Biswa Ranjan appointed as HIl referee
Bhubaneswar: Biswa Ranjan Sarangi, National umpire of Odisha, Cuttack has been appointed as judge in the coming Hero Hockey India league which will be inaugurated on January 22, at Kalinga Hockey Stadium here. Biswa Ranjan becomes the first Odia judge in HHIl tournament. He will judge five important matches to be played at Kalinga Hockey Stadium.
Odisha finish 2nd in Santosh Trophy East Zone Gr-B
Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered one win and two draws in the east zone group-B league matches and finished second in the group of the 69th National Football Championships for Santosh Trophy-2015 at Jamshedpur on Tuesday. In the last league match between Odisha and Railways ended in goalless draw on Tuesday. Earlier, Odisha defeated Chhattisgarh by 0-3 goals and drawn with Sikkim by 1-1 goal draw. Railways topped the group by registering two win and one draw.
Yuva Open Basketball from January 22
Bhubaneswar: Yuva Club is all set to host Yuva Open Basketball Tournament at Sahidnagar here from January 22 to 25, said secretary Manoranjan Garabadu in a Press Meet here on Tuesday. Altogether12 teams would be divided in four groups to play the league round matches. Top team of each group would play the semifinal matches. The champion team would receive the trophy along the cash award of Rs 10,000. The runners-up and second runners-up would receive Rs8,000 and Rs5,000 respectively.
Group-A: Shining Star, Sports Hostel (Bhubaneswar), The Warriors, Group-B: KBA, Cuttack Hoopsters, BBlC, Group-C: Yuva Club, MBC, 120 Battalion, Group-D: KIIT, Rovers Athletic Club, SAI Hostel (Cuttack).
Kendrapada win in Sumit Bose U-16 Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Kendrapada defeated Koraput by 113 runs in the two day long super league match of the Sumit Bose Trophy U-16 Inter District Cricket Tournament at Sunshine Ground in Cuttack on Tuesday. With the win Kendrapada bagged five points. In other league matches between, Jajpur, Baragarh and Sundargarh draw with Jharsuguda, Bhubaneswar-B and Bhubaneswar-A respectively. On the basis of first innings lead, Jajpur, Baragarh and Sundargarh gathered three points each.
Brief Score: Barabati Stadium: Jajpur 273/10 in 89 overs (Nishikanta Rout 161, Harapad Jena 45, Abhisek Routray 3/42, Ranjeet Mahanta 3/69) draw with Jharsuguda 269/10 in 86.4 overs (Md.Saha Arman 96, Roshan Prasad 58; Soumendra Rout 4/46, Nishikanta Rout 4/74) .
SCB Medical College Ground: Bargarh 263/10 in 81.5 overs (Ajaya Kar 145 n.o; Asutosh Kumar 30;Suryakant Samal 7/89) and 41/1 in 8 overs (Sipun Dehuri 23) draw with BBSR-B 205/10 in 85.5 overs (Farhat Khan 48, Manas Ranjan Nayak 28, Soumya Sourav Kumar 26; Sachin Pawar 7/67, Sipun Dehuri 2/73).
Bidanasi Ground: Sundargarh 228/9 (declared) in 65.4 overs (Sarat Minz 64, Bikash Choudhury 51, Md.Afsar Alam 49; Ansuman Sinha 4/52, Sourav Gond 4/66) and 115/10 in 46.1 overs (Bikash Choudhury 21, Md. Sehebaz Zamal 21; Sourav Gouda 4/33, Ansuman Sinha 3/17, Susil Barik 2/25) draw with BBSR-A 220/10 in 89.4 overs (Surag Das 44, Sisir Behera 42, Subham Satrujit 32; Biswajit Mohanty 3/70, Md.Rasik Siraz 4/46) and 31/1 in 6 overs.
Sunshine Ground: Kendrapara 209/10 in 75.6 overs (Sudat Chandan 65 n.o; Rajat Das 60, Suryakant Jati 45; Gourav Dash 5/42, Abhisek Mohanty 2/19, Sk.Bukhari 2/52) and 92/10 in 57.1 overs (Sekhar Das 23, Sunil Baraj 22; Sk.Bukhari 3/33, Abhilash Baradwaj 2/5, Ansuman Patnaik 2/6, Abhisek Mohanty 2/40) beat Koraput 126/10 in 45.1 overs (Jimmy Harizan 44; Sekhar Dash 7/23, Aayed Aman Alli 2/25) and 62/10 in 16 overs (Sk.Bukhari 17; Sayed Aman Ali 4/4, Sunil Baraj 2/21) by 113 runs.