Chief Minister felicitates Women Rugby team
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik felicitated National Games gold winning Odisha women rugby team here on Friday. For the first time Women 7-a-sides rugby event included in the 35th National Games at Kerala and Odisha eves created a history winning gold medals by defeating Maharashtra by 17-5 points. It is a matter of great motivation for our women team, said secretary Upendra Kumar Mohanty. In the final, Hupi Majhi of the Odisha netted three try in the 6th,10th and 16th minutes respectively and hermate Meerarani Hembram scored two points through conversion in the 16th minute. Annapurna Bothate of Maharashtra scored the solitary try for Maharashtra in the 20th minute. Among others, State Sports and Youth Services Minister Sudam Marandi, Odisha Rugby Football Association (ORFA) president MlA Priyadarshi Mishra and secretary Upendra Kumar Mohanty were present.
Cuttack-A emerge U-19 Cricket Champion
Bhubaneswar: Cuttack-A emerged champion by defeating Bhubaneswar-A by 59 runs in the four-day-long U-19 Inter-District Cricket Tournament at Sunshine Ground in Cuttack on Friday. Cuttack-A team being the champion of the tournament received the champion trophy and a cash award of Rs 15,000 where as Bhubaneswar-A team received the runners-up trophy and a cash award of Rs 10,000.
OCA secretary Asirbad behera, Sanjay Raul, former indian cricketer of the State graced the occassion and gave away prizes to the winners. Among others, OCA treasurer Satya Mohanty, joint secretary Sanjib Dutta, Juvenile Club secretary Nirban Roy, U-19 coach Daniel Rout, Bidyut Kumar Naya and all the junior selectors of OCA were present during the occassion.
Brief Score: Sunshine Ground: Cuttack-A 292/10 in 90.4 overs (Soubhagya Mishra 53, Venkatesh Vende 36, Md.Akram 34, D.Ashok Rao 37, Jamala Bhanjan Mahapatra 35; Satryajit Sabat 3/57, Swagat Routray 3/115) and 129/10 in 72.2 overs (Prateek Tripathy 26, Prateek Venkatesh Vende 45; Satyajit Sabat 4/29, Sandeep Pattnaik 3/42) beat Bhubaneswar-A 254/10 in 120.3 overs (Raghunath Malla 71, Sandeep Patnaik 90,Rohit Sagar 28 n.o; Asotosh Das 2/27, Jamala Bhanjan Mahapatra 3/51, D.Ashok Rao 2/19) and 108/10 in 40.1 overs (Debasish samantray 52; Jamala Bhanjan Mahapatra 5/37, Suman Mohanty 2/54) by 59 runs.
Sradhanjali appointed Asst coach of U-14 team
Bhubaneswar: All India Football Federation (AIFF) has been appointed Odisha’s women footballer Sradhanjali Samantary as the assistant coach of the National U-14 Girls Football Team. Samnatray will be responsible for imparting training and coaching to the National U- 14 Girls selection trail camp schedule to be held at Gandhinagar (Gujarat) from March 4. She will also travel with the National U-14 girls football team for the U-14 Girls Regional Championship to be held at Kathmandu (Nepal) schedule to be played from April 18 to 25. She was also the coach of the silver medal winning State team in the recently concluded 35th National Games in the event of women football held at Kerala and prior to that she was also the coach of Odisha State Senior Women Football team in the 20th National Senior Women Football Championship held at Assam and Odisha was runners up. FAO secretary Sanjay Behera has congratulated her for this National assignment.
Odisha finish 3rd in India Postal Football meets
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Postal team finished third by defeating Uttar Pradesh circle by 5-0 goals in the28th All India Postal Football Tournament held at Goa on Friday. Mahesh scored hattrick goals and hismate Sakti Singh and DS Bothra scored a goal each and Odisha edged out UP by 5-0 goal. Ramesh Nayak of Odisha goalkeeper bagged player of the tournament award. Earlier, Odisha lost to Kerala in the semifinal. In the quarterfinal, Odisha postal team defeated Maharashtra by 3-0 goals on Wednesday. Sakti Singh, Santosh Naik and DS Badra of the postal team scored a goal each. Earlier on Tuesday, Odisha edged out Tamil Nadu by 1-0 goal. Mahesh Kumar Sahu scored the all important goal.