swain, Santoshi Dhal, Bandita Jena, Sushila Mundachina, Subhrata Pani, Minati Nayak and Subhasmita Kar are in the women team. Coach Md Azam, Siris Kumar Das and Kunal Biswal are the manager for the boys and girls teams respectively. Chief patron Manoranjan Mohanty, Odisha Soft Tennis Association president Bikash Chandra Pattnai, vice-president Jitendranath Patnaik and joint secretary Chinmaya Kumar Das wished the State team. .
AIFF Grassroots Course from Jan 9
Bhubaneswar: The All India Football Federation will be conducting the Grassroots’ Course at Cuttack from January 9 to 11. The instructor of All India Football Federation will be giving training to the coaches to develop the Grassroots’ Football in the State. The 3-day course covered topics ranging from Grassroots Philosophy, Importance of small sided games, role of educator, pedagogy, skills training, how to organise Grassroots festival and so on. The objective of the course is to create efficient coaches who could spread the philosophy of the grassroots within the State. Those who are interested to participate in this course should contact the office of Football Association of Odisha latest by Sunday (Contact – No - 0671-2301459/9124555666).
Odisha eves beat Maharashtra Super league
Bhubaneswar: Odisha eves defeated Maharashtra by four wickets in the Senior Women Elite Group One-Day Super league at Rajkot on Friday. With the win Odisha bagged four points. On the first match on Thursday, Odisha lost to Railway team. Batting first Maharashtra scored 164 runs by losing five wickets. T Hasabnis contributed unbeaten 67 runs. In reply, Madhusmita Behera of Odisha scored 66 runs and guided the team to reach the winning target in 50 overs by losing six wickets. Brief score: Maharashtra 164/5 in 50 overs (M Magre 37, T Hasabnis 67 n.o; S Mane 28; Ritu Singh 2/20) lost to Odisha 165/6 in 50 overs (Madhusmita Behera 66, Swagatika Rath 21;Snehal Pradhan 2/29,DP Vaidya 2/39) by 4 wickets.
All Odisha Utkal Open Tennis from Jan 9
Bhubaneswar: ACE Tennis Club is all set to host 2nd All Odisha Utkal Open Tennis Tournament schedule to held at Kalinga Stadium here from January 9 to 11, informed organizing chairman Dr Biswajit Mishra in a Press Meet here on Friday. The tournament is featuring total cash award of Rs 1.10 lakhs and the players would participate in the Under-14 boys singles, men’s single, men’s open doubles, women’s single and men’s veteran 40+, 50+ doubles categories. More than 300 payers are expected to participate in the three-day-long meet. The players registration would be done only by on-line at www.utkalopen.org, added Mishra. Among others, chief patron Prakash Chand Bhura, Chunnilal Patel, joint secretary Dr Gourav Das, executive body member, Dr Ritesh Ray, Dr Dhiraj Panda, Gaurang Chandra Behera and Vivek Tekriwal were present.